Who Is The Villain? - Frankenstein Or The Monster?

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the tale of the protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Both Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s creation’s questionable actions lead them both to be considered morally ambiguous figures. Victor is ambitious with good intentions, but his ambition leads to bad results. The Creature is an innately kind and compassionate person who commits abominable actions due to how others treat him. Their moral ambiguity is significant, as it reveals that an obsession with ambition distorts one’s morals.

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.

Victor started to distance himself from his colleagues, friends and family while he became more engaged in his research. He is so deeply involved with his research that he turns his home into a laboratory. The more Victor works on his research, the more selfish he becomes. He even confesses that “a new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me” (pg 48). His own words prove that there was no logical reason for Victor to create his monster besides the glory of creating life.

Frankenstein is a novel about a mad scientist named Victor Frankenstein creating a monster. The novel depicts Victor as the protagonist and the monster, who will be addressed as Promotes, is depicted as the antagonist. However, their personality and reactions say otherwise. Ruth Cristina Hernández Ching composed an article addressing that the protagonist, or Victor, is the true anti-hero and Prometheus is the hero. Victor and Prometheus fulfill their roles of anti-hero and hero by their relationships and relationships.

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.

In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the unnamed creature brings terror to civilians and commits horrific acts against his creator, Victor Frankenstein. However, his redeemable acts of kindness makes his character morally ambiguous. He struggles between doing well and causing trouble because of isolation, the excerpts of society, and his pursuit for love.

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Frankenstein was a coward that used science selfishly to become a God without taking responsibility of the retaliation of defying the laws of Nature. The Monster did kill many and became a murderer, acts that cannot be forgot except that they are the consequence of the negligence of its creator. That is why ethics are necessary, as people like Victor Frankenstein, in the name of the human civilization, do terrible and unethical acts. Victor had an obsession, just like the Monster, the first one with building and the other one with destroying. In the end, the Monster could have been the result of an experiment that could have to be useful for society in some way, at least, better than an indifferent criminal. Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the biggest threat to society as he has a negligent attitude, governed by impulsive attitudes, Frankenstein, in the beginning, tries to be good but the Monster embraced his darker side, his ambition, and egotism which consumed Victor's entire life, ending up in misery that involved not only the one playing as God and its creation but everyone around them that had nothing to do with

Frankenstein is to be “sometimes considered one of the first science fiction novels” (Fox,stacy ”Romantic and Gothic Representation in Frankenstein”). Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley. In this novel the main characters where Victor Frankenstein, his creation the monster, Robert Walton, Elizabeth Lavenza, Alphonse Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval. Frankenstein starts out with a normal boy named Victor Frankenstein who discovers an early interest in science. Victor later goes off to college to study science and ends up creating a monster. Throughout the novel the monster is stereotyped by his looks and is traumatized and goes for revenge against his creator when Victor refuses to make him a

When Victor created the monster, he did not care, did not feed it, did not provide a home, or teach the things the monster needed to know in life so Victor eventually abandons him. Because of this, the monster becomes lonely and has no one to keep him company so the creature is trying to survive on its own becoming stronger. Victor isolates himself from the world trying to forget he made the monster because he had an obsession for creating life resulting to him becoming ill. Then, Victor tries to sustain himself attempting to live a normal life after William’s death. “No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air” (74). This action has left Victor stuck between his family and being able to live on his own. Finally, Victor tells Robert about a lonely monster he created who ends up being judged by appearance causing Victor himself to feel

He spends his nights pacing back and forth disgusted by the thought of his creation. The nightmares he has reflects the horror he has done and foreshadow future events in the novel. He talks about the monster as ‘Devil’, ‘vile insect’ and ‘Abhorred monster’. Later in the novel, the creature finds Victor and wants to make amends. Victor trembles in horror when he sees his creation and becomes furious and malicious saying, “Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!” (Shelley, 113). This quote is ironic because Victor set out to create life, and in doing so, the creation which he brought to life ended up killing his

Throughout history and in literature there always has been a conflict between good and evil. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, however, the characterization of good and evil are a bit more blurred and the determination of which of the two main characters was good and which one was evil is left to the reader. However, to most, it seems as though Frankenstein’s monster is the innocent and good one based on the evidence one has been given in the story. Frankenstein, a scientist, created the creature and gave it life, but abandoned it because of the creature’s physical appearance. This simple and selfish act of Dr. Frankenstein set the stage for the rest of the tragic acts that took place in Frankenstein, including the creature’s rejection from society, and his lack of any teaching.

The main characters in Frankenstein are Victor Frankenstein and the Monster. Victor Frankenstein is a determined person who takes pride into learning natural philosophy. He is a motivated person who works nonstop and never gave up on creating his creation. “These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour. My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emanciated with confinement. Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize” (page 44). Frankenstein is a noble savage who starts off as a kind monster in the beginning of his existence and then turns into a revengeful monster towards the end of the story by hurting Victor’s loved ones. He is a caring person when it comes to looking

     From the time when Victor was first starting his creation up until the end of the book, I think he is always seen as a selfish man who caused death and loss of others upon himself and his family. The monster all through the book has stayed the same person, but had to come to the conclusion that the only way to get back at his creator for all the turmoil he has put him through is try to do the same to him, by killing everyone that Victor has ever loved. I can see how the monster would want to do this, but in the end I

Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly, is a fiction novel that talks about a story between a monster and its creator, Victor Frankenstein. The book discusses not only the human nature, but also many kinds of relationships among human beings, such as friendship and parent-child relationship. The monster is born to be neither good nor evil, and he is only a victim of Victor Frankenstein. The novel begins with four letters, which are all written by Robert Walton and are all to Robert’s sister, Margaret Saville.