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The Role Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Unchained In Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, there is a wide variety of monsters. Out of the well known monsters represented in Frankenstein, one of them is the reason for all of the wrong that occurs throughout the book. That monster is the creator himself, Victor Frankenstein. In this novel, Victor embeds a variety of negative emotions into his creation who goes on to inflict damage on his loved ones. Due to the creations actions and its appearance, it is labeled as the monster. Although Victor Frankenstein may think he created a monster, he actually released the monster within himself.
Additionally, Victors very first thoughts of his creation were of unkind gratitude. In the book, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley states, “For this I had deprived …show more content…

The creation knew that the murder of William was wrong. He just could not bear seeing a member of the Frankenstein family face to face. Once Victor caught a glimpse of Williams corpse, he knew for certain that his creation was the perpetrator. Victor proceeded to stress about the whole situation. With the ongoing stress, his hatred with his creation began to grow even larger than it was before. All of this hardship between Victor and his creation were due to Victors labels. If his labeling were avoided, the death of William would have been averted. Later in the novel Victor and his creations hatred towards each other lowers and they come to an understandable deal. Victor later on proceeds to break that deal. Furthermore, this impacted his creation greatly. According to a post on Hey Sigmund, “When we don't experience trust with someone, it seems impossible that we may ever experience it again. Losing trust also has an edge of humiliation attached to it for many of us, as if we are found out to have been foolish to trust in the first place”(Kashtan). Once Victor broke the deal between him and his creation, all of the trust between them was lost. Victor knew that the deal his creation proposed would have helped both of them. But Victor looked past the good

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