The True Villain in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The True Villain in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelly is best known for her chilling Gothic horror tale

"Frankenstein". The story is world famous and is still relevant today.

There are two main characters in the novel. There's the young

ambitious student playing god which is Victor Frankenstein who's

finding the secret of giving life and there's the gentle hearted,

gruesome monster who must hide from society because of his appearance,

but who is the true villain and which character do we have the most

sympathy for?

Victor Frankenstein may possibly be seen as a hero for many reasons

also most important of all why do we feel sympathy towards him. Victor

Frankenstein could be seen as a hero for wanting to create life. One

of the reasons why Victor Frankenstein wanted to create life was

because he was devastated by his mother's death. We know this because

he says "It was long the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw

every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can

departed forever". The reader has sympathy towards Frankenstein as he

is in shock and grieving over his mother's death and this could be one

reason why he wanted to create life so that families never have to see

their loved ones go. Frankenstein had good intentions by creating life

to stop death also to make the world a better place as well as he

wanted to renew life and we know this because he say's "I thought if I

could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in a process

renew life". Frankenstein worked out what science could prove and that

was to renew life by doing this it means he could be seen as a hero

but to make his ambit...

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across to the society was that people should take responsibility and

should accept things ugly, new and scary.

Of the two main characters I think the true monster or villain was

neither of them because they both made their mistakes and they both

paid off for their mistakes in some way. They both had good and bad

points about them selves. I think Frankenstein was grieving and

shocked over his mother's death and that's how his obsession started

and that's when he took the wrong path. I think the monster took the

wrong path when he got too tired of the society being cruel and abuse

towards him and when all along he tried to be a good person. I have

come to the final conclusion that neither of them was to blame as they

both had their faults. So really I think in Frankenstein there is no

true villain.

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