Victor Frankenstein rejects his own creature at his birth, which is considered to be an evil deed. Considering the monster’s situation as a newborn baby, who comes to life, he needs his parents to take care of him. Victor as his parent is responsible to nurture him, but he rejects his creature and as the monster is rejected, therefore, he takes on evil deeds. The relationship that Victor Frankenstein develops with his creature mirrors the relationship that Victor had with his own father. Victor is somehow resentful towards his own father and now that he himself becomes a father, he takes out this resentment on his own son. Victor has carefully selected the pieces for his creature, but as soon as the creature comes into life, he faces with an ugly and frightening being.
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As Rosemary Jackson says, it is Victor’s rejection of his creation that turns the creature evil: “Initially, this body is not evil - it is outside moral issues, beyond good and evil - but it has evil thrust upon it and gradually comes to assume a more conventional role as an evil monster” (49). The monster asks Victor for acceptance, but several times Victor refuses to take responsibility as a creator, which is all the monster wants of him: “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of
As Rosemary Jackson says, it is Victor’s rejection of his creation that turns the creature evil: “Initially, this body is not evil - it is outside moral issues, beyond good and evil - but it has evil thrust upon it and gradually comes to assume a more conventional role as an evil monster” (49). The monster asks Victor for acceptance, but several times Victor refuses to take responsibility as a creator, which is all the monster wants of him: “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of