Warnings To Recognize From Past Mistakes In today’s brutal world, the majority of humanity has become greedy and cold. However, individuals are not born this way, in fact, most people begin their lives with high hopes and ambitions. These aspirations are usually unattainable or diminished by an oppressive upper power in society. This then causes man to become mean and rigid towards others as exemplified through Victor, in Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein. In the story, Victor embodies the carelessness of mankind by creating and abandoning the monster, which serves as a warning for civilization to change its ways. In the beginning of the novel, an ambitious Victor Frankenstein describes himself as a curious individual who possesses a thirst