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Why are Felix Agatha and De Lacey so poor? ›

Why are Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey so poor? They were born poor. Safie's father stripped them of their fortune. The French court took their fortune and exiled them from France for helping Safie's father escape from prison.

The monster tells Victor that it is his right to have a female monster companion. Victor refuses at first, but the monster appeals to Victor's sense of responsibility as his creator. He tells Victor that all of his evil actions have been the result of a desperate loneliness.

Throughout his story, Frankenstein tries to persuade Walton that he is not to blame for the Monster's crimes. He insists that he thought he was doing the right thing when he created the Monster, but sometimes he seems to realize that his argument is not entirely convincing.

Victor doesn't protect his wife on the night of their wedding because he misunderstands the monster's promise. Vic believed that the Creature was going to murder him instead of Elizabeth.

There, Felix learned that Safie's dad just used him as a tool to get out of prison. Eventually Safie fled and arrived at Germany to live with Felix, but the exile from their past glorious life and the dad's betrayal still left Felix and Agatha unhappy.

Who is Safie in Frankenstein? Safie is the love interest of Felix De Lacey in Frankenstein. She is an Arabic woman with a Muslim father and a Christian mother and comes from the Arab world.

Victor is the true monster through his actions and personality throughout the book. Victor's hostility towards the creature, obsession with creating life, and the yearning for a God-like status and power all reveal the inner monster Victor possesses.

In a way, Science and Technology are partially to blame for the events throughout the book. Victor Frankenstein is ultimately the key figure to blame for the chaos caused by the monster. His ignorance of his creation led to his downfall and ultimately stripped him of everything he loved.

Why does Frankenstein destroy the Monster's female companion? Frankenstein decides that he has a moral duty to destroy the female companion he is making for the Monster. He realizes that even if the Monster is not innately evil, he can't be sure the female companion won't turn out to be evil.

It's by no fault of Mary Shelley's that the only quote we all seem to remember from her classic 1818 text Frankenstein is, "It's alive!" The timeless horror story she penned of a man-made monster racked with conflicting emotions of his own making has reached icon status over the past 200 years—and yet, so many of the ...

What is the hidden message of Frankenstein? ›

The main message that Frankenstein conveys is the danger in the pursuit of knowledge and advancement in Science and Technology. In the novel we see Victor try to push forward the limits of science by creating a creature from old body parts. The creation of the creature backfired on Victor once the monster escaped.

He's ambitious and proud, tampering with forces beyond his control, presuming to violate the laws of nature and the authority of God. He lacks the strength to take responsibility for his actions. He is horrified by what he has done, what he has created, and so he runs away.

Victor's apparent love of Elizabeth is superficial, an attachment more akin to the ownership of a pet than a marriage. To Victor, Elizabeth is a figure of beauty and docility, without regard to her feelings, in a similar manner to his selfish treatment of his own friend Clerval.

Shelley also highlights that Victor is a villain through nature's disapproval of victor's “unhallowed” pursuit.

Elizabeth is an orphan child adopted by the Frankensteins. She becomes a devoted daughter, sister and eventually wife to Victor.

In the novel, the De Laceys are poor to the point of near-starvation, barely scraping by as subsistence farmers. They had been prominent French residents, but ran afoul of the authorities for their support of a Muslim friend and his family. They were stripped of their property and sent north into exile.

The De Laceys live a simple existence and struggle with poverty after they were exiled from their homeland of France. The two young De Laceys are called Felix and Agatha, and the family also take in a Turkish woman named Safie, who is in love with Felix.

Safie was eager to marry a European man and thereby escape the near-slavery that awaited her in Turkey. Felix successfully coordinated her father's escape from prison, but when the plot was discovered, Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey were exiled from France and stripped of their wealth.

Safie's father was falsely imprisoned by the Parisian government. Because Felix helped the him escape, the DeLacey's were stripped of their fortune and condemned to live in exile for the rest of their lives.