Humans create the Other, either through physical creation or the idea of undesirable traits coming together only to be hated upon instinct. Commonly it is ideas that create the Other although, in Frankenstein, both possibilities come together. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster, takes both hideous aspects of human appearance and pairs them with outcasted human traits. To begin, Dr. Frankenstein has a singular goal, to create life out of something inanimate, something previously dead. Such a focused and morally significant goal gives many the impression that he is trying to play God. Frankenstein himself supports the theory with his own musings. "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures …show more content…
Humans are unattracted to weakness as an inability to speak would be. Virtually everything about the monster drives others away and it all leads back to his creation. ¨For Frankenstein, who is dubiously in love with his own poly-morphously disastrous history, the fateful event to which every other catastrophe is prelude or postscript is the creation¨ (Sherwin). Creation was where all the problems began and the monster has not forgotten who left him and in the end he claims the lives of four people closest to Frankenstein. This injustice, while executed by the monster, can be directly tied back to the doctor. He had a chance to make a real scientific advancement but as soon as the creation woke up he made a choice to leave it all alone. Frankenstein refuses to take his share of the blame despite the fact that he failed to have the foresight to know that what he created would have the ability to murder. ¨He never once considers whether the creature´s ¨malignity¨ might have been prevented, as the creature himself repeatedly insists, by loving care in infancy; he never asks whether he was in any way responsible for the creature´s development¨ …show more content…
This was my duty; but there was another still paramount to that. My duties towards my fellow-creatures had greater claims to my attention, because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery (Shelley