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Examples Of Victor's Crimes In Frankenstein

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Victor should be not trialed for the monster’s crimes but instead for his own. If Victor would have stayed with the monster and taught him how to be like any other human being the monster could have turned out different. There should be some type of punishment for creating a monster and violating the natural law of order. Not only that but by abandoning something that is considered a child and also for crimes that can be charged in court. This is why Victor is to blame for the monster’s crimes and his own. Victor violated natural law by combining parts of multiple human beings to create a monster that he had no regard to how he would behave, resemble or feel. Him giving life to something that was once dead is another reason why the blame was on him. If Victor didn’t create the monster and then abandon it the monster wouldn’t have went on to commit his crimes. In some ways Victor thought of himself as a sort of god after he created the monster and maybe by giving the monster life he thought it would be able to take care of itself. Victor only thought that the monster was hideous and didn’t want to deal with him. …show more content…

Victor left the monster confused and he was forced to figure out everything by himself. You could compare the monster to little kid in the body of a full grown man, and being neglected by the man who he considers as his father led him to act out. Being all by himself didn’t help the monster develop communication skills so obviously his first experience with people was terrible to the monster and became full of hate and he wanted to seek revenge on Victor. This is evidence that Victor is guilty for the monster’s

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In either case, the perpetrator goes free while a possible accused suspect is given the credit and their just reward for the action. This is the situation for Victor’s creation and Victor because Victor, directly and indirectly, caused the death of two people close to him due to his creation’s actions; this event would not have happened had Victor actually taken responsibility in raising his creation. Of all the actions that could have been prevented, the murder of William Frankenstein and the unjust persecution of Justine are the most heinous out of the assortment. Even Victor himself acknowledges the fact that he is culpable for the previously mentioned injustices when he thinks to himself , “I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom...”(70). While Victor does acknowledge his grievous error, he does nothing to correct said error proving that he is too cowardly to own up his mistakes, such as his mistake in making his creation or being able to stomach the thought of taking care and teaching his

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Victor was an arrogant, self-serving person who deserved to be sanctioned for his actions, but the issue of how far to go is a complex one. The Creature’s first victim, William, is the epitome of innocence. A young boy who is in only associated with Victor by name being killed to strike back at Victor is very harsh and arguably unnecessary. It is also made apparent that the Creature was thinking only “of rage and revenge”, and therefore was not in a state of mind reasonable enough to think about what it was doing. William’s death, while triggered by the knowledge that he was related to Victor, was in actual fact an act of revenge against humanity as a whole.

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The more we understood the creature, the more we were supposed to feel bad for him. No one is to blame for the creature’s actions, but Victor. Instead, he blames anyone he can other than himself. As for Victor, he never changed, showed no emotion towards the creature, just so blank. I feel as if the creature thought he needed Victor, when he really didn’t because he didn’t need him in order to gain his own form of

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Just as a parent is expected to instill values and the foundation of a moral compass in their children, it would have been Victor’s responsibility to familiarize the creature with the laws of the living. It is also unclear how a monster such as the creature could ever be convicted for a crime, considering the fact that it is much stronger and faster than any living man. It is also important to note that, just as the creature’s existence is a blurred boundary between dead and alive, its political boundaries are just as blurred between good and bad. The confusing, blurred boundaries that make up the existence of the creature are what make it difficult to place it in any category. In this case, not even the accurate description of criminal can fully grasp the identity of creature, effectively pushing its nonconformity even

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This caused a lot of anger for the monster, and he would then release this anger onto Victor to make him pay for abandonment. In the end Victor’s death was “caused by his creature” or really by “his own vengeful pursuit of it” (Lowe-Evans). The monsters death was through “self-immolation” because of the murders he committed to get back at Victor (Lowe- Evans). Both man and monster life was ended in cruel

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Dangerous Minds- Rough Draft Knowledge has the capability to be used for both good and evil. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there is a consistent message throughout the novel showing the dangerous and destructive power that knowledge can have. Two key characters, Victor Frankenstein and his monster, are shaped through their obsessions with knowledge and the power and responsibility that it brings. Ultimately, Victor’s downfall is a result of his uncontrollable thirst for knowledge, and is brought about through the monster which is the embodiment of his obsession. Victor is a brilliant scientist who figures out a way to create life from death using galvanism, or electricity.

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Victor denied the monster it’s power by not allowing it to have what it asked for. This refusal caused the monster declare it’s dominance through threatening Victor to do as it says or he will be punished. After Victor refuses to allow his creation to take control, it goes mayhem and reacts with hatred. The creature tried to gain it’s power by deteriorating Victor’s life killing many of the friends and loved ones close to Victor. This pulls the final straw for Victor, he attempted to hunt the monster down and destroy it before it could hurt anyone else.

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His creation of the creature was his own doing and he should have known better than to create something that would cause so much pain and suffering. The creature was created with no soul, which means he has no conscience and can do whatever he wants without feeling any remorse for his actions. He kills people for fun, which is not how a human being should act. The only reason why the creature does what he does because of how Victor made him is because of how cruel Victor was to him when they were together in the beginning stages of their relationship. When it came down to it, even though Victor knew that creating life could be dangerous, he still decided to go through with it anyway despite all the risks involved in doing

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The monster proclaims that he will make Victor’s life miserable by taking the people he loves from him. Emotionally, the reader gains sympathy for Victor because he has and will lose loved ones, but they also know that VIctor has brought this fate upon himself. This shows that Victor is not the killer because the monster has openly declared that he has made Victor’s life horrible. Finally, Victor could not be the killer because he holds too much love for his family. Especially for Elizabeth Victor

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Although the question of “who is to blame” Is up in the air, it’s quite obvious that the monster was directly to blame for the murders. But, when you think about the fact that he was merely created and not born, so he wasn’t able to differentiate right from wrong, or how to control his feelings. His anger was stemmed from his hate of his creator Victor. The wrongs that Victor did unto the creature is what caused the creature’s anger to overtake whatever bit of logical thinking and ability to reason and in a way, throw it out it out the window. So, physically speaking, the creature was to blame.

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One reason Victor is the monster is, he created life not knowing the discipline or the risks he could be taking. When someone wants to create life, they are literally making life. A thing that needs to be cared for and parented. Victor felt that when he created life, he could just let it be and go on with his life. When the monster came to life Victor ran and hid, he didn’t even take the time to inspect it, or instruct it.

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Nonetheless,Victor is overwhelmed and instead of caring for the monster, he seeks an easy way out which ultimately leads to the betrayal and abandonment of the creature. Now, the monster is left without care and is filled with anger and sadness as Victor did not take responsibility to look after him. Therefore the monster goes out of rage and kills people that are closest to victor's life. Evidently, all the monster wanted was for Victor to take pride in his work and both care and accept him for the monster that he was. In addition, the monster tried to get near people with hopes of gaining trust and bonds.

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This shows the humanity in the monster and his tendency to be amiable. He was also able to learn from his mistakes. For example, the creature realized that he needed to stop stealing the family’s supplies after he noticed how much they needed them. Victor, however, didn’t learn from his mistake of creating the monster, and created another. The monster also refers to the family in the cabin as “[his] friends” when they didn’t know of his existence (103).

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The monster was deserted without an advocate to speak for him, as his appearance would not allow him the opportunity to be heard. Despite the monsters revolting appearance he still manages to display many human characteristics such as compassion, love, and intelligence. Victor is both guilty of negligence and the murders, as he did not guide his creation is the ways a creator

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After realizing what Victor had done, he ran away not taking responsibility for what he had made. “The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view. I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky” (161) Victor saw what huge mistake he made and ignored his problem(s) rather than taking accountability that he has created a monster hideous to the human eye. He didn't even return to the apartment. He just fled hoping that abandoning his creation would solve the problem.

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