Victor Frankenstein: The True Monster In Frankenstein

In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein should be depicted as the real monster for attempting to recreate God’s creation. Instead, it is his creation who has to pay the price for Victor’s wrong doings. While his creation pays the price, he still finds a way to become his own hero as well. It may go unsaid but the monster has the will to keep on going. Through his life he still finds a way to live. The monster in Frankenstein talks about himself for a bit and says this “ I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster (159.)” The monster tries to act right but it seems as if whatever he does his actions are misunderstood. Yet, like a child he is pure and unaware of his doings. The courageous step he takes is asking Victor Frankenstein to create him a mate to live his life with. The monster is aware of how fearful his creator is of him but still approaches him and is not afraid to ask for his request. It was a baby step into a new

In Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster is portrayed as a grotesque abomination. However, as Hopkins states in Contending Forces, the cultural and geographical situations, or lack thereof, in which one matures in play a crucial role in the proper development of one’s mind and brain. The monster is simply a product of circumstance. The lack of social interactions alongside geographical isolation propelled the daemon to be alienated from society, ultimately resulting in a lack of morals and an underdeveloped psyche. By being a culmination of his surroundings and experiences it is revealed that the true monstrous entities are the factors that leave the daemon predisposed to fail in a modern society. Arguably, Victor created a being, while the circumstances that said being was placed in “created” a monster. Shelley purposefully terrorizes the monster with such intensity to provoke and justify the overarching theme in this novel which states that people should not be judged on their physical appearance.

At first glance, the monster in Frankenstein is a symbol of evil, whose only desire is to ruin lives. He has been called "A creature that wreaks havoc by destroying innocent lives often without remorse. He can be viewed as the antagonist, the element Victor must overcome to restore balance and tranquility to the world." But after the novel is looked at on different levels, one becomes aware that the creature wasn't responsible for his actions, and was just a victim of circumstance. The real villain of Frankenstein isn't the creature, but rather his creator, Victor.

Another aspect of romanticism that is prevalent in Shelly’s novel is the way Frankenstein, and his creation, are controlled by their emotions. Frankenstein is continually ruled by his feelings of fear, guilt, and love throughout the novel. For instance, he works for nearly two years to accomplish his goal of creating life, only to immediately flee because of fear when his work comes to life. This was a major illustration for the reader that despite being an experienced scientist Frankenstein was still ruled by emotions. In a large portion of the novel Frankenstein seems to be completely motivated by his fear of the creature he created. When his brother died, he feared people discovering his secret so he let an innocent woman stand trial. When the monster requested a partner, his fear of the monster propelled him to try, only to have his fear of having two creatures alive stop him from completing the work. At the end of the story, Frankenstein’s anger over the death of his family members propelled him to chase the creature across the frozen waters, which lead to his death. Frankenstein was a brilliant thinker who was continually consumed and motivated by his emotions. Frankenstein’s creation was also very much controlled by his emotions. After he is created and Frankenstein flees from him, he searches across the land to find companions. The creature is repeatedly rejected because of his looks, and because of that he is self-conscience of the fact that he is

In Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, the actions by Victor had substantial consequences that initially would make one believe that Victor is a monster. Despite that, Victor is not a monster, though he is in no way an innocent man. He did not intend to bring life to a monstrous creature that inflicted harm on many people, yet he still needs to be held responsible. The definition of a monster is a person who has no regard for the well-being of others, one who harms and terrorizes others for their own self-gain. Going off of that definition, the creature is a monster.

For years, people have thought of Frankenstein as the monster, though the idea could be easily understood, Frankenstein is truly the doctor. The cunning mind behind Dr. Frankenstein and his gruesome monster is an author known by the name of Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley faced many despair filled moments throughout her life, events including, miscarriages, suicides, and affairs. These events marked the beginning of Frankenstein and with it a new era of writing.

​Victor decides to destroy the mate he is creating because he feels tricked from the creatures smile. Victor is afraid that the girl creature is going to reject him and roam somewhere in the world, she might be stronger than he is, and she might even kill him. i know this because it shows and says in the book what i just typed here. When Victor Frankenstein destroyed the monster it made the monster very angry because as you know victor destroyed it because of the creatures creepy smile and at that time victor didn't feel tricked by the monster but when he seen the creatures smile he felt

The portrayal of Victor to the reader in the first part of the novel is completely different than the portrayal made by the monster, when introduced as a character that is capable of speech and thoughts. The monster, two years after his creation, has a conversation with Frankenstein and is quite upset with the nature of the human race. After being rejected by every person he tried to form a relationship with, he bargains with Victor. The monster having only been alive for a short period of time, has already been hardened by the cruel realities of the world and is set upon living out of sight with a second monster, whom Victor had promised to create, though he never holds up to the deal. The fiend, in response, speaks of Victor as the “monster”, the one who had created his horrid situation, yelling at him, “You, my tyrant and tormentor,” (143). The monster views Victor as the wrongdoer. By placing him in such a horrible world, he sees Victor Frankenstein as selfish, the embodiment of evil and as a monster. This view of Victor is quite different from the original perspective given to the

Tragic hero’s can come in all shapes and sizes. They may appear as a villain in multiple works of literature. In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the tragic hero is the creature. He is a main character whose faults led to his overall downfall. Often, the creature is misinterpreted by people to be named Frankenstein because he is such a prominent character. While the creature is able to identify the faults in mankind it is only after extreme suffering on his own part.

Here however, is where the Monster begins to truly straddle the line between, one of the most human and inhuman characters in the novel. He commits the murders to cause Frankenstein pain, not for fun, but so that Victor may experience but a fraction of the pain he himself has felt. Growing up, the monster was spurned because of his appearance, even attacked because of it, being left “grievously bruised by stones, and other missile weapons”(chapter XI, page 41). Being rejected by the rest of the world, the Monster turns to his creator as a last hope of finding happiness. He demands for Victor to create a bride for him, and promises that in return for this Frankenstein

The novel of Frankenstein shows how the monster demonstrates a mad character; the monster is mainly looking for justice, other than injustice. The monster became more freely after the death of Victor, since there wasn't really anything else he could do but just move on and accept the fact that people will always see him different. The novel Frankenstein mainly demonstrates the significance of the monster through murder. Victor shouldn't have rejected his creation just because he didn't turn out to be what Victor had wanted, because it only lead the monster to suffering by sadness, and then leading to the monster seeking for revenge. Due to the fact that everyone feared the monster, and wouldn't give him a chance to express himself due to his

A monster is a inhumanly cruel or sinful being that causes bad things and does horrible crimes. So who is the monster in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley? There are a lot of different people that could be a front candidate to be the true monster of the book. Victor is the monster for many reasons like he made the horrible creature and he ignored it. He also didn’t protect his family as well as he should’ve. Victor is the monster of Frankenstein and he did a lot of bad things that caused the monster to do all the bad things it did. He made a bad choice and it lead to more bad things that caused deaths that weren’t supposed to happen but it’s all because of him.

The real monster in the novel is the creator and the all so ambitious Victor Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein is a very determined and obsessive character that tries to accomplish the impossible. Victor Frankenstein's ultimate goal is to create a new form of human species that will have physical and mental qualities far superior than the present day human being. To accomplish this impossible feat, Victor knows he must commit endless hours of his time and life to reach this seemingly impossible task. While although Victor does ultimately achieve his goal, Victor Frankenstein undergoes major changes before and after the completion of his prototype. The goal Victor set out to accomplished seemed rewarding and in his eyes something that will be

In the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the monster is usually thought of as the villain. But what if that is wrong? This popular novel was written in the early 1800’s, which is around the same time period that scientists really started to experiment with electricity, which might be a reason behind why Shelley wrote this novel. In the book, Victor Frankenstein wants to reanimate a corpse and become famous for his work. But, the end product of his experiment is terrifying, so he runs away. At the beginning of the novel, Victor Frankenstein is controlled by his fear, which leads him to later abandon his monster and essentially kill Justine by not standing up for her. But at the end, Victor learned from his mistakes, and made one last

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