Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The monster should not be held responsible for killing members and friends because Victor brought a dead child to life. How is the monster supposed to know anything because when the monster wakes up, he knows nothing. Dont forget that as soon as Victor created the moster, he leaves him and basically niglets him until the monster goes away. The monster has to learn about their new environment. In the game of Frankenstein, the monster begins to gradually get used to things. The problems are found when the monster had not condemned mankind until he saved the life of a child and a reward, which is shot. "He had saved a human being from destruction, and as a reward now writhed under the pain of a wound that broke miserable flesh,"(Shelly 135). After

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