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have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent” (Mary Shelley 320). What if the female mate does not love the monster back? Which will leave the monster even more vexed then he was to begin with. What if she refuses to leave also? What if he sees himself more ugly then before after looking at his look alike all of the time? When the Lacy family saw him for the first time these were their reactions “Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to” (Marry Shelley 295). This is important because it shows how quick people are to judge based on someone’s …show more content…
When creating this one of a kind real life creature the only thing considered was his ego of what he had finally done. Anyone who places a human being in this world and leaves them to rot of loneliness is a monster. Especially when they run in horror from the being. Even from the start Dr. Frankenstein calls this incident a catastrophe. Victor states, “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? (Marry Shelley)”. Victor Frankenstein was a monster because he left the monster insecure and alone, never looking back. Even when the monster asked for a mate, the only reason he complied was because the monster promised he would never come back. Again Victor Frankenstein only thought of himself. The repercussions of him being a monster is that he ends up killing many. Victor Frankenstein is only to blame for William Frankenstein’s death because if he hadn’t of left the monster confused and alone he wouldn’t of accidently killed him. Henry Clerval's death is also the fault of Victor Frankenstein because again the monster was left scared and alone. The way Victor Frankenstein left the monster is just as comparable as a mother leaving her child on a door step and even more understandable because he was the only one of his …show more content…
Minerva is a monster because Trujillo feared her. Trujillo saw the Mirabel sisters as a threat and that is why he killed them. Minerva held multiple under ground meetings and even slapped Trujillo who is a monster himself. This quote is from when she slapped Trujillo, “and I can see my hand in an endless slow motion rise—a mind of its own—and come down on the astonished, make-up face (Marry Shelley). She even put her entire family in danger just to prove a point to Trujillo. The reason she turned into a monster was because her sorrow made her vengeful. When people become sad they tend to shut everyone out and plow forward not caring about the repercussions. This caused her father to die and in the end her

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