Who Is Responsible In Frankenstein

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Victor Frankenstein does not deserve the reader’s sympathy and deserves to feel the burden of guilt for being irresponsible by creating and abandoning the creature. After creating the creature, Frankenstein says, “ I found it astonishing a power placed within my hands[…]” (Shelley 64). After discovering how to to create life, Frankenstein becomes determines to create life. He is aware of the power of creating life, but is irresponsible with that power by creating the creature and abandoning it after being appalled by his creation. Instead of correcting his mistakes of creating the creature by either destroying it or teaching it how to be civil, Frankenstein let’s his creature loose into the world only to destroy his and the lives of others.