Victor Frankenstein was the protagonist and the narrator of Marry Shelley 's science fiction novel, Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus. He created a grotesque monster that turned out his first foe. The monster destroyed his life and the lives of his loved ones. Victor dedicated his life to figure out ways to comprehend the mysterious concept of life and death. He spends most of his time investigating solutions for his curiosity about natural philosophy. Victor selfishly concealed his secret to share with his family, his tendency of creating the human-like creature, and it was always burning him inside, but he could not dare to share it. Equally, the monster always wanted to have a connection with the people, but it was a challenge for him
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Comparing Victor to the monster, he was considered gentle and innocent character in the story while the monster was identified the heinous one. However, I am claiming that Frankenstein was a monster too because the literal definition of monster is when someone is extremely despicable to others. So, how can Victor be a monster? We can clearly point out the horrible things he had done to his creation, the monster. First, he completely neglected and abandoned the monster, and that could be one logical reason that the monster turned out to be evil. For instance, in the ordinary world, if the child does not receive a proper parental training, he or she can be impolite and rude to others because parents are role models for their children. If the child does not see anybody to emulate his or her actions they can adapt unwanted behaviors, like this monster. Secondly, Victor threatened the monster to end his life, which indicates that Victor had no mercy toward his creation. He once said in his own words that, “I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death” (Shelley 169). He clearly made his point that he wanted to seek the death of his child, which ultimately revealed his hidden and sinful characteristic. He was supposed to provide a parenting to his child before he had exposed to the public world, unfortunately, Victor had failed to do that. Therefore, it is unfair to the monster to take all the blame because he was one who suffered the most, regarding the lack of a paternal training from his evil father,
Comparing Victor to the monster, he was considered gentle and innocent character in the story while the monster was identified the heinous one. However, I am claiming that Frankenstein was a monster too because the literal definition of monster is when someone is extremely despicable to others. So, how can Victor be a monster? We can clearly point out the horrible things he had done to his creation, the monster. First, he completely neglected and abandoned the monster, and that could be one logical reason that the monster turned out to be evil. For instance, in the ordinary world, if the child does not receive a proper parental training, he or she can be impolite and rude to others because parents are role models for their children. If the child does not see anybody to emulate his or her actions they can adapt unwanted behaviors, like this monster. Secondly, Victor threatened the monster to end his life, which indicates that Victor had no mercy toward his creation. He once said in his own words that, “I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death” (Shelley 169). He clearly made his point that he wanted to seek the death of his child, which ultimately revealed his hidden and sinful characteristic. He was supposed to provide a parenting to his child before he had exposed to the public world, unfortunately, Victor had failed to do that. Therefore, it is unfair to the monster to take all the blame because he was one who suffered the most, regarding the lack of a paternal training from his evil father,