Frankenstein

Both in life and literature, the intense desire to obtain and keep something or someone of value, an obsession, leads a person down a path of destruction. The obsession eventually leads the person’s life to fall apart and end in either death or complete devastation. In the novels Frankenstein and A Simple Plan, by Mary Shelley and Scott Smith, Victor Frankenstein and Hank’s obsessions lead to the destruction of their lives, respectively. Frankenstein’s obsession to find the “elixir of life” leads to the creation of a monster, which eventually leads to the ruination of his life. Hank’s obsession to hide the four million dollars he finds also leads to the destruction of his life.
In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Sh...