Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the real Monster in Mary Shelley 's Gothic Novel Frankenstein? At first glance, the answer to this question seems quite simple but in fact; it is not. Like an onion, Frankenstein has many layers. This essay will peel away the many layers to determine who the real monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Some of the points this piece will touch upon will be Victor’s desire for admiration by his colleagues, his quest to animate a deceased human being that would allow him to find the answer to immortality, and how his self-imposed isolation causes his family and friends great sadness and worry. Once his creation reaches fruition Victor is repulsed by the fruits of his labor, he flees the creature leaving it to fend for
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Victor feels abandoned by his mother as a child. The fear of neglect and promise to never leave those whom one loves and cares for would be the natural reaction for a normal emotional feeling human being, but this quality is not something Victor perceives nor puts into action. Not only does Victor abandon his family for to work two years on his conception, once his goal came to fruition he renounced the creature as well. “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to perform?” (Shelley pg. 44) This alone itself is a characteristic of a …show more content…
Animating a being made from gathering body parts stolen from cadavers in the predawn hours of the morning is evil to many. There is one single act in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that is so evil and unfathomable it alone stands to define Victor as a monster. Justine death can be directly related to Victor. Even though he knows that Justine is innocent of the murder of William, Victor’s younger brother, he stays quiet while she stands trial, subsequently found guilty and later hung for the killing. How could anyone with any sense of remorse, any sense of decency let another human stand accused and face death for a crime they know without a shadow of a doubt they did not commit? A Monster, without a doubt. As you can see Victor succeeded in creating a monster,
Victor feels abandoned by his mother as a child. The fear of neglect and promise to never leave those whom one loves and cares for would be the natural reaction for a normal emotional feeling human being, but this quality is not something Victor perceives nor puts into action. Not only does Victor abandon his family for to work two years on his conception, once his goal came to fruition he renounced the creature as well. “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to perform?” (Shelley pg. 44) This alone itself is a characteristic of a …show more content…
Animating a being made from gathering body parts stolen from cadavers in the predawn hours of the morning is evil to many. There is one single act in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that is so evil and unfathomable it alone stands to define Victor as a monster. Justine death can be directly related to Victor. Even though he knows that Justine is innocent of the murder of William, Victor’s younger brother, he stays quiet while she stands trial, subsequently found guilty and later hung for the killing. How could anyone with any sense of remorse, any sense of decency let another human stand accused and face death for a crime they know without a shadow of a doubt they did not commit? A Monster, without a doubt. As you can see Victor succeeded in creating a monster,