Victor and The creature are probably the biggest Dichomite in the book Frankenstein. In case you didn't know Victor is the creator of the creature and the creature is a ugly eight foot tall thing. After Victor created the creature it ran away without knowing really anything. He went
Following its creation, the creature was neglected by many to come, given its appearance, which would result in it murdering William Frankenstein, Victor’s brother. Further into the story, the creature ends up directly or indirectly killing many relatives of Victor, those including Henry Clerval, Elizabeth Lavenza (his wife), Alphonse Frankenstein (his father), and Justine Moritz. These deaths cause Victor to fall far from reality, losing his sanity and securing his hate for the creature, making him suffer even more than he already has, given his already unstable mental health following the creation of the creature. At the very end of the story, he ends up dying from hypothermia or excessively cold temperatures whilst the creature watches, the creature has served justice, hurting those in front of his
Victor lacks love and compassion toward his ¨child¨ leaving him to teach himself how to live, read, and write by watching the DeLacey family. Victor showed negligence because the creature felt alone and was abandoned by his ¨father¨ also at the court when Justine was put on trial for being framed by the creature for killing William Frankenstein, Victor did not say anything, Justine feels that Victor is not responsible for her death and but he could of prevented the death of Justine. Henry Clerval, who is Victor's best friend said that the creature wasn't taught beliefs and it was Victor´s authority to teach him. William, who was Victor's younger brother said that Victor could not create such a thing that he was not the one who strangled and killed him it was the creature who put his hand over my mouth and grabbed my throat and killed me. When Elizabeth being asked how she died she said she was strangled by the creature on her wedding night.
The Monster and the Movie Too many people the Frankenstein monster is an intelligible creature that causes terror among people. That is true in the movies, but what about in the book Shelley’s Frankenstein? Many people believe Frankenstein is the monster, or creature. If people actually read book they would know that Frankenstein is the name of the Doctor that made the creature. The name being Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
The monster in Frankenstein is acting out of revenge and doesn’t know forgiveness or compassion. Which is Victor’s fault because he neglected to raise and teach is creation. It is something that the monster could’ve learned if taught or seen, but he was not shown compassion or forgiveness because of his outward appearances. The monster finds the papers on page 93 where it says, “Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors, and rendered mine indelible.” Victor the father of this creature hated his creation and rejected it.
There are evil monsters in different stories that do not care about other people’s feelings and ruin their life. In the graphic novel Frankenstein, by Gris Grimly, Victor is an example of a monster like in other stories. Victor is the creator of the creation with a wonderful personality that he deserted. On the other side, people think the creation is the real devil because the creation ends up dragging Victor to death. However, these actions from the creation were the result of Victor’s careless actions toward him.
Victor Frankenstein, is at fault for the creature’s actions. Victor was looking for some honor and triumph, but when he accomplished his experiment, not only did it bring terror to Victor, but to the whole world. The monster never learned right from wrong and was never raised correctly, his first moment of life, all he experienced was the fear in Victor's emotion, and was abandoned right from the start. Victor selfishly isolated himself from society and ran away from his responsibilities which caused destruction to the people Victor cared for and loved deeply. The creature was known as a monster and was doomed due to his appearance.
But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world”(24). Victor shows the strong love of family in his childhood “No human being could have passed a happier childhood than [me]. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence” (Shelley,40), he raised with excellent conditions and with parents who loved their children, but we do not see that Victor gives this love to his creature and ignored him, notwithstanding the fact that the two figures shared many characteristics. As a result of Frankenstein 's darkness and ignorance toward his creature, he refused to accept the monster because of his physical appearance and Frankenstein sees the creature as if he were the monster when the creature
The most prominent mistake made by Victor Frankenstein is abandoning the creature and letting it roam free. Abandoning the creature is also one of the reasons the creature goes on a killing spree, as seen in chapter 15 in " He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.". Although the creature initially possessed a benevolent nature, his experience of being rejected by society and abandoned by his creator led to feelings of bitterness and a desire for revenge. This emotional state is evident in his words, which express his hatred and anger towards Victor. The creature's murderous rampage was motivated by his rage and need for revenge against Victor for leaving him and denying him the companionship he craved.
Eventually, the monster killed William Frankenstein because he was shot and never received gratitude after saving a drowning little girl. The monster never intended to do something evil but it was his emotions that caused him to be rash. Throughout the monster’s tale, I couldn’t help but feel pity towards the monster. As for Victor, he didn’t seem to show any compassion towards the monster because he didn’t really care what the monster went through.
All the monster wanted to do was make friends and be apart of a family, but Dr. Frankenstein kicked him to the curb and abandoned him. Victor was trying to hide the creature that he made because he was afraid of what people were going think of him. He also began to fear what type of bad things they thought that he was going to do. These were the main reasons that prompted the creature to reach his boiling point and become evil. This lesson just shows how selfish some people in the regular world can be towards things of the unknown.
Philip Pullman’s adaptation of Mary shelly’s ‘frankenstein’, is a play about a young scientist named Victor Frankenstein, who creates a being out of corpse parts. However, it is not the perfect being he envisioned. I initially felt sympathy towards the character of Monster because he is neglected by his creator and is abused by those who saw him, due to his appearance. As the story progressed I began to pity the character of Frankenstein, due to his dedication for his creation and the consequences he experiences as his ambition leads him to become obsessed and single-minded.
Joyce Carol Oates states in her essay Frankenstein Fallen Angel, “…he (Victor) seems blind to the fact that is apparent to any reader – that he has loosed a fearful power into the world, whether it strikes his eye as aesthetically pleasing or not, and he must take responsibility for it.” Victor is unwilling to care for the creature, because he finds him dreadful, so he takes the easy way out and leaves the creature to take care of himself, which he is not capable of doing. Victor’s obsession to act superhuman blinded him while he was creating the creature because he had a desire to assemble the creature from makeshift parts so that the creature would be hideous and therefore inferior to Victor. The creature is formed as an ugly being so that it is easier for Victor to walk away from. Victor is willing to abandon his own creation because he views the creature as a, “… filthy mass that moved and talked” (136).
In Philip Pullman’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ , it clearly shows that he encourages the audience to feel more sympathy for the Monster and not Frankenstein. This is because of the way people describe the Monster and say extremely violent things to him, such as death threats. The Monster states things in the story so the other people understand the hardships he has had but not everyone believes that it is worth feeling sorry for because of the way he is different to man. So it makes the audience have sympathy for him because they know what the Monster has been through and they know he has had gone through more exclusion from the public than what Frankenstein has.
The gothic fiction novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley centralizes on humanity and the qualifications that make someone human. The content of the novel Frankenstein depicts a monster displaying human traits that his creator Victor does not possess: empathy, a need for companionship, and a will to learn and fit in. Throughout the novel Shelley emphasizes empathy as a critical humanistic trait. The monster displays his ability to empathize with people even though they are strangers. On the other hand Victor, fails to show empathy throughout the novel even when it relates to his own family and friends.
