Is Victor Frankenstein Selfish

The book Frankenstein is written by Mary Shelley and was published in January 1818. While reading the story, I got a feel for what a monster and its traits are while also getting to see more about the characters themselves. I believe that multiple characters within the story showed characteristics of being a monster. Not just the actual monster itself but Victor Frankenstein as well. Victor Frankenstein had many selfish and evil actions that point to him being the true monster in this story. Whereas the monster's evil may have never been his true self but could have been what he was turned into. “When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?"

He becomes so obsessed with this, that he doesn’t see the work he’s doing isn’t ethical anymore. Through this hard work, he ends up creating a living being that is especially monstrous. Victor Frankenstein ends up being so scared of his own creation that he abandons it in a world that the monster knows nothing about. "I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited; where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life."He brought a creature to life, and without any responsibility or sense of morality, he tries to leave him like nothing. Through doing this we can see that Victor only truly cared about himself, and how the actions of him making the monster, and the monster itself can fall back on

One way that we can see this is through Justine, getting falsely accused and arrested for the murder of William that the monster committed. Well, Victor Frankenstein claimed he couldn’t do anything in the situation. In fact, he could just by telling them of the monster's existence. He claimed to be too scared that everyone would think he was crazy, so instead sat there, and did nothing at all as an innocent person got sent away and hung. “A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine; but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered, as the ravings of a madman, and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.” Victor Frankenstein could’ve told them about what the monster did to his brother but instead was too scared of what would happen to him in return showing true