The Frankenstein Monster
The Frankenstein Monster It would be easy to just say that Victor's creation was the monster because it wasn't really human, having been created from stolen body parts, a creature that takes innocent lives and destroys without a bit of regret. But what caused the creature to behave this way? The creature was a created by the true monster of this story. Victor was a man unable to understand the meaning of what he was doing, a man possessed with fame and fortune, an irrational man who had no respect for family, friends, or the beauty of life. Victor was a spoiled child, raised in a world of privilege by doting parents where he was never made to accept responsibility for his actions, and from an early age thought the world revolved around him: "Much as they were attracted to each other...I was their plaything and their idol, and something better - their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed upon them by Heaven..."(40). Victor didn't care for family or friends and felt that they were not as important as his desire to learn about science, "...I was capable of a more intense application, and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge"(43). "It was the secrets of heaven and ear
And he tells of how after being rejected by Victor, the DeLacey family, and every human he came in contact with, he had decided to seek vengeance against the person who had doomed him to a miserable and painful life. To the world around him, Victor's creation was a monster, made up of discarded and stolen body parts. The creature was hideous, and immediately Victor rejected it, failing to see the beauty in his ability to actually create life: "The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. "(198), and destroyed the female creature. I will hover near and direct the steel aright"(250). He gathered parts for his creation by robbing graves and killing animals, showing total disregard for any of nature's creatures, living or dead, in his pursuit of glory. Victor had an opportunity to right all the wrong he had done when the creature spoke to him, telling him that he was not created to be evil, that he was benevolent, but man's hatred for the way he looked drove him to defend himself. "I was surprised, that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret"(62).
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