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. 11- Ch. 17 when the creature began to explain his journey and experience. Throughout chapter 5, many things convinced me that Victor was the real monster. For starters, when he finally finished his creation and got scared himself because of how hideous it looked. It obviously wasn’t his intentions to make him look so bad, but he then didn’t even except the creature as his own. He wanted nothing to do with it, his experiment failed, and he was scared to know what it was capable of. Well, what he didn’t know was that without the love and care it needed, the outcome was even worse than what he thought. The “father” figure in this novel is Victor, while the creature is the “child”, and like most parents who don’t know the responsibilities, they just throw them away and let someone else care for their own child. This comes into play a little later when the creature …show more content…
Not knowing how extremely hideous he was, he ventured out into public to learn himself. People beat him, ran away from him, and screamed in terror. They didn’t know that all he wanted was acceptance, he was scary looking, and ugly. Finally when he found a family that he thought would take him in, it turns out they didn’t. The boy thought he was hurting his father, but that wasn’t the case. He just wanted answers to his questions, he wanted love. That’s something Victor never gave
In the novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, the creature and its creator, Victor Frankenstein, share a lot of similarities throughout the story. The relationship shared between the two resembles that of a father and his son. Since Victor created it , the creature inherits certain traits of Victor’s without realizing it. Victor and the creature both have an overpowering thirst for knowledge, a love for the beauty of nature and a tendency to use it as a scapegoat, a depressing feeling of isolation from people, a desire for revenge, and the ability to play God. The relationship between Victor and the creature does not develop like a normal father-son relationship, nor does it develop as a good versus evil relationship. Both characters show hero and villain qualities throughout the novel as their relationship develops.
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.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the author shows the audience that not only that the character Victor is creating life but he is also making people and himself suffer. In the begining of the novel victor shows that he is so excited and fascinated he on creating a person, later in the novel he starts getting a feeling which contains the emotions of being scared, fearful, etc he’s scared of the monster once he creates him. In chapter 5 he sounds excited but then very frightened “I had gazed on him while unfinished, he was ugly then;but when those muscles and joints…..” he thought the monster was ugly he was scared of him on page 56 he expresses how he his night is going which he is very shock “I passed the night wretchedly. Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt palpitation of every artery at others ….. Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment”. Victor is suffering from the disappointment of the monster.
Due to Victor’s unwillingness to accept him, the creature was unable to conform to societal norms. From the creature’s very first moments, he is feared by others - the instant his eyes open, his creator cries out in terror and runs to his quarters. If only Victor had stayed and attempted to nurture his creation, instead of having “turned from [him] in disgust” (93), the creature may have enjoyed a gentle, upbringing in which he
Instead of acknowledging his responsibility to her creation and greeting the creature with love and compassion, he ran away. This would lead to severe effects that ruin Victor’s life. Parents are, or should be, responsible for the lives they create. Like a parent, Victor is morally responsible for his creation. Victor, however, did not take responsibility for the creature he created.
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.
He could never get that because of what he looked like. So, he becomes violent. He just wanted to be loved so badly it made him evil. Once he found Victor’s journal and figured out how he was created, he wanted revenge. He wanted Victor to feel what he felt.
Even though this might be true, he was treated horribly, which led him to react in inhumane ways. Victor is the true "monster" because he neglected an unknowledgeable being. His creation was alone in the world with no one's support and rather with humanity's disdain. Victor's creation was trying to get humanity's acceptance. However, they treated him horribly since he was born, and was not able to "distinguish between the operations of my various senses" (Shelley 118).
Instead, Victor honestly believed that he will be able to control his "son." Therefore, as
The word ‘doppelganger’ originated in Germany and can loosely be translated to ‘double-walker’ it was later adapted into British culture being a word to describe ‘a ghostly counterpart of a living person’. The monster could be seen as the completely representation of Victor’s evil side, one way this could be argued is the idea of Victor’s repressed sexual desires. Victor says how he was “disturbed by the wildest dreams” just after he falls asleep after creating the monster. The adjective ‘disturbed’ could link to the idea of being interrupted or fragmented, this could just mean that the dream was so abnormal because the sleep he was having was abnormal due to the situation or it could link to Victor’s mental health and the fact he is going
Humans are the Real Monsters: Although many people see the Creature as the monster in this novel, it becomes apparent that Victor is the real monster. The Creature did nothing but seek love from his creator and was abandoned. Victor is the monster because he abandoned his creation and showed no remorse for it until he was confronted by the Creature.
The pity that the reader once felt towards this child-like creature who was abandoned upon creation, is turned to hatred and fear towards this monster who slaughters innocents. One doesn't blame the parents of a mass murderer for the crimes of their offspring simply because they gave birth to him. So why should Victor be held accountable for the treacherous deeds of his creation? The portrayal of the monster as the villain in this story attributes to the conflicting feelings of whether he is purely good or evil.
He always puts the blame on his passions or his wishes, never himself. He even blames his own father. According to Victor, his actions are the the fault of the “spirit of good” or chance or knowledge. When he does finally acknowledge that the creation of the creature and the way the creature grew up is his fault, he claims he’s only “not altogether free from blame”. He does not fully take the blame, and then he goes on to basically say that everybody makes mistakes, so it’s okay that he reanimated and abandoned a human who had already been dead. He calls his creation a catastrophe, a wretch, a miserable monster, a filthy demon, a devil, a depraved wretch. What Victor does not acknowledge is that he was the one who made the creature this way. When it comes to describing Victor, he is seen as “noble and godlike in ruin”. He is not seen as a monster who did irreparable damage to another human being, but as a fallen god. What’s more is that Victor does not hesitate to blame himself for the deaths of William, Henry, Elizabeth, and even Justine. Though he is, in a way, responsible for their deaths, it’s by extension. He won’t take the blame for what he’s truly responsible for-creating and abandoning this creature with nothing but fear, confusion, and
The definition of a monster is very arguable. A monster is typically seen as something inhuman and hideously scary. A human could also be a monster in that they could be extremely wicked or cruel. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, creator of the creature, is the real monster because he is a hypocrite, he created the monster and abandoned him, and he is extremely selfish.