Everyone's nature has always influenced their actions. Everyone has their unique attitude, but different attributes make up everyone's attitude. Arrogance, overconfidence, greed, selfishness, altruism, benevolence and fear are some of these attributes. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley gives these attributes to her characters. In the gothic novel Frankenstein, the character Victor creates a creature in order to realize his ambitions. This creature is abandoned by Victor, which overwhelms it with loneliness. Everyone judges the creature by its appearance, which causes the creature to despise its master. The creature murders Victor's family and later, the two fight a duel in order to satisfy their need for revenge. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the characterizations of Victor and the creature in order to convey the idea that those who are overcome by ignorance and arrogance are destined to experience sorrow. First, Shelley characterizes Victor as an ignorant man to convey the idea that ignorance leads to sorrow. In the following passage, Victor informs Walton of how he worked day and night without sleeping; However, all his hard work was in vain: I had worked hard for almost two years, with the sole aim of breathing life into an inanimate person, for this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardor which far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream faded, and horror and panting disgust filled my heart. Unable to bear the sight of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued to pace around my bedroom for a long time, unable to calm myself down to sleep. (Shelley 47)Shelley uses ...... middle of paper ...... sense, the physical secrets of the world. (Shelley 30) Victor desires to learn the “secret of heaven,” which shows his arrogance. Victor wants to achieve something that no human has achieved. He also wishes to obtain the secrets of nature: the “mysterious soul” of human beings. Nature is something far too difficult for man to understand, which shows his audacity. Later in the story, Victor repents of seeking this knowledge and it later becomes the cause of his death. Thus, Victor's arrogance caused his demise. Victor Frankenstein's ignorance and arrogance made him cry. Victor was not aware of the consequences of his own actions and, therefore, he must have felt remorse. Victor was also arrogant and his dreams were way out of his reach. On this, one must not have ignorance and arrogance, otherwise one will experience sorrow..