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 earth that I desired to learn...the physical secrets of the world'(45). "I have described myself as always having been inbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature"(47).
             Victor became obsessed at an early age with glory and fame, and his ego drove him to learn more and more about life and death as he went away to attend university. Victor believed himself to possess a remarkable talent for chemistry and anatomy, and a complete understanding of the human species, to the point that he believed himself capable of producing a superior race of human in a laboratory. Victor began slowly, but eventually his studies became intense and he said ...