Who Is The Real Monster In Frankenstein

A strangled boy, an innocent executed girl, a sick boy, constant fears and several mysterious deaths...It is not a killer, who is guilty of all these terrible and strange events, but a young scientist whose name is Victor Frankenstein. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we are told of a man Victor who creates a life. This creation, his creature, is perceived by society because of his physical appearance being so called a “monster” although his creator is in fault of his creatures actions. Frankenstein leaves us asking questions and raises some serious issues, one of which that comes up time and time again. Who is the real monster? To begin, The word monster can be described as behaviour or to be perceived by looks. No one is born a monster, …show more content…
The creature soon becomes a monster after committing a murder in vengeance of Victor for abandoning him to be left in the cold hearted world that cannot let him simply exist and have somebody to love or to love him. “I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and if chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred,” the creature only wants to love the people around him not hurt, but since the people misjudge him because he appears different from everyone else he wants to get back at the world for bringing him pain. Victor had created the first step into creating a monster by running away from the creature who had not done anything wrong. Moreover, the creature wonders off looking for people to turn to, not wanting to cause any harm to those but simply for attention and support. Not knowing what it had done to deserve any of these cruel rejections and suffering, nobody cared for this living being which needed affection desperately to feel whole. “My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death,” constantly suffering from the cruel world made the creature a real monster with revenge on Victor Frankenstein one, by killing little William (170). Every hate, cruelty, and judgement, the creature had nobody else to live for, bringing out the true monster he was so to be called upon all those who caused him pain during his search for love and affection. The creature was “born” with a pure heart, no hate or vengeance whatsoever and never got to experience the love or compassion from anybody in the world even his own creator, making the creature unhappy formed him into