Victor Frankenstein's Multiple Injustices

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Victor Frankenstein is the one who faces multiple injustices. Victor would have been seen by a different perspectives if he wouldn’t have been a selfish person. Even though, he did those actions for several reason, it doesn’t justify him from the real interior person he is. Although in the novel may say, he did it to protect him and the rest of the people around him, it was unhuman act to blame someone else for your actions, for example; when Victor blames Justine for his son’s dead which it was the monster that kill the his son when the monster meet with him. The fact was that he knew that the monster kill his son, but when Victor see’s Justine having William’s necklace, she was automatically accused of the kill. Although he save’s the monster

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