To Blame For Violence In Frankenstein

In the novel Frankenstein, there is a lot of blame being thrown around for the violence that takes place. Victor Frankenstein ultimately blames himself and as a reader it 's easy to understand why. “Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.” The first obvious place to start is the fact that he is the creator of the evil menace that 's behind the stricken violence. Not only that, but he also never taught this huge and overwhelmingly powerful monster right from wrong, he just abandoned him from the start. Lastly, when he did finally speak to the creature it was Victor who ensued the first act of violence verbally with threats and harsh words. No wonder the monster couldn 't accept humans into his life, he resented the first human he came in contact with that brought him to

Before reading the novel, people assume the beast created is the one inflicting violence on villagers left and right. He was thrown into the world with no communication skills, nobody told him rules to live by, he was expected to learn this on his own, or not at all. Victor created him, this was his responsibility to teach him, like a parent teaches their child. Victor is the one to blame for the violence ensued in this novel, and he knows it too. He created him in the first place so any act of violence done by the creature is essentially on him. Plus, he himself inflicted violence towards the creature in the long run with verbal threats and had the intention to kill him. Blame is so easily thrown around in this novel but in the long run, the blame is put on the back of he who created the creature. Victor, the protagonist, is the man to blame in this, he knows it, the creature knows it, and the reader knows it. Sometimes, novels don’t always have an obvious hero, sometimes even a beast can be a