Responsibility For Creation In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Victor has almost completed his course at Ingolstadt, and decides to launch into a new venue of scientific experimentation — creating life from death and reanimating a dead body.In order to obtain the neccesary parts to create his creation he expressed, “ a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.” and “ [I] spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.” to successfully create and bring his creation to life(Shelley).Once he collects all the parts needed to create his life from death creation he began this gruesome work carries on through the spring, summer, and fall of that year while impacting his health and powers of judgement. Over the course of his long journey to create what he would later find out a monster to humankind caused him to lose complete contact with the outside world.He stated, “ After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.” with pride once …show more content…
If a creator never took responsibility for its creation the most logical thing is no one would know who the creator is. On the other hand, their creation came from their own inspirational imagination why wouldn't you want to take pride in that. In the book Frankenstein, Victor did not fulfill his responsibility to his creation.Due to his lack of judgement, he created a misshapen being, and then quickly grew hatred for it.After the creature's birth he expressed, "I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view. I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited"(Shelley).Therefore he procrastinated for so long to deal with the monster that the more Victor procrastinated, the more he became mentally haunted by