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Victor Frankenstein’s Creation and the Role of God The main character in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, who is Victor Frankenstein, is regarded by literary scholars as imitating the role of God through his acts of creation. David Soyka describes Victor Frankenstein’s creation as “[being] much the same way as God create[d] man in [h]is own image” (168). Frankenstein is accused by many as playing God due to, not only, his purposes for the creation, but also his initial reactions to his own creation. This paper will analyze Frankenstein’s reasons for the creation of the creature and how it correlates with him portraying the image of God. Victor Frankenstein, since his youth, expressed an interest of the sciences and, as an adult, he pursued this …show more content…

The monster had wondered for seasons in the wilderness and discovered a cottage, where an old, blind man would live with his family. The old, blind man showed the creature no disrespect, however, his family did upon returning to the cottage. “Felix darted forward, and, with [such a] supernatural force [,] tore me [away] from his father, to whose knees I clung: in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground, and struck me violently with a stick” (Shelley 135). Upon the return of the old man’s child, Felix, the creature was violently beat, and, thus, he was forced to continue his journey. By the actions of Felix when he discovers his father with this creature, the monster was met with repulsion from the old man’s family. The repulsion that was subjected onto him was, in fact, very similar to the repulsion from his creator, Victor Frankenstein. While forced to continue his journey, the monster was met with more repulsion and abandonment by society. “[U]gly wretch!” and “[h]ideous monster” were examples of words used, by society, to describe the creature (Shelley 142). It is here, where Victor Frankenstein’s creation soon discovers that he will never be able to live within society and will be forced to live …show more content…

As it can be determined, Victor Frankenstein did an extremely poor job on playing the role of God. God, as the creator, is usually depicted as being loving and caring towards his own creations, however, Frankenstein as the creator of the monster was anything, but loving towards his own creation. Furthermore, God creates a female companion, Eve, to aid Adam’s loneliness, which paints a picture of a nurturing creator. Victor Frankenstein does no such things for his creation. Frankenstein, as the technical creator, should have cared for and nurtured his new creation, but, instead, he becomes so repulsed by his project’s results, which he extremely regrets ever creating, that he abandons his creature. While, society did, in fact, aid in the contribution to the monster’s evil, his creator, Victor Frankenstein ultimately caused it due to his actions as the creator. If Frankenstein would have properly played the role of God and creator, the monster may just have turned out

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