Is Frankenstein A Hero Or A Villain Essay

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Is the monster in Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, a malicious killer villain or an innocent victim caught up in bad situations? Was he able to comprehend his actions and to know wrong versus right? Is he accountable for his actions? Victor Frankenstein’s monster was not a villain but a victim brought into the world only to be abandoned without any guidance to help him. The monster never asked to be created nor did he want to truly be alive. Victor Frankenstein created him without knowing if the monster would have consented to being made. The monster was pieced together by body parts of deceased people who couldn’t consent to the usage of their limbs or organs. The pieces were not completely similar or belonging to a single person, therefore …show more content…
He learns basic sympathy when he realizes the cottage people were in poverty as show on page 118, he starts to collect and gather his food from other places. When the monster murders Victor’s brother I believe he becomes scared and starts to realize the consequences, and does just as Victor taught him to run and avoid blame. Then when the monster finally kills Victor, he truly and deeply feels guilty and understands his actions. “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless: I have strangled the innocent as they sleep and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing,” (Shelley 240). In that quote he describes his understanding of his actions. He then tells the now deceased Victor, that is he were to even have a single ounce of revenge for the monster that the monster himself deserved. The monster knew he must die soon after. This creature had been so narrow minded and taught to be hateful that he was never really given a chance to lead a life of anything but hatred and vengeance.

Without the guidance of Victor the monster was left to try and understand good versus evil by himself, leading to him making wrong choices. It is obvious he didn’t understand the full consequences of death nor did he have the experience to understand the feeling of losing someone. The monster that Victor Frankenstein created was a victim who was not given a single opportunity to know anything but
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