Before fully engaging one's mind on this topic by using the actual text of the novel its self it should be important for the reader to consider two things. The words from John Milton's Paradise Lost that appeared on the original cover of Frankenstein when it was first published in 1818 were: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I Solicit thee f

The book begins with a man by the name of Robert Walton writing letters to his sister describing his sailing journey as the captain of a vessel aiming for the North Pole. In the first letters to his sister, he goes to great depths to describe his desire for the "company of a man who could sympathize"(p.17) with him. He is lonely and prays for a companion out on the lonely seas where he finds no man that is "possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own" (p.17) he writes. It is in this isolation of friendlessness that Victor Frankenstein makes his appearance as the answer to Robert's prayers. By perfect coincidence Victor is found in the middle of a desolate iced over sea. Robert described him in one of his letters to his sister by saying "his limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering" (p.24). No matter how withered Victor Frankenstein was, he came as the answer to Robert's wish for a friend at sea. If staying with the theory that Victor is a God figure, then this scene shows the goodness of him, and how he can cure the madness of isolation by giving his companionship. In fact, Victor does become good friends with Robert. The most relevant and succinct description of Victor in Walton's words is "I never saw a more interesting creature"(p.25). Here we see the more compassionate and kind side of Victor as God. In the beginning one could deduce that he is a kind and answering being who comes to give a lonely man a friend in the most isolated of isolated places in the world, but as one sees as the story progresses, the same cries of loneliness come from his creation and he does not give the same pleasure of companionship. Instead he abandons him and leaves him to die. The motives for leaving him are where the previous conception of God (Victor) brought about in the beginning is

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