Frankenstein: Theme and Summary

The theme of the story Frankenstein is that the pursuit of new knowledge isn't always he best idea all the time. This is prevalent through the story because at the beginning he waste half his life trying to find a way to bring a corpse back to life and he regrets that later on when he realizes he is alone and should go and find a wife. Then when he finally creates the monster he is excited at first but then grows scared of it when it starts destroying his lab, so he regrets making the monster then when his friend shows up he thinks that he is ill when he sees him, and this is when he starts to think that making this thing was a bad idea. This theme is really shown when the monster escapes and kills his the doctors brother, and he then wants to kill the monster, but at the same time protect his wife. Everything then comes to a boiling point when the monster kills his wife and the doctor wishes he could have killed the monster when had the chance but didn't. This changes him because he goes from being the guy that has hope and is always seeing the good in things to a dark former shadow of himself regretting ever even bringing this thing to life, as his only goal in life now live or die is to kill the thing, and exact revenge against the monster for killing all the people, but then kind of realizes that if he dies then the monster has no reason to carry on either as he wants revenge too, so he decides that it is his time and dies in his sleep causing the monster to commit suicide. So in the end the pursuit of knowledge ended in tragedy on all ends as everyone dies at the end, and there is no happy ending, to this story just it ended. A summary of the story is that Dr. Victor Frankenstein from a young age was fascinated with science and after a series of sad events happens he ends up becoming a scientific doctor and reads books and does research on the science of corpse reanimation. Then he is able to bring the monster to life, but he afraid of what the thing can do so he locks it up in a room were the monster eventually escapes. Fast forward a bit and the doctor has found his brother was murdered by some unknown being and he knows it's the monster so he kind of goes on the hunt till the monster confronts him and ask him to make a bride for him but after the doctor realizes that he could have whole army, he stops and destroys causing the monster to kill all the people he cares for. Then this leads him to tracking down the monster in the north pole and dyeing before he could stop it , and the monster floats a way on an ice raft killing him self.
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