Who Is Victor Responsible In Frankenstein

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As people we often do not take responsibility for our creations, there are people that let others clean up that mess. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, had Victor taken responsibility for his creations, then those creations would turn out the way he had intended for them to turn out.
Victor is on a path that leads to making decisions and more often he makes these rash decisions that he doesn’t take responsibility for right off the bat. He goes and creates this monstrosity without thinking “hey, what could be the repercussions of bring life to the dead?” or the fact that he basically robs graves to make his life's work come together as one almost literally. “Is this not a free country? asked Frankenstein… Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks. replied an ill-looking man” (127). This man walks up to Victor asking for him to go and meet with a Mr. Kirwin about a dead man, Victor could be thinking of what he did to create the monster, or more accurately what the monster did. If Victor had shown some …show more content…

So he looks for someone to accept him for what he is, but in truth, he himself hasn’t quite accepted what he is, he goes after Victor in an attempt to make him create another one like him. “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede." The creature tries to make an acceptance, via another being like himself, when in reality all he needs to do is look deep down, take Victors journal and create one for himself, and he himself can learn to be accepted. Not that the men and women have to accept him, because for the most part monsters or people like the creation can only be accepted truely by little children and blind people, so therefore he has an obligation to himself to strive to work for a better

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