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Is Victor Frankenstein Guilty

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Who was more guilty? Who deserved the blame for the atrocities that happened during the time the monster had on this earth? Was it the creator, Victor Frankenstine? Who made life and abandoned his responsibilities of nurturing that life. Or was it the monster? Who committed the most heinous crimes out of spite and hatred for mankind. Firstly,Victor created this beast and neglected it. Hideous as it was, it was his creation and his responsibility. If he was not prepared for this, he should not have played god, and created this being in the first place. But, the creature can not be “let off the hook” just yet either. He came into this world uninfluenced by the society’s sins. He was given the same equal chance that is given to every man. He …show more content…

When the creature asked victor to make him a female it was not a request, it was a threat. The creature used his strength and abilities to push Victor into making a female. Victor had no choice, lest he cast his family into great danger. “You are my creator, but I am your master; obey! (pg. 282)” Victor understands that if he creates this female then he will be further endangering his fellow man. He makes sure that the female would never live, even if it put everyone he loved in great danger. After this, the creature went on a rampage! First killing Henry Clerval, Victor’s best friend, and later Elizabeth. Victor then went hunting the creature because of the pain that is had caused him. He let his hatred for the creature consume him entirely. His journey in pursuit of the creature absorbed every last bit of life that he had left. But when the creature paid his respects to Victor Frankenstine he acknowledged that what he had done had not caused him the happiness that he so desperately wished for.
“Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?(pg. 378)” He still saw that he was not to be fully blamed for his actions. With His creator gone he felt no more reason for living. He understood all the crimes he had committed and he hates himself for it. “You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination

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The creature explains why his actions towards his creator, “I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself”(Shelley, 263). However, the creature is sad about the event contrary to what someone would expect. He demonstrates once again that deep inside he didn’t wanted anything of this to happen because he was just looking for his own happiness.

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Victor is dreading making the female creature and keeps putting it off. While making the creature, Victor decides this is enough and destroys it in front of the creature. The creature gives Victor a frightening threat. “‘I shall be with you on your wedding-night’” (158).

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When Victor rejected The Creatures want for a girl companion he replied, “I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night.” When this was said, Victor knew of the possible danger that Elizabeth was now in but refused to warn her of this danger and this lead to her death. The penalties that Victor faced due to keeping the existence of this creature a secret it what lead to the deaths of the people that he cared for, and the fact that he had the ability to save these lives but chose to not even try says a lot about

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In the beginning, Victor reveals his timidity towards occurring disasters. When the creature comes to life, Victor realizes that it is grotesque and describes, “I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep” (42). Upon realizing the unfortunate turnout of the creation, Victor avoids confronting his fault by hurrying off and hiding in his bedroom. Accordingly, Victor is unable to control his creation. When the creature leaves after threatening Victor about a tragedy on his wedding night, Victor asks himself, “Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?”

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“From you only could I hope for succour, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred. Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind. But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form. (123)

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In reality, he is disgusted by the sight of his creation so he abandons it leaving it all alone in the world without any guidance and runs away to the next room. Victor himself suffered from being a social outcast and now he bestowed the same feeling onto the creature by abandoning him. By treating the creature as an outcast, “he will become wicked … divide him, a social being, from society, and you impose upon him the irresistible obligations—malevolence and selfishness” (Caldwell). Not only is Victor selfish for abandoning his creature but he is shallow as well. Instead of realizing that he achieved his goal of bringing life to an inanimate body he runs way because of how hideous it is.

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