often begin with shock and questions as to how a human being could possibly commit such an atrocity and how such a person could possibly exist or even be human. As we ponder this, we stumble upon the question of what it truly means to be human—whether it is the values that we have, the fact that we were conceived, or the beating heart that we find inside our chests. Thoughts similar to these are constantly provoked when one reads Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, where the concept of what it means to be
As a reader progresses in the story of Victor Frankenstein and his creation you see that he is changing and becoming a different man then the reader sees at the beginning of this journey. We see a psychological evolution of this man and for those that do not understand the human psyche this will show how this change occurs. When the story first starts off the reader first encounters Victor in the letters of Robert Walton, and the reader can see here that Victor is in pursuit of his creation. When