In the end of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the wretch that the main character has become, dies miserably. In a tale of anguish, the reader is face to face with the problems surrounding Frankenstein after he meddles with the impenetrable force that is life and death. Frankenstein meddles, and hopes to create life, but he creates a transient existence of a horrible corpse. Frankenstein seeks love and affection in a plaything, and in asking for something intangible, he is setting the creature up for disappointment.

Humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. The book focuses on the outcome of one man's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of a horrific creature. Frankenstein is overreaching life's bounds after being a scientific protege. As he says, ".Whence I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?" (Shelley, p. 30).

And in pursuit of knowledge of life and deaths' principles, he is amply rewarded. He embarks on enacting a human form. His fervor knew no bounds, No one can con

The creature wreaks havoc, killing more of Frankenstein's loved ones. The carnage leaves Frankenstein a shell of a man- he is without happiness. One could say that he is becoming like to his enemy, in any case, his problems have reach a critical mass. Everyone dear to Frankenstein is gone, so he deals with it in the best possible "massive retaliation" kind of way. Like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Frankenstein is doomed to travel the world in pursuit of his creation. The death of either the creature or himself will obliterate and relieve all the sufferings- the problems- that he has been forced to endure:

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"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe....Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room. ( Shelley, p. 35)

After quitting Geneva, he traces the steps of the creature. He follows him to the most detestable ends of the earth. Not to say he hounds him, for the creature engages in cat-and-mouse in the ultimate game of retribution. Frankenstein despairs:

"Oh! when will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the daemon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die, and he yet live?...His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery, and fiend-like malice. Hear him not; call on the names of [ names of those the creature killed]...and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near, and direct the steel aright." (Shelley, p. 155)

This is Frankensteins' problem: Within minutes of creating, he rejects the form for it aesthetic flaws. As Frankenstein says

Frankenstein's problem is not solved until it dies; The creature will not be satiated, happy, or at ease, until death.

Yet, perhaps a brief sliver of parental obligation compels Frankenstein to listen to the creatures' horrid tale. In the creature's loathsome words, he merely justifies that had Frankenstein not have been passionately immersed in the creation of a superior being, gigantic and repulsive as a result, all his sufferings would cease to exist. Frankenstein vows to pursue the creature, to rid mankind and the world of his troublesome presence. The first step to solving a problem is acknowled

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