Her tale of an obsessed scientist who creates and then abandons a human being, thus provoking it to horrible vengeance, has maintained the attention of readers and critics since its publication and has vastly overshadowed Shelley's other works of literature. John Polidori-challenged one another to write a horror story. While on holiday in Geneva, Switzerland, a period that Shelley later characterized as "a wet, ungenial summer" during which "incessant rain often confined us for days to the house," she and her companions-her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord George Gordon Byron, and Dr. The story began as Shelley's contribution to a friendly competition among several of her literary cohorts. Mary Shelley puts it straight, that such hubris so characteristic of Victor could lead anyone to catastrophe.Written by Mary Shelley when she was just nineteen years old and published anonymously in 1818, Frankenstein is one of the most recognizable and enduring novels in English literature. Frankenstein’s passion and power of will to reach the goal are worthy of respect. He, his brother, and bride die at the hand of a monster.
This scientific discovery of the protagonist leads to the sequence of horrendous events.
He is torn between the willingness to be loved and to get revenge. Curiously, Victor Frankenstein’s creature is also driven by the same conflict. Victor goes too far in imagining him to be a God and creates a monster. Still, his superior intellect makes Frankenstein too selfish to notice that he loses all humanness and hurts other people. Victor had a family and a beloved woman he lived in a luxurious residence but left it all to fulfill his ambitions. That is the inner conflict that moves the plot forward: his heart strives for love and peace. Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist of the story, is torn apart by two conflicting desires: to have a family and simple life, or to be recognized as a genius. Victor Frankenstein faces the challenge of choice: to have a family or to have fame and recognition. The plot of the novel by Mary Shelley, is constructed on the conflict of heart and intellect.
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