Victor Frankenstein’s brother, a ghastly-looking monster’s formation and the Monster’s possible lover’s, creation. These all represent mishaps, because of the damage they cause. They cause damage to families, more specifically Frankenstein’s family and they cause self-pity to the
Monster, by bringing him false hope of a future lover and deception, because Victor did not properly parent his creation. Both Victor Frankenstein and the Monster inflict damage to their community and themselves. This paper will discuss the blame that Victor Frankenstein and the
Monster carry. It will individually portray their faults and how they equivalently bring self and
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The creation of the Monster brings annihilation and destruction and ultimately confusion on who is to blame for the murders of many. If Victor Frankenstein decides to not create the Monster, and assumes the responsibility of creation and the unseen possible mishaps that can occur, no deaths will occur.
All evil ultimately has a root cause. Whether the Monster’s root evil stems from a psychological predisposition, or forms from his lack of instruction from his creator, does not have a definitive answer, however one must assume responsibilities for his own actions. The actions the Monster must assume responsibility for, resemble the numerous murders. The reason one blames the Monster, three of the murders were not on random people, three had deep relations with Victor Frankenstein. One of victor’s dearest friend, Henry Clerval, loses his life by the hands of the Monster. To understand the pain Victor faces, he states, “The examination, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses, passed like a dream from my memory when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me” (Shelley 74)... If the Monster randomly lashes out and brings forth random chaos upon an unsuspecting village, less blame fills …show more content…
Since the Monster does personal attacks on Victor and his best friend, one cannot ignore the revengeful nature of the Monster. He also utilizes tactic when even plotting these gruesome events. Rather than surprising the victims and killing them out of cold blood, he adequately plots them. He tells Victor to be suspecting of death on his wedding night, the audience assumes that the Monster will go after Victor Frankenstein. As the end of the story progresses, one finds that did not resemble the intent of the Monster, instead he goes after
Elizabeth. To emphasize the impact it makes upon victor, he cries out, “I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy.
She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay,