The True Monster Victor Frankenstein was a brilliant man who was lost in his own ambitions. His ambitions are why he became a “Monster”. In the movie and the book, Victor was able to partly succeed in his ambitions, but this brought or nearly brought his downfall. In Frankenstein, we will talk about Victor’s actions, his motivations for them, and his overall desires. First, Victor’s actions are what led to him becoming a “monster”. In the book and in the movie, he created a monster not thinking about the possible consequences of his actions even though he only thought of good. In the movie, it was shown that he took body parts off his dead roommate to further his studies, which shows he was taking it too far. In the book, Victor says “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs” (Mary Shelley, Chapter 4). This shows that Victor does not think of the possible implications of his actions, even though he thinks of good. All in all, Victor is the true monster because he was too driven by his research to think of the bad effects this could have on his entire race, even disgracing life itself in the process. …show more content…
In the movie and the book, Victor does most of this to further his own knowledge. Now he may have wanted to do this to better humankind and “avenge” his brother, but his main problem was that he wanted to further his intelligence, which shows his inhumane actions. In the text, it states “The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine” (Mary Shelley, Chapter 2). This shows that he would dig into the world’s secrets and do’s and don'ts just to further his own knowledge. Overall, Victor is the true monster because he committed blasphemous actions to further his knowledge and