Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Reading on, it becomes clear Frankenstein's motivation for such a creation. The opening story he shares is of his mother and her experience as a young adult, being orphaned when her father died in her arms. Then, when Elizabeth gets the scarlette fever, Caroline Frankenstein falls ill to the same illness while taking care of her. Under these circumstances, it makes sense that Victor would have such a longing to create life and health where there is no hope for it otherwise. "Pursuing these reflections, I thought, that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption" (Shelley, 32). His passion and madness is directly stemmed from being traumatized from his experience of death. He longs to dive into the impossible.
"[...] And soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein,-- more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation" (Shelley, 28).
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