Why Is Victor Frankenstein Wrong

Many know Mary Shelley's horror novel Frankenstein, a book about the monster Frankenstein. Although Hollywood and social media proceed to tell us that the monster is Frankenstein, scholars are quick to correct us, Victor Frankenstein is the creator the “monster”, but is everyone really wrong? Is the “monster” really the monster or is Victor Frankenstein really the monster? In the novel, there seems to be an ongoing theme of revenge and responsibility, but in the world, everyone perceives it as the creature doing all the wrong and taken responsibility for it, meanwhile in the book Victor Frankenstein is in the person who should be responsible for all the turmoil in the novel.

When Victor finally puts the creature together hoping and assuming

it was going to be beautiful, he was horrified to find that the creature was scary and ugly looking. Victor then being a responsible adult basically abandoned the creature, lots of writers and teachers have compared the creature to a newborn baby, and he basically is, he doesn’t know anything he was just “born”. Imagine abandoning a newborn baby, simply because it was ugly, well Victor did that which then caused all the emotional, physical and mental problems the creature had in his lifetime. Because of Victor the creature had to learn English by stalking another family, which then led to the family finding the creature fleeing and the creature burning down the house.

Although many argue that Victor was working on the creature, which was a lifelong dream of his, Victor manages to isolate himself from everyone he loves. In the first two years he makes the creature, Elizabeth his Fiance, Henry Clerval his brother and His father are all left to fend of themselves while Victor follows his dream of creating human life. Once the creature requests for Victor to make a partner for him, Victor disappears for another four years, which he then wastes by procrastinating and then eventually destroying the partner for his creature he so aimlessly stressed over for four years. This now caused the creature to kill all of his loved ones, one might think to initially blame the creature, but with Victor leaving them in danger there is nobody to blame but himself.

By the End of the novel Victor has destroyed everything he ever had, his lack of sympathy and concern he has to thank for that, he isolated himself for years from his family, he abandoned his creation and eventually came to his senses to stop the creature, only it was too late. His loved ones were killed, innocent people punished for crimes they didn’t commit and many lives put at risk.