The theme of Frankenstein is the dangers of playing with nature. The novel shows how humanity’s attempts to control nature and create life will inevitably lead to disaster. Victor Frankenstein’s obsession with creating life leads him to isolate himself from society, which makes him vulnerable to the monster’s attacks.
The theme of Frankenstein is the dangers of science without ethics. Victor Frankenstein’s obsession with creating life leads him to neglect his studies in medicine, which causes him to botch his attempt at reanimating dead tissue and leads directly to the creation of the monster. His lack of ethics also causes him to abandon his beloved wife and child when he abandons his pursuit of creating life after realizing that he has created something monstrous and evil.
The theme of Frankenstein is the dangers of obsession. The novel shows how obsession can take over a person’s life and lead them down dark paths they never thought possible—Victor Frankenstein spends years obsessed with creating life, despite being warned by his peers not to do so; eventually, this obsession leads him down a path where he abandons his family and becomes completely isolated from society for fear of being discovered as a monster maker by those.
