Frankenstein: Motivation

"My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement." pg. 53 Frankenstein's motivation in this story is to become a master of science and to understand everything. He wants to discover and invent so much that he actually makes himself sick and does not seem to care. I think this motivation or obsession really, propels the book along. From the very beginning the author experiences motivation from Walton and then an extreme kind from Frankenstein. I think that the author intended for the readers to understand what motivation can do to a person and what motivation without morality or constraints can cause. In the novel, Frankenstein's motivation to create life from an inanimate object creates multiple moral and albeit scientific inquiries from the reader. However, if the motivation was substandard or not as expressed as it is, I think the whole meaning of the novel would be thrown off. Motivation or obsession, in Frankenstein's case, without moderation can cause serious problems and motivation without morality can cause an effect that might be amazing and groundbreaking, but might be the demise of a race.