Frankenstein Who Is To Blame For Victor's Downfall

Many stories have characters that have characters in which it is their personality flaws that lead to the character’s downfall. While it may not seem like it at first, Frankenstein is one of those stories. While the story many lead readers to believe that the creature is to blame for Victor’s tragedies, it is in fact Victor who is to blame. While Victor may blame fate for his tragedies, it it Victor’s actions and his personality flaws that bring about his downfall.
Victor’s secrecy, inability to reveal the creature’s existence and isolation are one of the reasons for Victor’s tragedies. After Victor shows Henry Clerval around at the University and is starting to get better from his sickness he sees that "… he [Henry] was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide to him that event which was so often present to my recollection but which I feared the detail to another would impress more deeply"(52). Here Victor is saying how he could never come to confide in Henry. But …show more content…
It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries."(36) Here Victor is saying that cowardice and carelessness hold back new discoveries. He is also denying that he himself does not possess these qualities and that is the reason that he was able to make the discovery of being able to give life. This is no true because Victor is careless when he doesn’t see how ugly and otherworldly his creation is until he has already made it. Also he is a coward when he doesn’t do away with the monster in the many instances that he encounters him. One easy way would be for VIctor to push the creature off the mountain just like the creature