Frankenstein- Blog 10

Death is a major theme in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. There are 6 deaths of major characters in the story. It is all for the same or similar reason and it all begins with Victor. If Victor would have never created the creature, William, Justine, Henry, Elizabeth, and Victor's father would have never died. If it were not for the creature's loneliness and Victor's possible creation of a mate, there would have been some sort of salvation for some of these characters. It is in the last couple scenes of the book that we that the creature has also caused the death of Victor. We finish off the story with the creature wanting to end his own life for all of the evil he has caused. "'This is also my victim!' he exclaimed; 'in his murder my crimes are consummated  the miserable series of my being is wound to is close!'" (Shelley, 163). It is this scene that strikes the most importance. We see that death has been a major theme and it is now that the creature, the cause of all of this, realizes all of the damage he has done and that there is nothing to do but end his own life.