Victor Did The Unspeakable: He Tried To Play God

Victor did the unspeakable: he tried to play God. As if it was merely a game, he created life with no care for anyone but himself. Like a woman who gives birth, you are responsible for what you create. He ran away as if being God was no longer fun; the consequences that would follow would be his own doing. Down to his death, he would have no one to blame but himself. It started at an early age, from when he states “Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate....” (20). He read many novels, increasing his fascination with natural sciences. Even after expressing to his father of his findings, he still pursues this madness he calls science. He thought he was discovering himself but in reality he was starting his inevitable demise. …show more content…
Instead of the reproduction of humans by sex, he decided to gather dead body parts and grant new life into this decaying body. As he states “I beheld the wretch – the miserable monster whom I had created” (35) he clearly shows his understanding of what he was done: he created life where life was not meant to be created. Trying to be his own God destroyed him, for he feared the creature that was before his eyes, and it would haunt him until the day he died. He worked for two years to create this being yet in the midst of it he ran in terror. As if it was not enough already, he bargained with his creature, vowing to create him a companion, “I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever....” (107). Being God failed before and now he wants to create him a wife. The creature murdered with full understanding. When the time came though, Victor refused, destroying his work, ruining any chance of creating another such monster. The monster, in an outrage, had already killed his friend Henry Clavel, and then goes to Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor's to be wedded wife. Death went wherever Victor and the monster