The first transitional phase showed Frankenstein as a lover of arts who became obsessed in attaining power over humanity by creating a human through scientific experiment. As a lover of arts, Frankenstein had displayed interest in the languages and various human cultures. As a student, he had shown aptitude for exploring cultures other than his own, and had shown delight in his discoveries of the different nature of other people's cultures, and this became evident in his admiration for Clerval (53-4):.

             The Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit languages engaged his attention, and I was easily induced to enter on the same studies. Idleness had ever been irksome to me, and now that I wished to fly from reflection and hated my former studies.Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome!.

             This passage reflects Frankenstein's outburst of emotion while expressing his admiration for the arts. At this stage, he still regarded the arts as the primary venue for human expression and attaining power, illustrating how, subsisting to the arts, his sense of morality and appreciation of human and nature remained intact.

             However, his disillusionment about the inability of the arts to bring about a true sense of power and control made Frankenstein shift his studies on the sciences. Through science, he became a different individual, who favored isolation and detachment as opposed to his previous love for humanity and its natural creations. Influenced by the works and lectures of Waldman and Krempe, Frankenstein endeavored to further his studies on natural science, including its methods. More specifically interested in the study of human life, he tried to discover and determine the origin and cycle of human life, stating, ".I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?.