Frankenstein is a common story that most people are familiar with to some extent. They saw movies and TV shows alluding to Mary Shelley's creation, but didn't capture it in its entirety. While reading the novel, I came across several themes that were very important to the novel as a whole. Victor Frankenstein, a student of chemistry and natural philosophy, becomes obsessed with the "supernatural" and decides to devote all his time to the search for the secret to creating life. After years of hard work, he is finally able to create life, but the monster he created is so hideous and miserable that he cannot bear to look at it and runs away from the monster. Due to the rejection the monster faces by others, he seeks revenge on his creator by killing Frankenstein's younger brother. Frankenstein, knowing all along that only his monster could do such a thing, has only vengeful thoughts. Upon meeting the monster, the monster told Frankenstein to create a partner for him who would live with the monster so that he would not be alone. After refusing this request, the monster kills Frankenstein's best friend and wife. Frankenstein pursues the monster to defeat him once and for all, and that's when Walton finds Frankenstein, before Frankenstein can take revenge, and ends up dying on Walton's ship. The first theme I picked up was the role of family. Victor, from a young age, recounts time and again how blessed he was by such devoted parents. “No creature could have more tender parents than mine” (Shelley 19). The reason for his education and thirst for knowledge was due to his father and the sacrifices his father made for him to succeed. “When my father became a husband and parent, he found his paper plot......n to kill Victor's youngest brother, and Victor in turn seeks revenge on the monster. The monster wanted to create a companion, someone he could feel like part of a family with. Revenge eventually consumes them both and leads to their deaths. Revenge and family are two very different themes. With the importance of family come the emotions of love, devotion, sacrifice, etc. From revenge comes hatred, punishment, chastisement, etc. Family led to the beginnings of Frankenstein (his family raised him, took care of him, educated him, etc.), and the beginnings of the monster (he first felt an emotion, a need to a companion, learned from them, etc.). But ultimately, both of their destructions were meant as revenge for each other. Works Cited Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. Second ed. New York: WW Norton &, 2012. Print.