Victor Frankenstein Responsibility

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Victor Frankenstein assumes the sole responsibility for the deaths of his friends and family due to his inability to learn from nature and past experiences in terms of his creation. Victor disregards the teachings of nature and constructs a monster capable of destruction, he ignores his preceding experiences with self-education and aggravates the monster to kill, and fails to protect his loved ones by his incapacity to deduce the creature’s objectives from it’s prior activities.
Victor does not take into account the lessons of nature when he creates the monster. Frankenstein does not recognize that the beast is estranged from the beauty and righteousness of nature when he sculpts its frame. During his work, Victor feels, “[his] eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.” Victor is so driven to create the monster that he is blinded from the creature’s appearance. After his labor is finished, Frankenstein is staggered by the repugnance of his handiwork. He exclaims in horror, “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!” The beast’s features are so obscene they drive people to either flee or attack. Alongside its fearsome guise, the monster is bigger, stronger, and faster than a regular human. Victor implements larger “parts” in the construction of the creature to simplify the process. The monster stands eight feet tall, a good two and a half feet taller than the average person during the time. Along with its massive stature, the fiend is defined as obtaining immense strength and speed. Victor states that an attempt to pursue the cre...

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...how distraught Elizabeth would be if he were to die before the wedding and “resolve[s] not to fall before [his] enemy without a bitter struggle.” It is not that he is unmotivated, Frankenstein is more than willing to “put and end” to the monster if he were to discover its whereabouts.
Even with his vicious animosity towards the creature, Victor is utterly unprepared for what is to come. He warns no one of what he believes will be his impending doom because it would “frightening.” He undoubtedly is not in his right mind, lacking a scheme of any kind to defend himself. Victor situates himself in the worst thinkable situation, and is too blinded by his rage to fathom it. The entire crisis could have been averted if Victor had let anyone know about the monster. Unfortunately for Victor, he doesn’t, and his friends and family pay the ultimate price for his deficiencies.

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