Examples Of Victor's Fault In Frankenstein

A Creator's Fault With every invention in this world, good or bad, there is a creator as they have invented it. Although there are many questions among society in how much the creator should be held responsible for these inventions. Should they be held fully as they are the inventors? Or just partly because they cannot control what other people do? In Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein, a man named Victor Frankenstein plays God and creates a life, which turns out to be a monster. This monster throughout the story slowly kills all of Victor’s family one by one including Victor himself. Therefore, since Victor was the creator of this monster, how much responsibility did he hold for all the harm he caused? Victor initially as the creator of

He first opens his eyes, then takes his steps, learns to eat, and eventually feels pain, both mentally and physically. It is to be noted that while the creature is experiencing all these things, he has nobody to guide him throughout it. When a baby is first born they have a parent, and while the monster should’ve had Victor, he did not. This where Victor failed as a creator because it was his responsibility to teach the monster about life and guide him onto the proper path into society. This is evident when the creature states, “I was poor, helpless, miserable wretch: I knew, and could distinguish nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept”

Throughout the whole book, he kills somebody that is truly close to Victor from his little brother to his own wife. Although can one blame the monster for doing this, he was left to die, as well to being hated by everyone he sees. Any other person would either become very depressed or do what he did and take his anger out on others. This is evident when the creature says, “ The winner fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by their flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues” (Shelley 175). This quote takes places after the people in the cottage do no accept the monster, and so in response, he decides to burn down their cottage in anger. This fully falls on Victor’s shoulder because he never had a figure tell him from right to wrong. If Victor was there the moment he was born and taught him right from wrong, he most likely would not have burned down that cottage house. The monster would’ve understood that even though they did not accept him, he cannot burn down their cottage, but yet to simply move on. The monsters first response to everything was to hurt them the way they hurt him, which could’ve been taught