Textbook: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - Norton Critical Edition (2nd) Sorry, I can't provide the textbook right now. For your Frankenstein essay, analyze the text of Frankenstein, particularly in how...

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Title: The source of the failure, guilt, and blame in Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein revolves between the boundaries of sin, guilt and evil. The major conflict between Victor and his monster is not the only conflict being portrayed within the story line. The inherent conflict however is between man’s pursuit of knowledge and the destruction it often can lead to if left unattended. The protagonist Victor, an ardent worshipper of science is rebellious children that break off from his father’s pursuit of intellectual knowledge. In the search for the elixir of life, Victor goes from a scientist to an alchemist bring life to a creature made of dead and decaying flesh.
The boundaries of sin dissolve when Victor with the limited means of science and technology that the world has provided carries out his search to create life, the ultimate fantasy of every human on Earth, the will to play God. Although his father has warned Victor, Alphonse he does not seen to be able to disassociate from the grip of his passions saying, “Tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination”. The question arises on whether Victor’s obsession with creating life stems out from losing his mother in early life and almost losing Elizabeth. The general conflict between Victor’s personal ambition and the restraints of the society is well thought out in this story.
The tragedy of both the protagonist and antagonist is dependent on two major decisions. The first is to create something that it not up to the realm of science and the second is to abandon the creation when it does not suit the creator himself. Why did Victor pursue the elixir of life if he did not want to face consequences for his decision? Throughout the story, Victor is vocal about the grief the monster has created for him, recounting the killings of his brother and wife, being chased...