Victor Frankenstein’s reliability in the story, “Frankenstein”, by Mary Shelly, seems to be very questionable at times due to the fact that he is biased towards his emotions and what he felt during the time of those events. Frankenstein is a man who speaks of much truth but he feels emotion very deeply which could deter the altered version of the story from what really happened. He doesn’t appear to be doing this to make him look better in the end, but just to show how he reads through moments of his life with an unstable mind affected by emotions. When the creature first came to life by Frankenstein's hand, Victor is completely bewildered by the end result and what he truly made. He was repulsed by the very same creature that he spent years …show more content…
The creation of his creature was the one who was the real cause of both of their deaths. It had murdered William, whose death was put on the hands of one of the servants of the Frankenstein household, Justine Moritz who was deemed guilt and suffered the death penalty in place of the monster. The guilt that Victor was flooded with after this event seemed to put him in a much worse place then he was before even after he recovered from making the monster. Victor’s more manic thoughts are more open after these events. One of which is the fact that he believed that “all sound of joy or complacency was torture to [him]; solitude was [his] only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude.” (Shelly, Chapter 9). These thoughts by Victor himself seem to be only thoughts of a deranged or insane person who are so haunted by their feelings and actions that they believe that solitude is their only option. This furthermore proves how untrustworthy Victor is with his word even if it not on purpose. He feels extreme remorse for those whose death’s could have beened prevented with not building the creature in the first place, but the consequences of doing so is what he has to deal