Who Is Victor Frankenstein Human

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In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the character Victor Frankenstein is very interested into philosophy which brought his desire to bring death to life. As Victor worked to his maximum energy to create a human he soon realized he's done. However, when the creature came to life victor was shocked but fearful of what he has done. Then Victor deserted his creature who then lived a stressful and isolated life. The opinion of whether the creature is human or not is very straightforward. Two reasons the creature is not human is that he was never born, he was created as an experiment and he also cannot have a social life with others that he desires to speak with.

One of the reasons for the creature not being human was that the creature was never born like a human, he was an experiment. It is true that this creature has feelings like a human but an animal also has feelings, but it does not matter whether this creature can talk or have feelings it matters upon how this creature was created and giving a life like a natural human. For instance, "I
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If the creature try's to have a social life with anyone they would be scared and shocked because of the way he does not look like a human. The images on page 91 it explains that "Creature: I was walking down a peaceful town that was populated and soon figured out that there were people looking at me with extremely scared and harsh looks so I decide to speak and so many men came at me with pitch forks and torches as I didn't know what to do and run". This image evidence explains how the people in the town seem to be scared and hateful towards the creature because of the way he looks like a monster. But, there were many reactions towards the creature and they were all awful. The only good/nice reaction was the blind man and that was only because he was

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