Garrett Grigg Ms. Hoover FrankensteinArgumentative Essay January 10, 2023 The Creation is to blame for the killings he committed. In the book Frankenstein we watch as the creation murders multiple people in order to satiate his own selfish desires. When we get a glimpse into the creation's life we see that even having been abandoned he still was able to distinguish between good and bad. The monster then decided of his own free will that he was going to get revenge on the ones that harmed him through the act of murder. Through the novel we see the monster kill multiple people, most of them having been strangled. The creation kills these people as he discovered that he can harm Victor Frankenstein through the death of his loved ones. The …show more content…
After he learned how to read by spying on the De Lacey family from outside their small cottage. He dove into the three books that he had found. He learned a lot about the world and how it worked but most importantly he found out about the concept of right and wrong. He learned about this concept from the book Plutarch's lives. We know that he fully understands these topics when he states “I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice” (231). Which essentially means that he knew exactly what right and wrong should feel like. At this point in the book he had not committed any big atrocities like he would later on. These later atrocities like murder would be with the monster fully knowing the wickedness of his …show more content…
His first victim was a sweet and innocent six year old boy. The creation's intention was to kidnap the boy but upon learning that he was related to Victor Frankenstein he strangled the boy to death. After murdering the boy the monster states “I gazed on my victim,and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph”(261). From this first murder we find out that he did not just murder for revenge but he also states that his heart swelled with exultation, in other words his first murder filled him with happiness. Some people may argue that the monster did not fully know the harm he was causing though his murders but all these arguments fall apart after he states that he “too, can create desolation; my enemy is not impregnable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him”(261). The monster was fully intent on using murder and other crimes as a resource for revenge. In his short life the creation figured out that murder was the best weapon to use against his enemies as there was no way of undoing