This is going to be legen-, wait for it...actually I hate this (ch 4/5)

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein, the boy compelled by his ambition for knowledge, finally has a place to hone his skills. His college classes fuel his prime desire, to create life. He wants to be able to make nothingness alive, and he figures he can do this with the power of science and philosophy. He began constructing a man, proportionally large to make the assembling easier, and fitted the body with all the essentials humans have. As he worked, his worked made him continuously reconsider what he was doing, but his desire to succeed was far greater. The ability to conquer the unknown was the only thing driving Frankenstein, and nothing would stop him. He even became so paranoid that "the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime" (Shelley 34). When the creature finally awoke, Frankenstein thought he would be ecstatic. However, the bizarre look of this gigantic man beast terrified him, and his work was viewed as terror and a complete waste. After all the work he put into this project, and after all the hysteria he went through, Frankenstein was utterly disappointed (and horrified) with his work.