He could want to obtain divine power or because his mother died, he could want to never die - only live. Never loving another, never having children keeps people safe - you can't be hurt by what you never had. But! Its better to have love and lost than to have never loved at all.
Poems relating to Frankenstein
-Prometheus Unbound
-Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The story begins at a wedding as an old mariner tells a wedding guest his tale. During a sea voyage, he killed an albatross, after which bad things begean to happen; he was forced to watch his friends die and in the end, he wore his guilt, the dead albatross, around his neck. One night, as the moon rose, he saw the beauty of the evil surrounding him. Afterwards, he was finally able to leave but forced to retell his story. The mariner killed the bird because of his love for the bird. True, deep love is scary, making a person want to flee. It can't hurt you if it's dead, so people kill things before it can hurt them. When you love someobody, you're completely bound to them, regardless of what they feel; they have the potential to hurt you.
-Alastor
The poet "spurned nature's choicest gifts" in that he didn't acknowledge the maiden when he had the chance. Perhaps he didn't want his dream to become real because the maiden could be short of perfection or be taken from him
Victor doesn't go out in nature, which had brought him great joy; he ignores his friends and family, even his betrothed Elizabeth. He too "spurned nature's choicest gifts." What made him neglect nature and ignore his friends?
His creation finally comes alive, and he sees how horrible the monster was; he used all the most beautiful parts but together they're ugly. He's horrified by the monster and flees the apartment, locking the monster in. Poor monster! He created the monster in order to bring back his mother or keep Elizabeth, a substitute for his mother, from dying. Victor is not afraid of losing her, but rather afraid of living in a world without her.
Victor fell ill and Clerval, his friend, nursed him back to health. "I became as cheerful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion." This is passive voice. Active voice would be: "Fate attacked me." He's an innocent bystander that fate took advantage of.
Just as before, he should have stood up for Justine instead of excusing himself. He didn't even try to help, even though he said he wanted to. "Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish." He only thinks of his pain, that he doesn't see other's pain, like Elizabeth's. He quotes Satan from Paradise Lost, the greatest sufferer in his fall from heaven.
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