Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the character Victor Frankenstein illustrates betrayal in the way he abandons his creation, with no hesitation he leaves him behind. With the feeling of abandonment ,the creature feels anger towards Victor which leads the “monster” to become a villain. Love and family are all the monster wants, but it is something that Victor could not give due to his own internal battles. As result, the monster begins to take Victor’s loved ones such as: little William and his wife Elizabeth. The monster kills

The monster has no relationship with Victor besides a need for revenge. When Victor created the monster, he looked at him in disgust. He abandoned his creation after looking at the creation with horror. This feels the monster with loneliness and rage, so he goes and lives on Felix’s farm. However, he realizes how alone he is, so he returns to Frankenstein and demands a female partner. He promises to cease all relations with his creator if he can give him a mate. Victor reluctantly agrees and builds a bride for the fiend he created. However, he destroys the female and dumps the body in the lake, much to the anger of the monster, shown when he states “Shall each man,” cried he, “find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?”

The creature was outraged so he killed Victor’s brother and set up Justine for the murder so Victor loses two people close to him. Frankenstein’s creature says "I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?" (Ch.17, pg.174) Not being accepted has caused anger and loneliness in both creatures which causes them to kill they both just wanted a friend/ companion and they wouldn’t have been the “monsters” some thought they

This time Victor allows the creature to approach him. After some time the creature demands a female companion and it is only with pity and much argumentation that Victor consents. While the creature watches, Victor begins working on the female monster and then he destroys it. Victor, by doing this, is ignoring the creature's feelings and breaking his promise. Therefore, Victor Frankenstein, after much hard work, rejects his own creation due to its monstrosity.

Frankenstein stands as a victim, along with the very people he treasures most, to his own deeds. Victor noted, "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" (42). The fruit of his experimentation, his monster, murders many of those close to the scientist. He loses his long time friend, Henry Clerval, as well as his wife, Elizabeth, to his creation. His younger brother William and his beloved servant Justine were also brought to their sad ends at the hands of the creation. The monster brings fear and suffering to all those he meets, if not by cold blooded murder, then by the sheer horror of his corpselike appearance. Though not

(Shelley). The fact that Frankenstein fled from his creation very shortly after it came to life, proves how he refused to accept his obligations and responsibilities after his creature was created. ?The [creature] is Frankenstein?s abandoned child? (Mellor Abandonment 357). It is unfair to bring something into the world, and then not teach it how to survive. Victor was intimidated by his hideous characteristics and felt threatened by the creature. He did not know his creation at all, so he had no right to judge him. This is an example of how various people and society place too much judgment on physical appearance. The creature had just come into the world for the first time, and the first thing he saw was his creator screaming for his life as a result of his appearance. This traumatized the creation, and caused him to seek revenge on Frankenstein. This novel shows how when people are prejudice against physical deformity or ugliness, it automatically characterizes that person as bad or monstrous (Halberstam 59). Victor was the one who gave him these characteristics; so in fact, he is to blame for the creature?s appearance being so monstrous.

He lives in fear, running from one place to another looking for a place to hide. Even his acts of kindness are met with violence and hate on the humans’ side. For example, he kindly collets firewood for his neighbors every day and places it in front of their cottage door, yet when the son finds him at his cottage trying to become acquainted with his blind father, he drives him away. Also, after he saves a girl from drowning, the man accompanying her shoots him. The monster protests this social injustice by swearing to revenge himself against all humans.

Once he’s brought the monster to life, Victor is terrified by what he’s made with his own hands, causing him to abandon the monster, hoping that it will die on it’s own. Later in the book, the reader as well as Victor learn that the monster wasn’t a vile creature at all, but rather a man who needed love. If victor had thought logically creating the monster, thought about how a thing that has been freshly made most likely didn’t have a monstrous bone in its body, the tragedy that followed after the monster was made, could have been avoided. Towards the end of the book, the monster reappears in Frankenstein’s life, threatening to kill all whom he loves if he does not make the monster a life companion. Victor refuses, and in response Frankenstein kills those that he loves, before he disappears himself, presumably off to kill

The monster being confused by this, seeks to find Victor but is entirely rejected as Victor doesn’t want anything to do with him. Left to fend for himself, the monster begins to learn more about himself and adopt human characteristics including compassion and knowledge in which he learns from the De Lacey family. After being rejected from society because of his appearance he feels lonely and turns to Victor to create him a mate and promises to never seek him again. When Victor doesn’t keep his promise, the monster turns to anger and hopes to bring agony to Victor. “Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone? You my creator abhor me”. (chapter 10 page 89)

The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.” (169). In the darkness of the creatures life, being turned away multiple times before, at this point he still decides to try and do good by attempting to save the girl. This highlights the theme of appearance because he is shot because he looks like a monster, even though he is attempting to help the girl.

Although Victor suffers a specific tragic flaw, he should not be considered or looked at as the enemy in the story. The whole story it is a constant battle of emotions between which character to feel sympathy for. This is mainly due to the fact that there is a constant change of point of view which allows readers to understand both sides of the story. Neither Frankenstein nor the monster should be looked at wrongly in the story. This is because Frankenstein had no clear intentions to bring havoc among his family or the people of his village. He only realizes what a mistake he has made at the end of his study when it was too late. He even tries to hunt the monster down for multiple years after the death he caused among his family members. He

In the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster out of old body parts. In the secrecy of his apartment, he brings the monster to life. When he sees the monstrosity he created, however, the sight horrifies him. The monster, enraged that his creator left him alone to basically die, kills Victor’s youngest brother. The monster tells Victor when they finally meet again, he’ll stop killing his family if Victor creates him a female companion, equally as unattractive as him.

Victor is devastated by this loss, and almost immediately realizes that he indirectly caused this death. “The story Shelley gives Frankenstein to tell oscillates between the deaths of loved ones and other losses he suffers and the care and ministrations that sustain him after each blow.”(Yousef 1). It’s a never ending cycle; the creature wants a father and attention, so it ends up killing Victor’s family as retribution for his abandonment. The creature is a classic example of created turning against created, as Lucifer turned against God for abandoning him, the creature shall turn against Victor for abandoning him.

When Victor Frankenstein attempts to create a female monster, his original creation discoveries him on the deserted island where he has started his second experiment. As the male monster leaves, Victor states, “But I had suffered him to depart, and he had directed his course towards the mainland. I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge” (Shelley 123). In other words, Victor describes his reaction to other victims of the monster’s hateful actions towards life knowing that whatever the monster accomplishes, it cannot be good. Due to Victor’s past experiences with the monster, he is the lead to the realization that then ensures Victor’s sacrifices to save humanity from this creation of terroir.

Throughout the story the Frankenstein’s monster is referred to as a true monster because of the different acts that he has committed, yet throughout the story the reader is made aware of the compassion and morality that Victor’s” creature possesses, like a real human. Victor is the true monster in this horror novel, because he possesses many of the characteristics that would define what a monster is. Victor Frankenstein created his monster due to his eagerness for alchemy and his unnatural obsession with being like God. Victor does not take into account the consequences of his actions. Victor rejects his creation the moment he lays eyes on it, and this caused the monster to perform the acts that he did. The cruel rejection is what begins the a journey that will soon enough be end of Victor. After Victor decides to go back on creating his monster a mate, he then destroys the half made creature which anger Frankenstein’s monster and this cause him wreak revenge on his creator. The monster tells Victor that he will be at his wedding night and the killing spree beings, Victor loses his father, and his friend Henry Clerval because of what Victor had done. In my opinion I believe that should have stuck to creating his monster a mate and this would have made things easier for him and