Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein’s creation is portrayed as truly monstrous until the very end of the novel. Victor’s actions throughout the novel make him the actual monster instead of his creature, but the reader does not realize this until the end of the novel when there is a switch. The creature makes a speech showing his transformation and understanding of himself, and Victor becomes the antagonist in the reader’s eyes. Victor abandons his creation and refuses to build a female like him, causing Victor to be more monstrous than the creation. Victor created life and once it did not turn out how he was expecting he does not want to carry the burden of creating another. This is truly monstrous because being abandoned
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This lack in nurture from its mother causes developmental issues with self-identification and feelings of abandonment. As Zimmerman goes on he argues that this nameless dread could have been prevented and the creation would have been able to deal with his self identification problems easier if he if Victor had not abandoned him at such and vulnerable time in his life. Since Victor abandoned his creature, he is the sole reason for the creations sadness and anger. “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” (Shelley 115) The creature would not have had to venture out on his own, or have to figure things out for himself if Victor had stayed with him and taught him like he had originally planned on doing. The creature is considered monstrous because of his actions, but he is not to blame for them because he is just an experiment gone wrong who was abandoned by his creator. Being abandoned and shunned away by all society does not help him to become a good, functioning member of society. Anthony F. Badalamenti states, the monster complains that his maker and mankind are moving his nature from goodness to benevolence to wrath and violence.” (Badalamenti 430) I agree with this statement because it is not the creatures fault that all he has been taught is abandonment and neglect by society. The creation was originally kind and naïve, but his creator’s behavior toward him changed the creations demeanor
This lack in nurture from its mother causes developmental issues with self-identification and feelings of abandonment. As Zimmerman goes on he argues that this nameless dread could have been prevented and the creation would have been able to deal with his self identification problems easier if he if Victor had not abandoned him at such and vulnerable time in his life. Since Victor abandoned his creature, he is the sole reason for the creations sadness and anger. “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” (Shelley 115) The creature would not have had to venture out on his own, or have to figure things out for himself if Victor had stayed with him and taught him like he had originally planned on doing. The creature is considered monstrous because of his actions, but he is not to blame for them because he is just an experiment gone wrong who was abandoned by his creator. Being abandoned and shunned away by all society does not help him to become a good, functioning member of society. Anthony F. Badalamenti states, the monster complains that his maker and mankind are moving his nature from goodness to benevolence to wrath and violence.” (Badalamenti 430) I agree with this statement because it is not the creatures fault that all he has been taught is abandonment and neglect by society. The creation was originally kind and naïve, but his creator’s behavior toward him changed the creations demeanor