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Victor The Real Monster In Frankenstein

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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

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