How Does Victor's Monster Cause Heartache

As a result, this can lead to disobedience and unethical acts that can result in violence. This is shown within the book. That due to the lack of basic needs, the “monster” kills William, the brother of Victor.  What led to his shameful phase, was the painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong. That he knew that he killed William, but due to Victor actions and behaviors of Mistrust, his only way to learn was to demonstrate violence. The monster states, “I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet… clapping my hands, my enemy is not impregnable.” This offers some evidence on why he continued the murder, he wanted to deeply hurt the person that forsaked him. He wanted to have pride, rather than shame, but it was inevitable.

The reader can immediately see this because the Monster says, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” (Shelley 124). He begins to murder members of Victor’s close friends and family. His first victim is William Frankenstein. The Monster has no intentions to kill William, but he says, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed” (Shelley 116). The Monster shows his frustration with Victor creating him in this way and for making him into an outcast. After Victor breaks his promise of creating a female monster, the Monster murders Henry Clerval. The Monster’s anger continues to build up over time and he believes the only way to face it is by taking the lives of those who have a close relationship with Victor. The Monster kills Elizabeth Lavenza on her wedding night. He takes the lives of the people who are in a close relationship with Victor due to the anger he feels toward him. The violence the Monster uses is his way to try and seek revenge on Victor because he feels that he set him up to fail, to be an outcast, and to be unacceptable to

Victor thought “for this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”(page). This quote demonstrates that once Victor had concluded his work of creating the monster, he realized that it may have been a huge mistake. He was not satisfied with his creation instead he was filled with terror. In result of his realization, he left the monster to fend for himself and suffer. Victor shows an evil side of himself by abandoning the monster and leaving him to be universally shunned by society. By Victor doing this one evil act, it causes the monster himself to go off and initiate evil acts of his own.

After two innocent victims die in the hands of Victor because of the monster’s thirst for revenge, the monster confronts his creator insisting “Thy justice…is most due” . As he begs Victor to create another being, a female partner as hideous as he is, he admits the hurtful remorse he feels of his actions, promising “I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.” This reveals the monster understands right from wrong, justice from injustice, as he realizes he should stop his murder

Victor’s conscience holds the painful achievement of giving life to a beast capable of murder due to selfishness. The first victim that dies at the hands of the creature is William. Victor’s selfishness is reflected when his creation frames Justine for the murder. Victor states, “Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims of my unhallowed art” (Shelley 60). Victor does take responsibility and admits that he is to blame, but he does not express this to others, only to himself. Nor does Victor fess up to the real cause of his monster’s bloodlust and turn himself in like a selfless individual would. Although his selfishness affects the lives of others, the ones near and dear to him receive much affliction too.

At first, Victor and the monster are both admirable characters in their own way; nevertheless, both characters make a transition to become negative individuals. In the beginning, Victor can be seen to work hard, and is very intelligent. This brain-power could have been used to drastically impact the world of science, but, since Victor abandoned his masterpiece, it did the exact opposite, bringing harm upon those who roam the world. Because Victor made such a quick decision and left, his character was changed dramatically. Likewise, the monster is, at first, seen to be a being of peace, despite all the wrong humans have done to him. His consistent helping and admiration of humans makes the reader think he will always be a peaceful being. He could have used his kind actions to help the world, and even help the cottagers poverty; however, he quickly vows to destroy all humans. Thanks to Mary Shelley, the reader can learn that one should ponder on later actions instead of simply following their first, natural

Rather than just killing Victor, however, the monster decides to kill his loved ones. The death of a potential companion in the world incites the monster to create even more death.

Upon full comprehension of “the miserable monster whom I had created (pg. 52)” Victor falls ill. He recovers, yet this is the mere beginning of the horrors awaiting Victor. Victor accounts “my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me (pg. 69)”; the first of Victor’s loved ones to fall victim to the murderous rampage of the monster is William—Victor’s brother. Yet, through this murder the monster has also indirectly killed another, Justine.

Victor’s creation of a monster is an internal conflict that deals with the corruption of the creature that was created. Victor accepts responsibility for the occurring deaths and he has a fear of his creation’s pursuit of revenge. Sadly, Victor’s mental state leads him to obsession with the death of the evil creature that he has created.

“I thought of returning to my friends and my native town. “said by Victor, but he eventually left his family for completing the experiment of making the monster. He thinks:“ I(Victor himself) was yet engaged in my laboratory”.(chapter 4) But after bringing the monster to live, he heard the news:“ William is dead! -- that sweet child, whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered!”(chapter7).

Victor acts with egotism when he destroys the female creature he was making for the monster, when he promises to visit him on the wedding night. Victor thinks that the monster plans to kill him on his wedding night with his love Elizabeth; therefore he abandons the creation process (Reichardt, 27). His self-centeredness prevents him from seeing the dire consequences this will have on his family. The evil trait of being self-centered is also shown by victor when he fails to reveal the truth about the death of his brother William. Even though he knows that Justin is not responsible for the death, he fails to confess the truth and to keep his promise of admitting to the crime, letting Justin to be sentenced to death (Reisner, 18).

The monsters extreme hatred of Victor for abandoning him, fuels his actions in killing William. The action displays the Monsters need for a parental connection. With a connection to Victor, the Monster's hatred would not have influenced his actions in killing William, since there would be no hatred. The necessity for a parental connection for the monster is paramount in the avoidance of unlawful acts.

“[The old man] turned on hearing a noise; and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields…”(73) Upon seeing the creature’s face, the man screamed and ran away from his own home. The old man’s scream made the creature feel bad about how it looks. This is significant because the old man’s screaming shows how horrendous the creature looks, being the same reason its creator ran away. “[William] still struggled, and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart: I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.”(102) The creature killed William, Victor’s youngest brother, because he belonged to the Frankenstein family, which infuriated him more than the insults since it considered the family its enemy. William’s insults caused the creature to feel heartbroken, which affected it so much because William was only a little boy and he was calling it a monster. The creature learned new emotions while it was in the forest looking for its creator. Instead of the creature being blamed for William’s death, Justine, the housemaid, was blamed and hanged for the murder, causing Victor to feel very guilty due to his cowardliness. If William was not part of Victor’s family, then the creature might not have killed him. This marks the beginning of the unfortunate events and leads to Victor’s

responsibility. When victor creates the monster that destroys his life he is driven by ambition. He wants to do something that no one else has done, reanimate life. Victor does so but it doesn’t come out the way he wanted, after the creation of the monster victor runs and hides allowing the monster to escape.

The monster believed that Victor would accept him, but after he realized that not only did Victor not want to assume his position in the monster’s life, but society also rejected him, it became a transitory thought, and instead became replaced with his bloodthirst towards Victor and his loved ones, which he knew would hurt way worse than just killing him; making him lonely like himself. Both Victor and the monster partook in horrid acts, in which held horrendous actions; the main one being Victor creating the monster in the first place which in result caused the both of them heartbreak, loneliness, and pain. If Victor wouldn’t have created the monster, then his life would not be filled with so much grief and emptiness; Victor is the true monster, although they are both the primal protagonists as much as they are the antagonists because of the display of the emotions they both portray as lamenting humans/monsters, and the power they give to nature in order to destroy one another. Victor used nature to his advantage, although it was wrong; Victor used nature to create and destroy the monster; he used the