Victor's Paradoxical Decision In Frankenstein

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Victor’s paradoxical decision to destroy the female creature is a display of how there is no moral decision in this circumstance, and how knowledge can create misery. One of the creature’s reasons for having Victor create the female is that he is malicious because he is miserable, and that if Victor does not make this female for him, Victor will feel the creature’s wrath, yet, one of Victor’s reasons for not creating the female is that creating the first creature resulted in a loss of morality and misery for Victor. Regardless of the female’s creation, Victor will be miserable, however one would be self inflicted while the other is external and reliant on the suffering of others. The paradox of this situation in which there is no solution shows
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