In my paper, I wrote that, "Frankenstein is in denial and even withdraws from interacting with anyone after his failed attempt to create a replica...

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character of is complicated in part because he did not fully think through the consequences of
his project to bring a person to life. There are several components of the statement you quote
that might have prompted your professor to comment on the failure aspect of Victors project.
If we look at his goals, we can see that his objective was not exactly to create a replicawhat
today we call to clonea human being. In chapters IV and V, his goals, plan, achievements, and
disappointment are presented.

Victor took several steps in his process to
create a new creature that he expected would be a human being. First, he collected parts of a
number of dead bodies, and he next assembled them into one complete being. His exact method for
piecing them together is not specified. The final step was to bring that body to life, or
re-animate it.

Before he begins this project, Victor clearly states his goal
and his conviction that he could achieve it (chapter IV). He also tells , to whom he narrates
his tale, that he cannot reveal how he achieved the goal, for the reasons he will
provide.

After days and nights of incredible labour and
fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself
capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter€¦.

I see by your
eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be
informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be€¦.

In those early days after becoming convinced he had found this
cause, Victor is first euphoric and then cautious. It is his ego that prompts him to create a
human rather than some other animal. His exalted imagination allows him no doubt as to whether
he actually can accomplish this. He even decides to make a giant rather than a normal-size man.
From his statements showing unbounded , the reader can detectof his eventual failure, for it
seems he wishes to play God. His play goes beyond making a copy of a human: he will establish
a new species with the first creature he makes.

A new
species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe
their being to me€¦.

As Victor continues telling Robert
how he accomplished his goal to infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing (chapter V),
he makes clear that the problem was not failure to animate this pieced-together form. He
succeeds at that:

I saw the dull yellow eye ofopen; it
breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

When he first beholds the wretch, his emotions are mixed. He understands that he has
succeeded, and acknowledges some positive aspects in what he beholds. But he immediately begins
to despise the creature because he is not beautiful as Victor had intended, but seems to him a
travesty of that very concept. The problem, for Victor, is not one of absolute failure but of
his own perfectionism in the aesthetic aspect of the creatures external form. His expectations
were so high that he was bound to be disappointed.

How can
I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite
pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
features as beautiful. Beautiful!Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles
and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly
whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that
seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled
complexion and straight black lips.