Frankenstein Monster Analysis

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In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Victor Frankenstein has an idea to make human life out of dead body parts that he collects. Once the monster comes to life, Victor is disgusted and flees from his home, leaving the monster behind. The monster is perceived as evil who’s only intention is to kill anything associated with Victor Frankenstein. Yet, throughout the novel, the monster is only a victim of circumstance, and the real villain is Victor—his creator.
Victor has complete apathy towards the lives of humans. Victor does not think about the consequences or actions that would come when trying to make something come alive, from dead body parts. Victor says, “Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument …show more content…
Victor has an obsession with learning about and creating ways to defeat death. “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.” Victor decides to take dead body parts and combine them all together to make the dead come to life. Victor never thought about the riskes that would come when trying to make the dead come to life. he explains, “… often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion” (Shelly). Yet, victor still carried on with creating life even as he was repulsed by it. And fails to see that what he is doing is morally wrong. Only God should create life but he refuses to give up …show more content…
I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime” (Shelly 138). Victors abandonment has caused the monster to do wretched actions on loved ones of Victor, and this is when Victor realizes that he has created this being. Victor then proclaims to the monster that if he were to stop killing his loved ones he would make a companion for him. But, Victor thinks about it and says, “yet, one of my first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror” (Shelly 141). Victor doesn’t want to be held responsible for yet another human being that when something happens, it falls back on him. Victors’ selfishness shows through the words and actions he thinks upon himself and on the
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