Victor The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

To begin, Victor betrays nature with the physical creation of the monster. Upon giving the creature life, Victor becomes horrified of what he had created and essentially left the creature in fear. It is nature’s responsibility to create life, not mankind. Since Victor gives the monster life, he has created something unnatural and he himself even admits his mistake when he states, “I have created a monster.” To make matters worse, Victor had left his creation on its own when the monster had no prior experience in the world and was learning everything from this point on. The monster, at this point, reflected the innocent nature of a child and needed to be taught properly about life. Victor’s

Victor is also a villain in a Archetype sense. Victor was trying to play god, when he created the creature, and that is something he shouldn't have done, because humans can't become too powerful, even though they always try. Victor became so obsessed with creating life, that it clouded his judgment, and took up all of his time and energy. On page 66, just before Justine's trial, Victor thought to himself, "During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture. It was to be whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings." This line shows two things, first Victor knew that Justine, and William's death was his fault. Also, he knew that his experiments, shouldn't have been done, and were against the laws of nature and god. On page 39, Victor says, "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source, many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me." This quote shows how Victor wanted to be like a god. He wanted to be admired, and praised as a species creator. And this want is another reason he was the real villain of Frankenstein.

To study his passion of natural philosophy, he, "..will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." Victor is perspicacious and well prepared to gain knowledge from the professors he is soon to come in contact with. While Victor triumphs over his studies , his fervor and enthusiasm over, “Life and death... which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me,” constraints his social life to a minimum, including the communication with his once inseparable family back in Geneva. His inspiration of creation consumed him as his, “... cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.” Victor prepares his animation to have the most handsome features , but awakens the horrid sight of the monsters transparent skin , black lips, and yellow eyes. To his appalled reaction, he leaves his apartment in hopes of freeing himself from the atrocity his own hands

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.

When reading the the first few chapters Victor explains and shows emotions towards science. According to page 12 of chapter 2, it says “...On this occasion a man of great research in nature philosophy was with us, and

While Victor is looked upon to be a normal man while the creature is seen as a monster specifically because of his physical appearance. At eight feet, with a gigantic body and a disfigured face, society only looks upon the creature with fear and disgust. However, I wonder, couldn’t Victor be a monster as well? He abandoned the creature in the horror of the moment and even attempts to take the creature’s life at one point. To me, the creature’s feelings of rage, revenge, and hurt are what any “normal” human would have felt if left to fend for themselves on their own, with no experience of love or kindness from anyone.

The power of knowledge has also affected Victor in a negative way. Ever since Victor was a child, he had always been interested in science. As he got older, he got even more interested in specific topics within natural philosophy, particularly the human body. After his talk with his professor, he believed he could create an animate object from an inanimate object, in which this case the object turned into a monster. “My labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete” (57). Victor has put a lot of effort into learning the anatomy of a human body and pursues the creation of one, yet he doesn’t realize how small the margin of error would be. Later on in the book, the monster demands Victor to create a

The monster doesn’t deserve to be destroyed because he has done nothing to have to be. Victor created the monster because he couldn’t get past the fact of his belief in him being able to bring life back after its deceased. Once he proved his point, he immediately regretted it. The monster came out weak and child like. He didn’t know how to walk, or talk. He knew as much as a newborn. Once Victor abandoned him, the monster set out on his own and made something of himself. He learned to read on his own, talk on his own, walk on his own, and be kind on his own. Victor abandoning him after being his father type scarred the monster which caused him to lash out and start taking out Victors happiness too by killing his loved ones.

This need of power led Victor to create what he believed would be a beautiful human being. But he failed to see that combining the most beautiful human features does not necessarily create a beautiful human being. He was inspired by scientists who ...acquired new and almost limitless powers... (Shelley, Frankenstein, P. 47). Victor sought this unlimited power to the extent of taking the role of God. He not only penetrated nature, but also he assumed power of reproduction in a maniacal desire to harness these modes of reproduction in order to become acknowledged, respected, and obeyed as a father. While bringing his creation into the world he was himself alienated from society, and isolated himself from the community. Isolation and parental neglect cause viciousness within man. Because of his upbringing, Victor had no sense of empathy, and therefore could not realize the potential harm he was creating towards himself and his creation. The sole purpose of his project was an attempt to gain power, but instead of power Victor realized that a morally irresponsible scientific development could release a monster that can destroy human civilization.

Because of Victor being secluded, his manner and the way goes about his education began to change. He becomes more obsessive. This leads to the madness of Victor creating the monster since no one is there to comfort him. “ Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, a shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.” ( Shelley 68) Because of the isolation, Victor’s mentally and physical health is starting to decline. Because of the time Victor spent in creating the monster, he had not only become ill, but has become sleep deprived and malnourished.

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

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

The audience can assume that Victor runs to his knowledge and education as his form of a friend. Victor works tirelessly to not only build, but perfect his creature to his liking for two long years. Believing that he has the solution to betterment of humankind, he loses sleep and cuts off all contact with family we see the effects of his madness while building his creation has not only affected him emotionally, but also physically as clearly stated: “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever,

(22) After this point Victor spent much time alone with a book learning all he could and becoming obsessed with science. He got to the point in his life where he went off to college to learn more, and figured out a way to create life. His isolation came to an even greater magnitude never leaving his home unless to go to class to learn more. That is what he did, he created life in a span of spending two years alone. ¨I had worked for nearly two years, for the purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.¨ (35) Now had Victor had someone to share this ambition with, or talk reason, nothing would have come to this, but he didn’t and as a result that night he saw the creature and fled. - During his childhood, he still didn’t spend a lot of time with people.

Victor was just a typical kid from Geneva. At the end of a childhood spent with Elizabeth and friend Henry Clerval, Victor enters the university of Ingolstadt to study natural philosophy and chemistry. There, he is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life and, after several years of research, becomes convinced that he has found it. He found a lot of spare body parts and organs then combined them together to create a creature like no other. Victor was so happy when he successfully created the monster. However, things went wrong. Victor’s youngest sibling got killed, even Justine (house helper) got accused of killing him. Then the monster said to Victor to make him a female version of him so he won’t feel lonely. Victor didn’t make one and the monster got mad so he killed Elizabeth the day they were supposed to be married. Let’s go back to the part where Walton saw Victor on ice. He was weak and could barely even move. Victor died and the monster died as well because he has nothing to live for