Themes in Frankenstein

Quote: "They are dead; and but one feeling in such a solitude can persuade me to preserve my life. If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow-creatures, then I could live to fullfill it. But such is not my destiny; I must pursue and destroy the being to whom I gave existence; then my lot on earth will be fullfiled, and I may die" (Shelley).

Themes: solitude, creation and guilt

Explanation: Victor Frankenstein is feeling guilty about his creation. He is explaining that all his loved ones are dead, because the Monster killed them. So, he wants to destroy the Creature to finish with all these murders commited by the Monster, and then he is thinking about commiting a suicide, because there is nothing so worth living, because all his loved ones are dead.