The Responsibility Of The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The process that Frankenstein used to construct the creature was after being in college or the university for two years. After the two years Frankenstein wanted a name for himself to give him fame and so then he got the idea of creating another life form. With this idea Frankenstein grew sick staying up late nights studying the Human mechanics, the body, and Human behavior. Frankenstein felt like a slave in creating his monster because he would be locked away in his room. For instance he explains “But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery toil” (Shelley 20). He also felt like he was doing something wrong because he felt guilty. For example, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime” (Shelley 20) . This meaning he has a feeling of what he is doing is wrong. Finally Frankenstein has his monster together and life came to him, “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as …show more content…
Also to explain why he did so. I feel that Frankenstein did not fulfill his responsibilities to his creation because once he saw what he did he was disgusted as said “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 21). Frankenstein also ran away to his room to forget about it fell asleep and had bad dream, “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed chamber unable to compose my mind to sleep” ( Shelley 21). Frankenstein was disappointed and abandoned his