Is Victor Justified In Frankenstein

To be monstruos, means to be selfish, corrupt and dishonorable. This is why Victor Frankenstein is the real monster, and not the Creature. Victor is the one who created the Creature and then abandoned his child, he is the one to blame for all of the destruction and death the Creature has caused. If Victor had not abandoned, or even create the creature, no one would have had to suffer. However, since he did, his family was killed, but he does not see himself responsible for what happened to his family. Victor is the real monster because the choices that he made, caused death, but he did not take blame for what happened, instead he blamed it all on his creation.
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However, since he did, all of his family and friends got killed. Despite this, Victor does not see himself responsible for their deaths and he puts all of the blame on the Creature. When Victor is on his deathbed, he tells Walton, “Think not, Walton, that in the last moments of my existence I feel that burning hatred, and ardent desire of revenge I once expressed; but I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary. During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; nor do I find it blameable”(Shelley 185). Victor says that he is not “blameable” for the death of his family and he blames everything on his creation. Their deaths could have been prevented, but Victor choose not to listen to his intuition while creating the Creature. Despite this, he believes that he is innocent and that the Creature is the one to blame for everything that has happened to him. This shows that people try to pass off the blame to someone else, even though they are also at fault. For example, when there is someone getting bullied, and people see but do not do anything to stop it, they become part of the bullying. However, some people don’t see it like that and only blame the bully since that person is the one bullying. However, according to Edmund Burke, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. It means that if people …show more content…
When the Creature killed William he said, “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph: clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him” (Shelley 117) . After the Creature killed William, he says he felt “exultation”, which means pleasure and joy, and he also says that this is just the beginning of Victor’s torment. The Creature went on to murder the rest of Victor’s family and friends and even mocked Victor. The Creature obviously wanted Victor to suffer. However once Victor died and the Creature went on the boat to see him he says, “ Think ye that the groans of Clerval were music to my ears? My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine”. The Creature says that he hated killing these people and he does not deny what he has done, but he says that he hated doing it. The Creature even asked Victor’s corpse for forgiveness, unlike Victor who still wanted the Creature dead and even asked Walton to find the Creature and kill him, which was a selfish wish. While the Creature felt remorse for what he was doing and felt pity