An ambition is an eager, and sometimes and inordinate desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power or attainment over something or someone else. To obtain object or goal that is immensely desired. It comes from the Middle English word “ambicioun,” meaning an excessive desire for power, money or wealth. Ambition is something that everyone, no matter their age or cultural background, has instinctively. Through ambitious undertakings we can set goals and find ourselves and our God-given talents. Ambition can be a driving force for success, or in some cases a road to failure. “With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into lifeless thing that lay at my feet. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form?" ( Volume I, page 34 ). Such intensive emotions had experienced Victor Frankenstein when he first saw the creature which he by his own hands had created. His entire life has lead up to this moment.
The last two years have been spent by this scheme to produce a creature unique to the world. But Frankenstein suffers from the final outcome of his actions as a result of his excessive ambitions like a victim helpless to circumstances. Thus, an excessive ambition rather hurts people than brings fortune. Ambition and initiative are the very first determinants of success and the reasons for why successful people are as successful as they are. Without an ambition a man has no purpose in his life. In contrast, a goal can help people get organized and take steps towards achieving what they want in their day-to-day lives. Of course, everyone’s life's ambition is to be happy with his or her place in, and contribution to society. The ambitious man is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it, he sees ex...