Frankenstein scene

Shelley's "Frankenstein" chapter iv Scene:

The passage in which we are examining is during chapter IV, where the paragraph begins with "No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards...". In this passage, Victor is opening up his mind to the thought of the created life, and he describes it as "new species would bless me as the creator and source". His energy in this passage is exuded by his interest to create a subspecies that has never been created before. The energy was always there with Victor, but he was simply unable to keep consistently working that hard to create the monster without going insane.

He refers to "his spirits" and gives allusions to having success if he can accomplish this task. Throughout the second second paragraph, he states that his body and soul are breaking down due to fatigue, but his heart won't let him, when he says "lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit." This one pursuit is literally driving Victor crazy, which makes it very interesting that he continues on with the difficult task of creating the monster. However, Victor is very determined to create the monster due to the god-like feeling that is exhibited by Victor throughout the passage. Being the "creator and source" as stated before seems to be a reference to God, which would make him the all powerful and knowing creator of a species, which no human has ever done before.

I find it interesting that Victor was trying to accomplish a task that would bring him fortune and well being, but instead brought him a life of misery and fear. This instance is very interesting to me because his accomplishment is a very unbelievable feat, but it only brought him struggle. I feel that his mentality and demeanor had a large contribution to the struggle, because he was naive to what he was creating that he forgot to take into consideration how the monster would react to a new environment. The monster had a brain of its own (even though it was an abnormal brain from a hospital patient), so for Victor to overlook the monster's emotional state was surprising to me.