Victor Is The Real Monster In Frankenstein

The creature was truly miserable and hated the fact that he was even alive. All he wanted was someone to accept him and like him for who he was. Victor was once again acting in a monstrous manner when he refused to make a friend for the creature. The fact that the creature was always shut out from society and abandoned by anyone he ever came in contact with shows that perhaps if he had a companion, he would not have been acting out in so many rages, which results in no longer having to seek revenge. There would be no revenge to seek because he would be happy and satisfied with his life.

While Victor feels utter hatred for his creation, the creature shows that he is not a purely evil being. The creature's animated description of events reveals his sensitivity and kindness. He assists a group of poor peasants and saves a girl from drowning, but because of his outward appearance, he is rewarded with beatings and disgust. Torn between revengefulness and compassion, the monster ends up lonely and tormented by remorse. Even the death of his creator offers only bittersweet relief: joy because Victor has caused him so much suffering, sadness because Victor is the only person with whom he has had any sort of relationship.

He should have stayed with his creature and not run away from him. Since his creature was just created; he was highly confused with all the new surroundings around him and he needed Victor the most at the time, but instead of being there for his creature he decided to abandoned him because he realise his mistake. In the book it says that; “I took

Later in the novel this involuntary actions cause the creature to commit murder. I believe that Victor 1st thought was that his creation would have been something beautiful. Something he would have been proud to claim as his creation. He does not see that this creation is hideous until the last minute. Victor was so involved with his fantasy that he could not see what he was really creating.

Victor's Creation, which he had created later on in the story, had ran off and has gained knowledge that a being like him isn't safe around the humans. Many that he has met have either ran in terror or they have tried

Victor’s cruelty comes from his lack of empathy, and his failure to take responsibility for the creature is the same as leaving a child. The creature is created as a child in a large man’s body; his mind is completely blank, so when he is left miserable, he absorbs the negative aspects in his environment due to the lack of a parental figure. If Victor stayed to take care of the

In Mary Shelley's and Gris Grimly's graphic novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, the main character whom is intrigued in philosophy, creates a creature to prove his theories and desire in giving life to the dead. This occurs as Victor wanders further down the path of philosophy and secretly began to build his own perfect being to who he thought was just magnificent. Nevertheless, the creature was brought to life, but in that moment Victor emotions toward the creature quickly changed. When the creature awoke, Victor suddenly felt fear and saw the creature as a catastrophe. Although of this, the creature is still a human.

Victor says it was his parent job to direct happiness and love towards him in order to fulfil their duties as they had given life to him but despite saying this victor chooses to treat the life form that he created ‘the monster / creature’ badly this eventually lead to the death of his own family and misery to himself. Even though victor said his parents

Victor’s many encounters with the deaths of those close to him cause him to develop a morbid interest in reanimating the dead. Victor is driven to achieve a God-like status and in doing so Victor creates a creature that will never experience love and compassion from another living being. Victor strongly believes that “a new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. I might in process of time… renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption” (Shelley 52) and works to create a living being with science. After succeeding in his ambition and spending so much time on this discovery, Victor cannot cope with what he has done, and rejects his creation the second it becomes animated. In the end it is Victor’s lack of respect for the natural order of life and lack of understanding for the creature that add to Victor’s monstrous

Victor felt he owed it to the creature to give him a chance and listened to the proposal he had to make, which was the creation of a new, female, creature, with which the monster could spend his days with alone from human society. The creature promised to stop his wrongdoings if and only if Victor would create him this companion (134). Victor eventually agreed to this proposal. However, as he was almost complete with this new being, Victor “tore to pieces” the female creature (154). The monster, which had laid eyes upon this betrayal, warned Victor, “I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you” (155). Victor ruined the one chance he had at peace with his creation. Whilst he should have bestowed life upon this new female creature in hope of forever ending his miseries, he instead sent his life into a world of torment and horror, for which the creature would now engage upon him. He could have stopped his being’s treacherous acts, which were the result of his abandonment in the first place, but let the creature back into the work even more enraged and vengeful than before. The irresponsible action of not stopping his monster while he had the chance was the final blow to his already dissatisfied life and led to the climax of his downfall.

We learn that regardless of all the corruption the creature has faced, he still holds reverence for Victor. He goes on to say, “(Victor) is worthy of love and admiration among men”(190). This quotation gives us insight into the Creature’s emotional state and perspective towards Victor. Although throughout the book the creature was set on Victor’s destruction, he ultimately expresses his respect for Victor. The creature believes Victor was most the prized man of all and deserved the most praise, which only cements the idea that despite all that has transpired between the two, the creature still harbors love for his

In the novel Frankenstein, the real Monster is Victor himself. It’s simple to understand and very clear to see. He may not look like one or realize that it is him, but many things throughout the book point you to the conclusion that the creature isn’t the monster. It stuck out to me the entire time reading this, but there were a couple spots that really made me realize who the real monster was. For example in Ch. 5, where he startled himself by his own creation and again in Ch.

Instead, Victor simply said that so he could avoid taking responsibility and placing his own life in danger. This is not only immature, but selfish and Victor essentially would sacrifice a life to avoid taking responsibility. Victor not only refuses to save others but willingly puts others lives at risk. The creature had asked him to fulfil his demand, and although Victor did have reason (however flawed) to refused he was well aware of the danger that he placed himself and all others around him in. Even when Victor is warned that the creature “will be with [him] on [his] wedding night” yet still decides to go through with marrying Elizabeth, directly putting her life at risk (Shelley 147).

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor and his creature share many characteristics although they are opposing forces because of their differences. The story starts with Robert Walton recounting his time trapped in impassable ice where he met Victor Frankenstein, who looked very ill. Victor tells Walton about how he grew up in Swiss family and had a joyous childhood with loving parents. When Victor got older, he attended the university of Ingolstadt, where he became fascinated with the secret of life and after many years, he thought he had discovered it. Frankenstein had taken the body parts of old corpse’s and designed a creature, and one night, he brought his creation to life. When he saw the creature he was horrified by the sight of

Victor was not there for his creature in order to fulfill his parental duty toward the creature. Victor neither supplied for the creatures basic needs, nor upheld his parental responsibilities to make sure he would develop properly. Instead the monster was neglected by Victor, because Victor “[failed] to provide for the [creatures] basic physical needs for adequate food, clothing, shelter, and medical treatment" (Cicchetti 2016). The monster was also“emotional [maltreated]” by Victor because he failed to provide for his “basic emotional needs for psychological safety and security, acceptance and