“After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires, was the most gratifying consummation of my toils. But this discovery was so great and overwhelming, that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I behold only the result”(52). The passage I had chosen to analysis is one that puzzled me for I believed, out of all the situations in his life he perceived to be the cause of his now horrid life, that this event was the true cause of his misfortunes.

Within the passage I had stated, Frankenstein had discovered the answer to his longing need for animating a lifeless object. In this moment, the shock of discovery made him obsessed with the results. In turn, he became isolated for two years in his studies and nearly kills himself by not caring about his own well-being. Now, the question that arised was, “How could he forget about all the intensive studying and analyzing he did of the human body from life to death and death to life?” Forgetting the process of anything leads to misinterpreted results. Frankenstein could have missed something very important that could have prevented the making of a monster. If only he hadn’t have been so blinded by his discovery.

Frankenstein points out two moments in his life that he felt triggured his misfortune. 1) His father not telling him the worthlessness of reading the works of Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus, Magnus and Paracelus. 2) When he saw lightning strike a tree and a man who got excited by that, explained his theory of electricity and galvanism. These two events changed him from a youth interested in natural history to one that wanted to learn math and the natural science. It is true these moments were what made him so interested in what he was trying to accomplish however, as a scientist who forgets his stepping stones in the moment of discovery can create dillusions of actual discovery. In the same page of the passage, Frankenstein says he is not a mad man but really that is what he became at that very moment. At that moment he forgot about his past and all his understandings of life and death because some kind of light struck him tellig him that this is the answer to everything. Blindly choosing to accept his discovery was his downfall, not the ideas he was susceptible to as a child.