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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." Here Shelley contrasts God's creation of Adam to Victor's creation of the monster.
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The monster now begins to take shape, and Victor describes his creation in full detail as "beautiful" yet repulsive with his "yellow skin,""lustrous black, and flowing" hair, and teeth of "pearly whiteness." Victor describes the monster's eyes, considered the windows upon the soul, as "watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips." Also, this chapter builds fear in the reader, another big part of Gothic writing. The Gothic elements that can be found in this chapter are the grotesque (description of the monster's features), the eerie environment (Victor's lab at 1 a.m.), the undead quality, and some type of psychic communication (Victor's feeling of being followed). Henry advises Victor to write home, as a letter had recently arrived from his family in Geneva.Ĭhapter 5 is significant because it marks the beginning of the novel that Mary Shelley wrote during her now famous summer stay in the Lake Geneva region (refer to the "Life and Background" section). Henry spends the rest of the winter and spring nursing Victor back to health after the tumultuous fall.
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Victor finds the disappearance of his monster a source of joy and falls down in a fit of exhaustion from the release of anxiety over his creation.
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Henry and Victor return to Victor's apartment to find the monster gone. Henry had come to see about his friend and to enroll at the university. He wanders the streets of Ingolstadt until Henry Clerval finds him in poor condition. Excited and disgusted at "the monster" he had created, he runs from the apartment. We run programmes in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, Hong Kong and London, you can apply here or sign up below to get advice from the EF team on your startup journey.Victor succeeds in bringing his creation, an eight-foot man, to life in November of his second year. If you’re interested in exploring what your technical skills can create, apply to our next cohort at Entrepreneur First. We have to ensure that we all take pause for thought over the kind of legacy we are trying to create and that we consider what the impact of our ambition is going to be. They are the key to the progression of humanity.īut, ambition isn’t enough on its own. It matters what the world’s best technologists do with their lives. It matters what the most ambitious individuals do with their lives. “Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.” “You are my creator, but I am your master obey!” says Frankenstein’s creature He cannot control the creature he has created. “Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you! You have made me wretched beyond expression.” “I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction”Ī story that the creator does not win. The story of Frankenstein is about the creator and his beast in a war of mutual destruction. There is no multi million dollar exit with VCs spraying champagne over their protégé. “No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.”īut Frankenstein does not have a happy ending. “When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it.” He considers them, but is lured back to the project, addicted to its intellectual stimulation. He knows he is taking on a project that could potentially be dangerous and have far-reaching consequences. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation.”
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For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. “I had worked hard for two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. He’s obsessive, hard working, an intellectual outlier and has insane personal exceptionalism. He reminds me of many of the people who come through Entrepreneur First. After his further education, instead of returning to his childhood sweetheart, he decides to take on the most ambitious project of them all - creating an intelligent being. He is an extraordinary and unusual individual. It’s 200 years since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was published and I thought it was worth another read, having not picked it up for about a decade.Īs an investor in more than 70+ AI companies, it gave pause for thought.įrankenstein is an outlier. What deep tech founders can learn from Frankenstein