The True Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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In Frankenstein, by Marry Shelley, Victor Frankenstein decides to advance science and create a person out of dead organs. He success and makes a creature, but runs because he is scared when the creature wakes up. The creature is forced to learn how to live. He starts his life in the woods where he meets a family whom he helps out by doing their chores. When he shows himself to them, they run in fear. He then decides to go find his creator and plots his revenge. Victor Frankenstein, as a creator, should provide care and love for his creature so that the creature does not plot revenge. First, Victor Frankenstein has a duty to provide care for the creature as he grows up. Just as a mother should not abandon her child, Victor should not abandon the creature he created. When the creature wakes up, Victor runs in fear. "I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster whom I had created... I escaped and rushed downstairs (Shelley, 48).” Victor regrets making his creation and avoids the …show more content…
If Victor didn’t abandon the creature and showed him love, the creature would not have killed those close to him. After he is shot at, the creature decides to find his creator and ruin his life. "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery (Shelley 146).” Victor Frankenstein has a moral and ethical duty to provide care for his creation. As a mother should not abandon her child, Frankenstein should not abandon his creation. Even if he is scared of his creation, he should show love so that he will know what love is. He will know that he is loved and he will not plot revenge against his
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