Victor Frankenstein In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is told from the perspective of Captain Robert Walton who is en route to the North Pole. He encounters a nearly frozen man named Victor Frankenstein, who then proceeds to tell Walton his life’s story. Victor tells Walton of his peaceful childhood, his obsession with natural philosophy, and how that obsession evolved into a love for chemistry and biology. Victor became consumed with determining the secret of life and spent two years working to create life from death. He created a huge creature made from corpses that had superhuman strength. Victor successfully animated his creation but was immediately repulsed and fled as a result of his fear. The creature travels around and is driven away by all those …show more content…
The creature then killed Henry, and attacked and killed Victor’s wife on their wedding night. Victor vowed to devote his life to finding the monster and chases him to the Arctic, where Victor is nearly frozen to death but is found by Walton. Shortly after Victor has told Walton all of this, Victor dies, and the creature appears on Walton’s ship and expresses his sorrow and regret for his actions and then bounds off into the Arctic saying that the only relief from his guilt and remorse is …show more content…
There is a scene in the novel where the creature stumbles upon a young girl that seems to be drowning. At the last moment, he saves her, and the reward for his actions comes from a man who thought the creature was attacking the girl. His reward is a bullet wound. The creature eventually starts to live in the hovel, next to a small family. He feels bad after he realizes that he had been stealing food from this already poor family. So, out of the pure kindness of his heart, he helps them out by doing small or labor intensive chores. After a year, he only wishes to have a friend, and thusly presents himself to the family (in a somewhat discreet way) and they are horrified and drive him away. The creature has seen rejection at every turn in his (short) life. Everyone has run away screaming or run at him with weapons. He blames Victor for bringing him into this world and then abandoning him, and is furious, just as any other person would be. The creature happens to encounter a young boy who doesn’t run away. This boy, William, speaks with the monster and is not afraid. But the creature happens to find out that the boy is Victor’s brother. So, in a fit of inhuman rage, the creature strangles the small boy to death. It is not monstrous to be angry but he murdered a boy with his bare hands! He then pillages William’s things and happens to leave (purposely or accidentally) one of his possessions with a sleeping girl. The girl is accused of