Victor Frankenstein Research Paper

Victor as a God in Frankenstein and how he forms the character of his creation.
The pop culture version of the novel Frankenstein depicts Victor Frankenstein’s need for science and creation, a need that results in him creating a monster. An ingenious and inventive scientist, Victor mastered everything he learned from his professors. Unfortunately, he ultimately created something he regrets and pays for until the day he dies. Victor Frankenstein takes his interest in science and creation to an unhealthy and extreme level, and plays God. In playing this God figure over his creation, he creates this being with no intentions of giving it love or happiness. He is selfish and creates it for himself, and he brings the unliving to life out of old used …show more content…
He’s not a monster at all. He has real human feelings. In the process of telling his creator about his journey since he was abandoned, he says “‘Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred” (Shelley 92-93). He is so interested in creating it, but once he is done he is disgusted. The monster goes through endless experiences of hate, and never receives love or acceptance. Victor made the creature exactly how he wanted to, and from the way he looked he was already an outcast. This doesn’t include how he was treated by human beings. Everyone treated the creature like garbage and shunned him, but then act surprised and horrified when his reaction is hate towards man. “He is rejected or abandoned by everyone he encounters and leads a life of despair and loneliness” (Erika G. Simon). In his story he is rejected by his creator, the cottage family, and almost every human interaction he has. It’s clear that there are different opinions within the frame story about whether the creation is a victim or really a monster, but all they seem to focus on is how he kills a child. The killings continue, but in …show more content…
Meaning, he truly didn’t care too much for him even before he was created. He depicts him as a horrible fiend that only causes harm, but his creator is the reason for all of that. “Looking beyond the outer appearance of the monster, it seems evident that what he began as was not a monster. Instead it was the extreme misconceptions of humans, resulting in extreme isolation of the creature, that caused him to become a monster” (Josh Traynelis, Emory University). Although the monster was created out of old used parts, he still possesses human characteristics. His outer making should not have determined the way he was treated. The constant feeling that no one loves you and everyone sees you as a “thing” would have a detrimental effect, especially when the hate comes from the a

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