Abandonment lead to murder. Horror started war. Narcissism began vengeance. The image of the face brought him to terrified shrieks of horror, revolt poured into his soul; the face was everything wrong, evil, and unjust in his world. Memories of the face haunted him every moment he lived; those memories would never go away, for the face was the face of a monster: Victor. Mary Shelley expertly alludes the reader to the fact Victor is the true monster since he has been the cause for all the pain, suffering, and cruelty throughout the novel by showing Victor’s “monster” isn’t at fault but rather a victim. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of a monster is “a powerful person or thing that cannot be controlled and that …show more content…
Victor stitched together his limbs and organs, but he also stitched the rage into his soul by rejecting him; Victor believed he knew the real killer for he asked himself, “Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother?” (50). This thought came to him after lightning light up a window where the silhouette of his creation appeared and “No sooner did the idea crossed [his] imagination, then [he] became convinced of its truth” (50). He knew in his heart that the creature was the cause of his brother’s death, but he did nothing about it, for he believed his “tale was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness by the vulgar” (53); at the trial he didn’t try to defend her innocence because if he did everyone would’ve hated him for creating such a monster (57). As a result of his cowardness, Justine “confess[ed]; but [she] confessed a lie” (58) which lead to her unjust demise. The creature killed, but so did Victor; he allowed an innocent girl to be killed instead of taking responsibility; while the creature killed in spite, Victor killed for self preservation- a monstrous