In Frankenstein Victors creates a monster and becomes very scared of what he has created. Victor has personal problems come up and he has to return back to his home town in Geneva. Victor's brother has been killed. In the process of finding out who killed his brother he begans to believe it is the monster he has created after he is walking around the spot his brothers body laid in the woods. Victor sees the creature off in his distance. Justine a family friend confesses to the crime and then dies a few days later. Now Victor has to deal with the guilt of his close friend taking blame when really the monster he created killed his loving brother william.
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Article by:Associated PressA veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, former U.S. Marine Capt. Timothy
Kudo thinks of himself as a killer - and he carries the guilt every day. “I can’t forgive myself,” he says. “And the people who can forgive me are dead.” With American troops at war for more than a decade, there’s been an unprecedented number of studies into war zone psychology and an evolving understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder. Clinicians suspect some troops are suffering from what they call “moral injuries” - wounds from having done something, or failed to stop something, that violates their moral code. Though there may be some overlap in symptoms, moral injuries aren’t what most people think of as PTSD, the nightmares and flashbacks of terrifying, life-threatening combat events. A moral injury tortures the conscience; symptoms include deep shame, guilt and rage. It’s not a medical problem, and it’s unclear how to treat it, says retired Col. Elspeth Ritchie, former psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general. Guilt Trip Speech
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Quotes related to guilt from Frankenstein:
"They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and all though they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillesed" (Shelley 83).
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, then, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick session od events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear" (Shelley 77).
"The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove" (Shelley 77).
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, then, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick session od events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear" (Shelley 77).
"The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove" (Shelley 77).
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Smith, Justine. "Guilt Trip -NYTimes.com." Opinion - Opinionator -NYTimes.com. Ruth Whippman, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2013.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/guilt-trip/.
"Abuse Poems - Poems about Abuse." Family Friend Poems - Popular Contemporary Poetry. N.p., 22 June 2009. Web. 27 Feb.2013. <http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/sad/abuse-poems.asp>.