Frankenstein Persuasive Essay

“I entered the cabin where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend. Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe—gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions” (Shelley 228). Evidence shows that from the perspective of R. Walton the monster and Victor are seen sharing a room. Therefore Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created are two separate beings.

Foremost, Victor could not have killed William at the beginning of the story because he was sick when William was killed. As said in the text, “But I was not the witness of his grief, for I was lifeless and did not recover my senses for a long, long time. This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several

Logically, the reader can see that Victor being sick and days away from his hometown means that Victor could not have killed William. However, the monster would have been able to leave Victor’s residents and make it to his hometown to kill William. Moreover, the monster blames Victor for creating him. As described in the book “Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim” (Shelley 144). 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 “love[s] Elizabeth and look forward to

“My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform” (Shelley 33). They believe that this shows that Victor and his monster are the same person because if Victor never accepted his mother's death then he might start killing people that have learned to move on. However, this information is misleading because his mother died many years before Victor created his monster. “When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt” (Shelley chapter 32). This shows that in reality, Victor could have easily gotten past his mother's death before he went to college. From this, we can see that Victor would not have started his family and that the monster could still be real. Some might still argue that Victor and his monster are the same because Victor has gone so mad that he thinks of himself as a monster. “I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness…” (Shelley 12). However, this information is insufficient because it fails to show all the other times when Victor is talking to his monster. For example, when the monster tells Victor that “[he] must create a female for [the monster] with whom [he] can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for [his] being,’” (Shelley 147). The reader can see that Victor would not tell himself to build