Who Should Frankenstein Be Able To Control Someone's Fate?

Who should be able to control someone’s fate? In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a curious man named Victor Frankenstein lets his ambitions get the best of him when he creates a giant creature out of many stolen body parts from corpses. The creature is over 8 feet tall and has yellowish skin and scars all over his body, at his creation, he could barely speak, though as the novel progresses, he is able to understand and communicate deeply. Victor Frankenstein doesn’t consider the consequences of his creation’s appearance, and he himself is so appalled by it that he abandons the creature to fend for himself. The ways that society treated the creature in Frankenstein are completely unjustified because the creature had done nothing wrong,

At many points at the beginning of the story, he expresses feeling hopeful and ready to interact. In one instance, after the creature had been shunned by humanity, he was telling Victor about how he was at fault for all the events that had occurred, he stated: “Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.” (Shelley 114). He was previously happy and content, but the way that he was excluded from society made him miserable, and begin to seek revenge, which resulted in the killings of many people close to victor- his creator. The creature killed Justine, an innocent friend of the family, William, Victor’s younger brother, and Henry Clerval, Victor’s close friend. All of this exemplifies that the creature only killed these people because Victor and others had wronged him, and he was seeking revenge in the only way he saw

He does this by collecting firewood for a family of humans, one of whom is an older blind man. After the creature has been doing kind things for the family, they still react horribly when they found him speaking to the blind man. “At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me 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. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.” (Shelley 161). After this interaction that the creature had, he had a different attitude toward humanity, and he felt as though there was no point in attempting to please other members of