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Who Is To Blame In Frankenstein

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Who are you to blame? There are only a few things you can’t control in this world. How tall you will be, who your birth parents are, how you learn things, the list goes on. However, there are some things you can control. One of these things are your actions. The way you respond to certain situations is something you and only you can control. Which leaves us with the big question, do people’s formative years dictate what/who you become and do they have hope of redemption once their personalities form? No, peoples formative years do not dictate what/who you become, experiences do. Experiences change our opinions on things all the time. How many times have you thought that a person was one way and then the more experiences you have with them your view changes. Ted Bundy, “One of the most notorious serial killers and rapist in the 20th century” is proof that your formative years have nothing to do with who you …show more content…

Victor Frankenstein created this creature that was raised from death and brought to life by science. When the creature came to life, he loved the world and his creator. Similar to Ted Bundy, Frankenstein’s creature was very intelligent. He was self taught and learned to read. It was only until Frankenstein refused to make his creature a woman by destroying her in front of him. Only until then, witnessing that horrific and table turning experience did the creature turn on his creator and wanting revenge by killing all the people Victor loves. At this point, in the book Frankenstein’s creature says “ I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! you may hate; but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever” (122). The creature blames Victor for everything bad that has happened in his

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Victor Frankenstein turns away from his responsibilities by ignoring the existence of his creation. Throughout the novel, Victor is constantly running away from the monster and not giving him attention, which resulted in the monsters change of personalities. For example, in page 71 the creation said, “All men hate the wretched; how must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.” This quote suggests that because of the ignorance of Victor the monster began to become evil and have the urge to seek

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Although the question of “who is to blame” Is up in the air, it’s quite obvious that the monster was directly to blame for the murders. But, when you think about the fact that he was merely created and not born, so he wasn’t able to differentiate right from wrong, or how to control his feelings. His anger was stemmed from his hate of his creator Victor. The wrongs that Victor did unto the creature is what caused the creature’s anger to overtake whatever bit of logical thinking and ability to reason and in a way, throw it out it out the window. So, physically speaking, the creature was to blame.

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