Creating a monster that will turn and swallow you! This is my one of my first English books that I read at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. I thought it will be good for South Sudanese to read this paragraph that I paraphrase! (Frankenstein by Mary Shelly). As such, neither character can be classified into black-and-white categories of hero or anti-hero. They both have perpetrated many evils against each other, and they both have suffered so much that readers cannot help but offer their sympathies to both. The real enemy, as Victor Frankenstein declares at the end, is ambition: “Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent, one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries” (200). Ambition drives Frankenstein to create the monster in the first place, and without it the tragic ending of the story could have been avoided completely. Had he contented himself with ordinary scientific pursuits like the rest of his colleagues, none of his family would have been murdered. As Frankenstein has learned by the time he lies on his death bed, even a purely innocent intention can blossom into a full-blown disaster.
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