When he goes to university, Victor is encouraged by the professors who teach there. Unfortunately, Victor misuses his scientific knowledge and ability in a bid for personal glory. By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
In this mood of mind I betook myself to the mathematics and the branches of study appertaining to that science as being built upon secure foundations, and so worthy of my consideration. As he searches for knowledge, Victor studies several scientific disciplines. However, he quickly rejects all but those which he considers to be pure - among these are mathematics and natural philosophy what we today would call science. He gives up studying natural history ' as a deformed and abortive creation ' which, considering the Monster he will go on to create, is rather ironic.
Victor's ambition knows no bounds as he sets out to create life at any expense. He makes himself ill in the pursuit of his goals and puts achieving this ambition before the health and happiness of both himself and his family. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
As Victor dies, he realises that ambition and obsession has been his downfall. He warns Walton, who is also risking everything for scientific discovery, that he may be pursuing a foolish and misguided course of action. Victor is so caught up in the pursuit of knowledge and the creation of life that he feels invincible. He feels he should not have to justify his actions to anyone and that he alone has supreme power. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should claim theirs. Henry and Victor return to Victor's apartment to find the monster gone.
Victor finds the disappearance of his monster a source of joy and falls down in a fit of exhaustion from the release of anxiety over his creation. Henry spends the rest of the winter and spring nursing Victor back to health after the tumultuous fall. Henry advises Victor to write home, as a letter had recently arrived from his family in Geneva.
Chapter 5 is significant because it marks the beginning of the novel that Mary Shelley wrote during her now famous summer stay in the Lake Geneva region refer to the "Life and Background" section. The Gothic elements that can be found in this chapter are the grotesque description of the monster's features , the eerie environment Victor's lab at 1 a.
Also, this chapter builds fear in the reader, another big part of Gothic writing. The monster now begins to take shape, and Victor describes his creation in full detail as "beautiful" yet repulsive with his "yellow skin,""lustrous black, and flowing" hair, and teeth of "pearly whiteness. Here Shelley contrasts God's creation of Adam to Victor's creation of the monster. Victor sees his creation as beautiful and yet repugnant, versus the creation story taken from the Bible in which God sees his creation of Adam as "good.
In a distressed mental state, Victor falls into bed, hoping to forget his creation. He dreams of wandering the streets of Ingolstadt and seeing Elizabeth through the haze of the night.
During the dream, Elizabeth then turns into his mother, Caroline, whom he pictures being held in his own arms. While holding his mother, he then sees worms start to crawl out of the folds of her burial shroud to touch him.
Why does Frankenstein run away from his Monster? Why does the Monster kill William? How does Frankenstein figure out that the Monster killed William? Why does Frankenstein first agree to make his Monster a companion? Why do the townspeople accuse Frankenstein of murdering Clerval? Why does Frankenstein leave Elizabeth alone on their wedding night? Does the Monster die? Does Frankenstein learn from his mistake in creating the Monster?
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