As I continue to read Frankenstein, I realize how different some people can react to difficult situations that tend to happen throughout life. In this case when a mother passes away. The passage that I would be focusing on is when Victor is about to leave his family in Geneva to pursue his studies at the University at Ingolstadt. This whole situation that I’ll be focusing on takes place throughout Chapter three and four. As he’s about to leave, his mom, sadly catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth and because of this illness unfortunately passes away. Although, Victor is present when his mother dies and griefs for a bit he still decides to go to the University at Ingolstadt. Once he arrives there he gives himself no time to recuperate from what has happened back home and he immediately starts working on his sciences.

The major question that I have to ask “Is why didn’t he just give himself time to feel better ?”. Viewing it from another perspective I think that it’s kind of absurd that he would just leave like that because most people in his situation would just stay home in Geneva with their family and grief about their loss. Time is essential in situations like these because time heals all wounds. I understand that he was really interested in the creation of life and the discussion about science after having the talk with Professor Waldman; but I believe that he acted this way and at a quickly manner because he didn’t know how to cope with the situation of losing his mother. In other words he didn’t want to go through the process of being sad or emotional and in a way put it to the side and do something else to distract himself. Although, this can seem like a good idea in the long run it will always comes back and affect you.

Putting all his time into his work also affected him later on in the story because we noticed how passionate he was getting about actually creating human life. With all this excitement that he had about his creation and basically having no social life we can also infer how disappointed he would be if it were to fail. Anyone who spends so much time doing something expects their project to come out correctly and just as they imagined. In Victor’s case when he finally finished he wasn’t happy with his end results instead he was terrified because it didn’t turn out the way he planned it to. He expected it to be beautiful and it was horrific. The question that I would like to ask here is “Was the death of his mother in the back of his head when he was working on his creation ? Is that the reason why it came out wrong ?”. I believe that the reason why he messed up wasn’t because he didn’t know how to actually do the work but because he probably got distracted along the way with his past.