Who Is Victor Frankenstein Revengeful

Would you make friend with an eight-foot-tall giant with a hideous looking appearance? A monster is created by a man named Victor Frankenstein in 1790s Switzerland in the book called Frankenstein. After Victor finishes his scientific experiment, he is unsatisfied and horrified by his creation. He immediately rejects the monster and flees away from the laboratory. The monster is disappointed and hurt by victor’s rejection, so the monster just leave the scene. Many people think the monster is intimidating and revengeful. Indeed, the monster is revengeful and violent; however, he is also compassionate and terrifically lonely because no one wants to give him love and understanding.
Immediately after the creation of a horrifying monster, Victor

Frankenstein feels regretful and scared. When Victor runs away from the laboratory and return home, the Monster follows him. What the monster tries to get are love and attention from his “father” Victor; however, Victor just leaves him alone in his own world. In some way, the monster is just like a new born baby, who just seeks for care from others. Not only does Victor reject the monster, but also the rest of the people from the society does not accept the monster’s existence. “When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” (Shelly, 13). In a world in which the monster is the only “unique” creation, he has no friend and anyone that understands him at all. None of the people he approaches like him and adopt him, and thus the monster’s life is quite miserable. Similarly, this monster can relate to some people with down syndrome and autism, who is different from the rest of the people in the society. They are often being ignored, neglected, and avoided. These patients are just similar to the monster, who need care and attention. The monster is so desolated by others, he starts to beg Victor to create a female companion for him. He says to Victor, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” (Shelly, 16). Tortured by loneliness, the monster attempts to persuade Victor to make him a mate. At the end, the monster is just another life in the Frankenstein’s world. He needs companionship as well, just like other people.
What cause the monster to act immorally and inhumane are the rejection from the society and loneliness in its life.

Similar to Victor, the monster lives in a revengeful life. He blames Victor for bringing him alive and suffers in loneliness and betrayal. Victor is the monster’s only connection to the world and the only one who understands him. Betrayal and abandonment from Victor have turned him to a true monster without moral and humanity. Later in the story, the rage exceeds the monster’s limit. He decides to take revenge on his creator. This is the time when immorality takes over the monster’s mentality. The monster states that I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream (Shelly, 16). The monster in the story is a round character. His mentality changes after each event. He first changes from a naïve and compassionate to revengeful and finally to sympathetic again. After Victor destroys the monster’s female companion, he says to Victor, “It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night” (shelly, 19). When the last hope for companionship is destroyed, the monster is angry and furious. He hopes Victor to understand his desperate situation, but once again, Victor betrays the monster. Therefore, he decides to revenge. Although in everyone’s opinion, the monster is violent and brutal, he sometimes is actually compassionate and

benevolent.
Loneliness and betrayal are the two reasons why the monster becomes inhuman in the story; however, he is not born with immorality. The monster’s life is miserable because he has nowhere to belong and no one to care for. He attempts to reconnect to the society, but no one wants to accept him. When the monster peeks and spies on a family, he understands the concept of love and caring. He states that the more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures (Shelly, 14). The monster reveals his desperate desire for human companionship and acceptance. It shows that he only looks like a monster, but deep inside his heart, the monster is indifferent from a normal person. Also, in the end of the story, after the monster finds out his creator Victor is dead, he said, “Oh, Frankenstein! generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?” (Shelly, 24). The monster, mourning over Victor’s dead body, asks for forgiveness for murdering all of the people who Victor cares about the most. His grief shows his humanity and remorse. This creates a drastic contrast with the monster earlier the story: a more humane character deep inside his heart compares to the revengeful character during the middle of the story.
In conclusion, the monster in the story is actually a reflection of Victor Frankenstein. The monster describe himself as having "good dispositions", but no matter what he does, his actions are always misinterpreted. Thus, he has no friends and no one understands him, which led to loneliness and hatred toward his creator. He starts to question his existence and reason why he needs to suffer through all these. All the hatred accumulates and exceed the limit of tolerance from the creature. As the result, he turns all the madness into revenge and violent. In the end, the monster is just a victim from the immoral scientific experiment.