MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN
Throughout Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, she portrayed Victor Frankenstein's creation as the monster of the novel because he was disfigured and hideous on the outside. She portrayed Victor Frankenstein as a handsome and caring victim. Looks can be deceiving but actions are always true. Victor was not the victim in this novel. The only kind of victim he was, was a victim of his own actions. Frankenstein's ignorance was first shown while he was busy in his work. He did not visit his family for several years. Those are the people that loved and cared about him, yet he did not go home. Not even to visit his own father, the man who paid for his schooling and necessities. He selfishly stayed in solitude, hard at work on his studies. Frankenstein's ignorance and irresponsibility was then shown when he disowned and abandoned the creature after spending years of work creating it. He ran out of the room and fell onto his bed after seeing the creature come to
He could have stopped the creature's "evil" deeds by producing a mate for him. He should have explained everything to Elizabeth and told her about the promise that the creature made about their wedding night. The monster tried to speak to Frankenstein and smiled and reached out a hand, just like a child reaching for their parent. The monster acted with more respectable and reasonable decisions than Victor did. The monster did not like to perform the horrible deeds that he did, but he was provoked by Victor's irresponsibility and ignorance. He was selfish and only thought of his own life and didn't think about the people who he loved the most. Even after all the work he had done, Victor was incredibly happy that the horrible beast had left. He was irresponsible by letting the creature go free. He stated, "Think you that the groans of Clerval were music to my ears? My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine"(164). He was abandoned, exiled, despised, and denied any form of happiness only because his creator was not emotionally ready to bring him to life and deal with the consequences of doing so.
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