The Theme Of Revenge In Victor Shelley's Frankenstein

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In the book Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, the main character, Victor Frankenstein discovers he has a passion for science. This is realized after he experienced the devastating loss of his mother. Due to the pain he faced, from this devastating event, he created a desire for resurrecting the dead. For many years, he became occupied in completing his goal. Although when he successfully finished, he was not pleased with the outcome. Victor said, “now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (Shelley, 35) Due to the fear that Victor has toward his creation; Victor decides he wants nothing to do with the creature. Eventually, this put the creature in a difficult situation …show more content…

The first act of revenge the creature encountered is the death of Victor’s brother, William. One evening Victor received a letter saying that his brother, William, has been murdered. This period was a devastating time for the Frankenstein family, but they were also suspicious as to who would have committed this crime? One night after William’s death, Victor ran into his creation, which leads him to believe that he was the murderer. In fact, he was and the reader later knows this when the creature says, “[I]grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment, he lay dead at my feet” (Shelley, 102) making William his first victim. When the creature left the crime scene, he made sure there was no proof leading back to him. When William was dead, the creature noticed a locket around his neck, which he took. Later planting the locket on Justine as she herself slept, the creature framed Justine for William’s murder. Although the Frankenstein family knew that Justine was innocent, but there was no other proof pointing to someone else. Eventually, after much debating, Justine took the blame and was executed. From the death of Victor’s brother, William, the creature learns that he can “create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him" (Shelley, 103), therefore inspiring him to continue to torment Victor in the

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