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The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '

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Leading up to chapter 23, the monster is in complete control, changing the course of Victor’s life. The monster is always on Victor’s mind, which makes Victor very cautious in all of his actions. Victor will not even admit to anyone that the monster is the murderer of William, in fear that everyone will think of him as the murderer because he is the creator. While the monster is not directly present at all times, this monster seems to be haunting Victor, heeding Victor from living out his life. Elizabeth dearly loves Victor and wants them to get married, but Victor is weary because the monster told Victor that he, “will be with [Victor] on [his] wedding-night!” (Shelley 186). Victor is very precarious because Elizabeth and his father are the only people left in his life, and Victor does not want to risk their lives, as well. The monster does not have to be present to inflict fear within Victor. Victor fears this monster, and is trying not to do anything that could potentially anger the monster. …show more content…

Living a lonely life, the monster wants a companion who is as miserable as him. Victor at first agrees to create a new monster, but when Victor takes back his word, the monster comes through with his threats. When Victor first tells the monster that he will not create another the monster replies with, “Remember that I have power … you are my creator, but I am your master”. Even the monster knew that he had complete control over Victor because of his size, strengths, and smarts. The monster asserts his power over Victor, and does not let down from the beginning of his killings to his

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Victor and the monster both have desires that they want to achieve, but they both don’t get to as they’re problems they have to face, which these problems have serious effects on them and their goals. Victor and Elizabeth both about to be married, but the monster came and killed Elizabeth and Victor ran away, far and far through the north where eventually he died in the ship, lonely just like the monster was too. Victor discovers Elizabeth’s dead body and shows his reaction upon it. “Great God! Why did I not then expire!

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He creates a monster out of his desire for the secret of life that ends up killing his best friend Henry, his father, brother, and sister/wife Elizabeth. Rushed with guilt and self-disgust because of his hideous creature's devilish actions, Victor could not tell anyone until he had captured a friend. Cutting himself off from the world entirely, Victor’s only obsession was his creation and its demise. Victor states, “Again, I vow vengeance; again, I devote thee, my miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish."

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Once victor tells the monster, the monster does not take it well. He swears that he will be at victor's wedding when he marries Elizabeth. As the wedding approaches, Victor and Elizabeth are walking around the grounds. While Victor is paranoid about the

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The monster then wants to monitor all of Victor’s progress. After agreeing to create a female monster, Victor starts to doubt his decision. Victor’s father has realized that Victor looks troubled most of the time. Victor at this time

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At the start of the novel, Victor recalls his childhood and the events that led to the story to come. During the recount, we are introduced to Elizabeth who was presented to him by his mother as a “pretty present” for him and he interpreted himself to therefore be her owner disregarding her autonomy (Shelley 21; ch 1). This sets the tone for the treatment of Elizabeth throughout the novel; she is treated as an extension of Victor’s possessions, an object without autonomy. Preceding her death later in the novel, Elizabeth expresses her concern for Victor’s behavior, beckoning him to come to bed on their wedding night. He refuses and instead searches for the monster as he recalls the monster's words, “I will be with you on your wedding night!”

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Both Victor and society’s lack of nurture is to blame for the violent shift. They are now sworn to live revolving around each other’s displeasure and pain. The creature goes on to frame Justine, kill Henry Clarval, Murder Elizabeth on her wedding night, and indirectly cause the death of Victor’s father and then Victor himself. Although Victor is the cause of the monster going haywire, Shelley is also commenting on the depths of moral responsibility. Although he was wronged countless times, the

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Since Victor does not create an “Eve” for the monster, it marks a turning point for the novel and increases the monsters craving for a companionship, which Victor has refused to give him. Once Victor destroys “Eve” for good, the monster goes on a frenzy and decides to rebel against Victor. The monster seeks vengeance and decided to want to destroy Victor’s family, as Victor did so to the monsters. The monster strangles William to death and made it look like Justine did it by framing her and putting William’s locket in her dress. After Victor marries Elizabeth, the monster also kills her.

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Eventually, he became dissatisfied with wandering on his own and being rejected by other living beings so he returns to his creator and demands, not asks, the man to create him a companion, a wife of his own likeness. For months, the monster follows Victor to watch his progress and ensure that he continues with the project. He follows the man over countryside, through deserts and woods, and even across the English Channel, just to make sure that his loneliness would be quenched through this being whom Victor was to create. When Victor failed to follow through with the project, the monster turned his ideals and thoughts away from simply living in an isolated world with another of his kind to dragging Victor down into the anguish that the monster itself feels. From that point on, he continues killing and slowly drawing Victor into anguish with the deaths of the scientist’s love ones like Henry Clerval and Elizabeth.

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Because Victor did not realize that the monster might be talking about the murder of a loved one instead of his own, he did not think to protect Elizabeth or tell her about the situation, ending in her death. After Victor processes the death of his late wife, he begins to think about what has transpired in the course of the last few months and says, “The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife, even at the moment I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend” (Page 200). This is Victor realizing that he is at fault for all his loved ones deaths. He was not thinking of anybody else when he created the monster, and he

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Victor’s strained relationship with his loved ones resembles the disconnection the Monster has with humans. Victor feels responsible for his friend's and family's deaths, he does not spend much time with them and therefore, is not there to protect them from the Monster. Victor successfully creates the Monster but is horrified by its existence and abandons it, this is why the Monster does not have a great relationship with humans. Victor's obsession with his scientific pursuits leads him to isolate himself; he fears rejection and abandonment. When Victor receives a letter from his father about the death of his brother, William, he promptly travels to Geneva and visits the place where William was killed.

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He has to live with the knowledge that the creature has entered the world and the guilt continues to overwhelm him. Victor realizes he must destroy the creature before he causes more destruction. He feels less isolated physically when he is marrying his wife, yet the monster continuously haunts him. The monster then kills Victor’s wife, opening his eyes to how isolated the monster is and how badly he wants a mate. Victor is now experiencing how the monster feels being without someone to

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Victor has caused him so much suffering and sadness, which makes him want to inflict the most painful thing known to man, every loved one being killed off one by one. When the monster kills victor's wife, he is deprived of almost every form of female companionship at once, just as he has done to the monster. Elizabeth dies because at a crucial moment victor overlooks her. The monster tells him “I will be with you on your wedding night”. It never occurs to him that the monster threatens elizabeth.

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Victor thought that his creation would be beautiful but that's not quite how it turned out. All in all the monster turned out to be “hideous” and a “killer”nothing that Victor expected it to be. Victor wanted nothing to do with the monster because of his hideous exterior, As a result, he started losing close family members and loved ones because the monster killed them out of spite of wanting to get “ revenge” on Victor for the way he was treated.

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On the other hand, victor character is perceived by the monster through his view of Victor as a cold creator and an unloving abandoner. Comparing Victor to God and himself to Adam, the monster says, "Many times I have considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition" (Marry Shelley pg. 132). The monster outlines his perspective of his "birth, " and soon after, Victor is fleeing from his lab. The creature was very confused. victors response: "I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness: innumerable sounds rang in my ears, and on all sides, various scents saluted me."

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He then immediately runs away, feeling regret about the monster he created. Throughout the novel Victor tries to stray far from his creation. The monster eventually finds Victor when he is alone and asks a favor from him. The favor is to create him a mate. The monster tells Victor he will take his mate and go far away.

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