The phrase “like father, like son” is never more well applied to any duo as it is to Victor and his Creature. Both of these characters display acts of such deplorable moral character that it renders them both unpitiable. While many would say that the Creature is only bad because others around him treat him badly, the heinousness of his crimes would prove otherwise. Pity for the Creature in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is woefully misplaced: both he and Victor are impulsive, selfish, and lack in compassion throughout the book, and deserve no sympathy due to the sole fact of their own depravity. Victor was so preoccupied with whether he could create a human, that he did not stop to think if he should. Victor never thinks about the potential
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In the paragraphs after the Creature comes to life, Victor takes on an accusatory tone towards him: “I had worked hard…I had deprived myself…I had desired…Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber” (39). Victor’s constant use of the I pronoun accentuates his selfishness; he does not care, or even stop to think about, the fact that he was the one that created the Creature in that image, but instead laments how he toiled so hard just for his Creation to be so horrendous. While the Creature had done nothing at all besides smile and blink, Victor blames him for being hideous, and abandons him alone just minutes into his life. The depraved indifference he shows towards his Creature and his complete blindness towards his own faults render him …show more content…
While many agree that Victor does not deserve pity for his actions, pity for the Creature is misplaced. Both of these characters are uncaring about others, are selfish, and constantly act without thinking things through. Neither of these characters deserve sympathy because they chose to do the things that they did. And while the Creature lived a life of despair, the fact that he knew right from wrong means that he is responsible for his own actions. No matter the upbringing, characters that knowingly commit such heinous crimes certainly do not deserve
In the paragraphs after the Creature comes to life, Victor takes on an accusatory tone towards him: “I had worked hard…I had deprived myself…I had desired…Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber” (39). Victor’s constant use of the I pronoun accentuates his selfishness; he does not care, or even stop to think about, the fact that he was the one that created the Creature in that image, but instead laments how he toiled so hard just for his Creation to be so horrendous. While the Creature had done nothing at all besides smile and blink, Victor blames him for being hideous, and abandons him alone just minutes into his life. The depraved indifference he shows towards his Creature and his complete blindness towards his own faults render him …show more content…
While many agree that Victor does not deserve pity for his actions, pity for the Creature is misplaced. Both of these characters are uncaring about others, are selfish, and constantly act without thinking things through. Neither of these characters deserve sympathy because they chose to do the things that they did. And while the Creature lived a life of despair, the fact that he knew right from wrong means that he is responsible for his own actions. No matter the upbringing, characters that knowingly commit such heinous crimes certainly do not deserve