Lack Of Responsibility In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“People think responsibility is hard to bear”. It’s not a problem. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of importance” (Henry Kissinger). Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a young scientist named Victor who goes against the laws of nature to create a superior being which leads to his downfall and destruction. He creates a new species that he abandons and does not take accountability for. In the novel, Mary Shelley communicates that having a lack of responsibility can have negative and permanent consequences. After successfully creating his creature, Victor leaves in fear and never thinks to turn back. He ignores the creature's existence and avoids taking responsibility

Instead of taking responsibility for the being he made, Victor runs away and does not think to return. Victor avoids taking responsibility for the deaths the creature has caused. Instead, he sat in silence while watching a loved one being sentenced to death. During the trial of Victor's family friend and servant, he states “My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial. I believed in her innocence; I knew it. Could the dmon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?” (Shelley 57). Victor knew that his creation was the murderer and did not stand to stop the trial. He did not say he was the reason for his brother's murder, neither did he say that he knew the murderer, he sat in silence not taking responsibility for his brother's death, and now a beloved servant. If Victor stood up to testify that she was not the murderer and that he was responsible, then he could have saved many people's lives and avoided all the disasters ahead. The neglect and lack of responsibility for the creature created hatred between the creature and