Frankenstein’s Monster The novel Frankenstein’s many complex characters all play a role in its plot. By analyzing this book, its characters, and their actions, the main character comes to light. Even though the book is titled Frankenstein and is from Frankenstein’s point of view, the main character is the monster, as the main focus of the story is the monster. The monster also seems to evolve as a character in ways that Frankenstein does not. During the course of the book, he comes to see the error in his ways and recognizes what he has done is wrong. While visiting Frankenstein on this death bed, the monster states, “Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me…I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? (215)” The monster learns a valuable lesson through the course of the book, the lesson being that he comes to realize the damage he has done and how badly it has affected him and those around him. This is unlike Frankenstein, as Frankenstein dies with the same goal he had when the book started, which is to kill the …show more content…
His killing of William, his staying with the family in France, killing Clerval and Elizabeth and his need for Frankenstein’s attention are all major events in the book that drive the plot. His request for a companion being one of the biggest of these actions. He tells Frankenstein, "You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my beings” (136). Without his goal and request for a companion, many major events wouldn’t have occurred, such as Clerval and Elizabeth dying, and much of the plot wouldn’t exist. His quest for companionship is the main reason that the plot moves in Frankenstein, therefore making the book about him and his story. (change from theme to