How Is Victor Frankenstein Good Or Evil

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Giovan Sanchez

Frankenstein’s Farewell

“That he should live to be an instrument of mischief disturbs me”, (Frankenstein 12th letter). Here you have read one of Victor Frankenstein’s last words before dying in a dark abyss. Victor Frankenstein’s last words are meant to show the reader (you) that you always need to be wise of what you chose and that man is no god, nor perfect. You should expect that Victor is showing you his mistakes; that man no god to humanity. I chose this essay because in the end of Frankenstein, the reader learns that creating life can’t be formed with science; but only by man and woman. I surmise that Victor is a good man, a brilliant man, but so very ignorant because he wants to create life. But you see Victor doesn’t know that creating life has to be a perfect procedure and surely, Victor isn’t a perfect human being. You have to be perfect to make a human being because a human being can only be perfectly made by a real god, which is Jesus.
I believe the speaker is saying that if the monster lives, the monster will cause chaos and harm to others, and this will forever scare Victor. Victor created this monster and is frightened because now he knows, the monster is his
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Victor’s last words were to kill the monster, because of course, victor did deserve justice. The monster killed innocent people, who of which, did not deserve to die at all. I’ve learned to see the world differently, now that my eyes are opened up to see truth. I still believe victor did not deserve to die, he could of done something good in life for himself. As I was typing, I could remember how the times when people tried to change me or push me away towards the world and this brought so much anger inside of me. But, it was until I found God, which is when all that anger I had disappeared into thin

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