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The Creature s Path to Wickedness The novel centers on the young scientist Victor Frankenstein, who pursues an abnormal experiment to create a mindful creature. Horrified by the hideous thing he brought to life, Victor leaves his creation. Disliked and alone, the creature demands that Victor creates a female partner for him, but when Victor refuses, the bitter creature starts on a murderous rampage, killing several of Victor Family. The novel's climax is in a troubling chase through the Arctic as Victor hopelessly tries to destroy the creature he let out into the world. At its essence, Frankenstein struggles with profound themes of creation, accountability, and the human condition, questioning the very boundaries of ethics. Initially longing …show more content…

When the creature goes looking for kindness from the people in the village, he is shunned and he is attacked due to his monstrous looks, as one of the villagers struck him forcefully with a stick. This societal rejection sticks with the creature and enhances his escalating desire for revenge against cruel humans that judge him solely on his unnatural looks. Cast down by the world s inability to see his gentle nature, the creature turns towards evil as the only observed path to acceptance. The Creature s Malicious Acts The creature s hatred peaks through brutal murders.Furious when Victor says no to making him a partner,the creature vows eternal revenge and kills Victor's brother William by strangling him till he was incapable of movement. He next kills Victor's friend Henry Clerval, leaving the murders fingerprints on his neck. Most frightful, on Victor's wedding night the creature brutally strangled his bride Elizabeth to death, leaving her lifeless and motionless. Victor calls these premeditated, cruel acts a thousand times more hideous than the worst imagined, showing how the creature is

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