The novel, Frankenstein, ultimately ended the way it ended due to the one vital secret that Victor kept to himself. This critical secret that Victor kept private was his creation of the monster. This monster caused a scene of carnage, and this lead to many tragic happenings throughout the story. Secrecy can torture people’s souls because when Victor kept an immense secret from everyone, it lead to deaths of many innocent individuals. Victor’s tortured soul exacerbated due to the death of William and Justine. Secrecy was the main initiative for this event because Shelley said, “During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture. It was to be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings... A thousand times …show more content…
Victor’s current state of mind is like that because of the astonishment he was in when he saw a glimpse of the monster. Due to the amazement, Victor ran away, and he could not believe at what he actually accomplished with his curiosity. This state of surprise unfortunately turned into a state of horror, and he caught a fever from all of this. He did not know how he could keep an enormous secret like this to himself without anybody knowing about it. He did not know what to do so he isolated himself from society and this just ate his piece of mind away. As he kept thinking about this situation, his health worsened, and he forgot about everything else that he cared about such as family. He was trying to get his health back to normal after all of this, so he basically forgot about the creature and his family. Later in the story, the secret started to annoy Victor even more since the creature began to attack his family members. Victor could not help his family out because he decided to keep the secret to himself, which induced the torture of his