Because Victor fails the creature, his loved ones suffer the consequences. Victor fails his creation by recoiling from it in horror and being unable to love it once it comes to life. He realizes too late that in his pride, his desire to emulate the divine, he has made a mistake.

Victor thinks of himself as godlike, bringing light where there is only darkness and creating life where it did not exist before. He thinks he can even cheat death. Like a God he expects that his creations will show him gratitude and worship him without reservation.

Victor sees his creation as beautiful and yet repugnant, versus the creation story taken from the Bible in which God sees his creation of Adam as “good.” In a distressed mental state, Victor falls into bed, hoping to forget his creation.

He is arrested for murder but still has no idea why. When Victor sees the corpse of Henry Clerval (with the visible remnants of the creature’s hand prints around his neck), he becomes so ill that he hovers near death.

Victor Frankenstein, the main character, is a romantic character because he represents the Romantic ideals of imagination and innovation. Other examples of Romanticism in the novel appear when Shelley incorporates vivid imagery of nature. The feelings of Shelley’s characters often copy the state of nature around them.

Victor Frankenstein best exhibits the five characteristics of a tragic hero; Peripeteia, hamartia, hubris, anagnorisis, and fate. Victor possesses flaws that go down the pathway of downfall. It is Victor’s ambition that steers him to experiment science. The desire of knowledge without acknowledging morals is lethal.

Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Romanticism legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.

Romantics revolted against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason and rationality and instead emphasized emotion. In revolt against the Industrial Revolution and its tendency towards mass movements, urbanization, and sameness, Romanticism instead focused on the individual and on individual experience.

Any list of particular characteristics of the literature of romanticism includes subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather than life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty; love of and worship of nature; and …