Victor's Suffering In Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor creates a monster without thinking much about the consequences. The creature is the one who suffers throughout the book. The tragic figure he suffers the most from is his creator, Victor Frankenstein. Victor abandoned his creature, didn’t want anything to do with him, the creature was shunned from society because of his hideous appearance. Victor kept his monster as a secret and you could say secrets cause physical, societal and psychological suffering for the creature. People just wrongly treat the creature on the assumption that he actually is a monster. The meanings of the work as a whole is to never abandon something because you’re scared of it and don’t want to face it. The monster was assembled from old body parts and strange chemicals, animated …show more content…
The death of William, Victor’s brother, causes suffering throughout the Frankenstein family. The death of his brother was the monster’s fault. But since Victor kept the creature a secret no one knew it was the monster that killed William. So the death of William led to Justine, Victor’s sister through adoption. She was being tried and convicted as the murderer. Victor did not testify saying she was innocent and it was the monsters fault. He knew it wasn’t her fault but did nothing to stop her from going to jail. Also, no one looked into the facts; instead they found a quick and easy answer to the problem. This shows the ignorance of society in this novel. The creature also kills other people from Victor’s family because he was rejected from society as well as Victor rejecting the creature out of his life too. The creature says. “I will see you on your wedding night,” toward Victor. Victor was so convinced that the creature was going to kill him, but he didn’t think to stop and realize what else that could have meant. But, it actually meant that the creature was going to kill his wife that day and not