Victor's Revenge In Frankenstein

How Victor Frankenstein Is Responsible For The Monsters Revenge The monster in Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein” was abandoned by Victor as his creation terrified him. The monster acts as a child, even though he looks like an extremely disfigured man. When Victor abandons the creature, the creature does not know what to do and feels lost. A series of events lead the monster to isolation with a feeling of despair and he vows revenge on Victor’s family. The monster dealt with mistreatment by other humans constantly, but Victor established himself as the root of the problem. Victor Frankenstein created a person that looked horrific but was innocent and young-minded, until the isolation, social rejection, and misinterpretation from Victor’s abandonment

When the monster first lives in the woods, he sets himself in a hovel in a little camp where he first encounters other humans. The monster helps out these humans in unseen ways because they suffer from starvation and he learns “that these labors, performed by an invisible hand, greatly astonished them; and once or twice I heard them, on these occasions, utter the words “good spirit” “wonderful” (Shelly, ch. 12). One of the humans there can not see due to blindness, and the monster builds up the courage to talk to him one day. All is well until the rest of the family walks into the cabin and sees the grotesque monster. Unable to look past the appearance of the monster, they attack him and beat him with sticks. This starts the beginning of the rage for Victor that builds up in the monster. The monster goes to Geneva to look for Victor and along the way, a man “aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired. I sank to the ground…” (Shelly, ch. 16). The monster vows a vengeance to all of mankind after this and then faints. After traveling further, the monster finds a little boy in the woods, but when the boy saw him, he screamed in fear. The monster grew tired of the constant rejection from society and in a fit of rage attacked the boy. While this happens, he finds out that the boy is victor's brother and after he kills

At the end of the conversation, the monster explains that since “man will not associate with me…” a companion “...as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me” (Shelly, cr. 16). Victor does not want to abide by this request, but the monster insists and eventually Victor agrees as he feels some guilt for causing the monster pain. This could have turned out as a good path for Victor to put himself on and to right the wrongs of the monster. The next abomination that will have life plagues Victor's mind as the ethical nature of creating not one, but two monsters seem wrong. The destruction of the monster's companion turns out to be the straw that broke the camel's back. He vows that “revenge remains – revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery” (Shelly, ch. 20). Pain continues to rain upon the monster as the pursuit of happiness slowly