The nature of a villain can be complex or simplistic, and usually reveals more than the villain intends to. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein creates his own villain in the daemon and in himself. The villain in both the daemon and Frankenstein is the bodiless drive for revenge, this representative villain gives the illumination to another rationale of revenge; these vengeful villains also continue to enhance the theme of monstrosity. TRANSITION? The daemon’s villainous acts are not the only reasons he is a villain of this novel. His very being the creation of impure life, life created by man and not God, and the man who created him is no more pure in the end. The situation is a monstrous one to begin with and their actions
