Thursday, April 14, 2011

Internal Conflict - Victor

"But in reality I was very ill; and surely nothing but the unbounded and unremitting attentions of my friend could have restored me to life.." pg 39

Victor Frankenstien illustrates the very definition of internal conflict. It is evident that he had an obsession with his science and philosophy studies due the utter construction of the monster. We can make the second observation of his obsession by the fact that he does not even write to his family. He is so possessed by his experiment and his work that he neglects everything else that's usually important to him. After he creates the monster, he is incredibly terrified of him. He is scared of the thing HE created himself. - but I think he is more afraid of the fact that he had the ability to create such a thing. The passage above shows how ill it made him, and how much it tortured him. Victor struggled with the thought of the monster for weeks after it has already run away, as if he has an internal feeling somethig more was going to happen.

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