Gris Grimly's Frankenstein has a very consistent theme of revenge. We see this throughout the story from both Victor Frankenstein’s and his creature’s perspectives. We see this because when one of them does something, the other does something in return. It is a never-ending cycle that just causes more harm than good, and we can trace all of the issues to Victor and his passion for finding ways to bring people back to life. This ultimately backfires because in one of his experiments, he creates a monster set on revenge against Victor. The main reason that the creature is seeking revenge is that he was abandoned by Victor and wasn’t given a chance to prove himself. Once the creature was brought to life, Victor ran from it in fear. There was a …show more content…
Beautiful!... But these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes” and page 44 says “As it forced itself in through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.” This illustrates what Victor thinks about the creature based on looks alone. He didn’t waste any time in assuming that the creature was violent and dangerous. This causes the creature to feel a need to seek revenge on Victor to have some internal closure. He finds this “closure” by making sure that Victor always lives in fear, sadness, and loneliness, then dies at his hands. Victor also sought revenge on the creature, but it was because of what the creature was doing to get revenge on him. As seen on page 74, Victor says, “I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of anger on his head, and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.” He says this because the creature had killed William and framed Justine Moritz. Justine ended up being convicted of murder and electrocuted. Later, when the creature kills Victor’s best friend, Henry, he gets very sick and goes