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The Modern Prometheus: Ambition, Isolation, and Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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The novel’s devastating climax—the deaths of William, Justine, Henry Clerval, and Elizabeth—are thus not random acts of horror but logical consequences of Victor’s original sin of abandonment. Each murder is a direct blow aimed at Victor’s happiness, a terrible lesson in empathy forced upon a man who refused to feel for his own creation. The chase through the Arctic wastes, where both creator and creature ultimately perish, underscores their tragic inseparability. Victor becomes the hunted, reduced to the same desolate, wandering state he imposed upon the Creature. In the end, the Creature mourns Victor’s death, showing more compassion for his tormentor than Victor ever showed for him. This final scene cements Shelley’s thesis: the Creature was never the true monster; the loving, intelligent, articulate being who weeps over a corpse was manufactured by a society and a creator incapable of love. The chase through the Arctic wastes, where both