Frankenstein
By: Mary Shelley
"Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition...I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed (Page 162)." As the novel closes the themes, lessons, and morals presented throughout once more are suggested and challenged. While the reader seeks answers, they are left with questions and dual emotions. In the final pages, Victor accepts his death and passes on to the next life while the creature presents his remorse and purpose of actions. Through it all, the reader still feels complexity as they fight to understand and classify Victor and the creature as either good or bad. Yet, in analyzing such, I find a theme more desolate and unclear than the others such as the caution of knowledge and ambition. In my own search to understand the characters' dispositions, I feel that Mary Shelley leaves the truth untouched and open so as to suggest the openness required in an honorable search of knowledge. The openness correlates to relationships to perhaps suggest an aphorism of society as culture is often quick to classify people as good or bad when all poses characteristics of both and seek good. While the novel is presented as a horror story and nightmare, I think it is intended as an anecdote of an unconstrained and unchecked culture and mind.
"Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition...I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed (Page 162)." As the novel closes the themes, lessons, and morals presented throughout once more are suggested and challenged. While the reader seeks answers, they are left with questions and dual emotions. In the final pages, Victor accepts his death and passes on to the next life while the creature presents his remorse and purpose of actions. Through it all, the reader still feels complexity as they fight to understand and classify Victor and the creature as either good or bad. Yet, in analyzing such, I find a theme more desolate and unclear than the others such as the caution of knowledge and ambition. In my own search to understand the characters' dispositions, I feel that Mary Shelley leaves the truth untouched and open so as to suggest the openness required in an honorable search of knowledge. The openness correlates to relationships to perhaps suggest an aphorism of society as culture is often quick to classify people as good or bad when all poses characteristics of both and seek good. While the novel is presented as a horror story and nightmare, I think it is intended as an anecdote of an unconstrained and unchecked culture and mind. 
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