Ambition Lies Within Responsibility

Victor Frankenstein, R. Walton and Undertaker

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein & Grimly’s Frankenstein

The novel is started by a series of letters by Robert Walton,

informing his sister about the updates of his travels and his ideas to
move north to seek the pull that guides the needle within a compass.
Walton had seeked out his sister, telling her about the need and want
for a real friend to share stories, before Victor Frankenstien boarded
the boat after seeking his lost creature of the icey plain. Walton is
intrigued by Frankenstein and seeks out his story.
Frankenstein sought out to find the defining line that blurred
life and death. He believed to be a man of science piecing together
what made a man, a man. He did this in the emotion of losing his
mother at a young age. Piles and piles of research came before he
succeeded in bringing back the dead. Scared for what Victor had done, he fled, leaving his
creation behind.
Two months had passed before Frankenstein returned to his
creature; after the death of his brother William and a relative named
Justine. Frankenstein believes that his creature killed these people and
seeks to avenge their deaths. But with a little guidance and
understanding, Frankenstein is able to help his creature into a new light
and the creature begs to be given someone who can walk the earth with
him. Victor denies the creature until he gives in, but dumps the female
creature into the waters.
After the killing of his dear friend, Henry, the creature seeks to
find Victor’s bride before killing her. After that, Victor hunts the creature to inflect the same pain
he felt as everything was ripped away from him.
 Once Victor has passed, the creature is notified by Walton, and the creature leaves north
where he will find his own place to rest and pass.

Historical Context:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was written in the Eighteenth century leading the way to the way
to romanticism during the ninth century. She only wrote the book as a bet between friends, and
the novel was published when she was eighteen.

About the Author(s):

Mary Shelley was born on August 10, 1791 and her name then was Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin combining her name with her mother Mary
Wollstonecraft and her father, William Godwin. She was raised in London,
England. Her stepmother sought to educate her children, leaving Shelley out of
the family dynamic, and she educated herself. Around the time that Frankenstein
was published; it was published anonymously.

Gris Grimly is an illustrator who drew Gris Grimly’s Frankenstien.

He was born in Nebraska in 1975 and started drawing at the age of
four. He drew Frankenstein because of the responsibility that he felt
as an illustrator to interpret the amazon novel that is Frankenstein. He
grew up feeling like the monster within Frankenstein feeling unloved
and alone after having suffered back burns at a young age.

Analysis:
Victor Frankenstein posed a unique solution to an issue everyone in their life faces. With the loss
of his mother at a young age, he threw himself into research to understand what is the link
between life and death. His emotions dive him into
madness as he creates this creature that he doesn’t wish to
love and care for. Frankenstein, as a creator, held the
responsibility to care and teach his creature and live as he
were a normal human being; to be welcomed within the
arms of everyone.
But Victor posed to be only a man of science.
After his experiment was a success, he fled, leaving his creature alone to fend for himself.
It takes Victor two months, the loss of a dear friend and his little brother to return to his
creature, but not to care for it, but to destroy it with the understanding that his creature had killed
the people Victor had lost.
With the lack of emotion that the creature understood as kindness, he asked his creator to
make him a wife; someone who he could walk the earth with. Victor refused to create another,
tossing the female creature into the ocean, never allowing it to be seen again, throwing away the
responsibility to make his creature walk alone and unloved.

Robert Walton, in the start of the novel, is writing a letter to his sister,
noting that he longs for someone to talk to and be friends with. While he
had his shipmates, they could never grasp the ambition that he had. He
wishes that he had someone until Victor boards the ship. He informs his
sister of the events and notes that it is his duty to listen to Victor’s tale
and let everyone know of his mistake for they will not follow in his
footsteps.

Black Butler: Book of Atlantic:

Ciel Phantomhive and his staff board a cruise

ship for an assignment from the Queen of
England. On this ship, people are rising from the dead, but only appear to be animated and
seeking the life within others; their blood. While the Queen suspects that illegal human
experimentation is done. Which is demonstrated by the Aurora Society.
As Ciel and his staff find what is happening to these people who are being brought back
from the dead. We find that in the end, the Undertaker is responsible for why the doctor in the
Aurora Society sought out this solution to bring back the dead.
The Undertaker, who is a grim reaper, sought to understand what would happen to their
cinematic record (souls) if people were brought back. He teamed up with the doctor because of
the mourning he felt for those on the chain he wears.

Context:

Over the few years that Ciel has been given this
opportunity from the Queen, he seeks out what the
officers cannot. He is the Queen’s Guard Dog for this
reason. He had a demon butler named Sebastian and
under their contract, they fight the underground the most
people don’t see. The Reapers are those who decide the
fate of those who died and record it for their records.

Analysis:
The story itself matches that of Victor Frankenstein. The Undertaker seeks to find a solution for
those who he had lost, but also because he sought
to understand what happens to the record when
someone is brought back from the dead. As a
Reaper, it was his responsibility to only record
those of the dead and allow them to move on
from the world. He allowed himself to be bored
with the normal that he was given. While Victor
was a man of science, the Undertaker was a man of death and wanted to seek a solution.