Research Paper on:
Revenge in Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

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dangers of scientific arrogance and perhaps even scientific knowledge. It is also a story about theological issues wherein man does not take responsibility for his own actions. It can be  perceived as a novel concerning the complexities of parenting and the abandonment of children. And, it is also a novel whose theme speaks of revenge. In the following paper we  briefly examine the destructive power of revenge in Shelleys novel. Revenge The most prominent aspect of revenge in this story concerns the monster who seeks a sort of revenge  on Frankenstein for making him and then abandoning him. AS the monster develops and reads the works of his creator he begins to see his miserable position. "I was poor,  helpless, miserable wretch" (Shelley NA). He remembers "too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers" (Shelley NA). In this we see the slow development  of the monsters position and how he will eventually come to seek revenge. The most obvious form of his revenge, a revenge that is destructive and lonely, comes when  he promises Frankenstein that he will kill Victors bride on their wedding night if he does not do something for the monster. Victor tries to ignore his promise to the  monster and the monster does as he promised, killing Victors new wife. "Victors ignorance towards his creation, leads to the monster to resort to violence and revenge" (Compare the theme  of outsiders in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells). From another perspective we can perhaps see that Victor himself is subtly involved in a  sort of revenge as he ignores his creation. He is perhaps angry at the promises that science offered him, angry at his own arrogance and ignorance and feels that he