Exploring Who is The Real Villain in Frankenstein

Introduction

Mary Shelley makes use of very dramatic and imagery-encumbered language to define the shattering of Victor's goals in her novel Frankenstein. Her strong diction transforms throughout the novel from a youth science prodigy to a guilt-ridden man trying to destroy his own creation and thus, defining who is the real villain in Frankenstein.

The Creation of Frankenstein's Villain

“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation for this one pursuit.” (pg.53) Frankenstein devoted months collecting his materials, to make his creature. He eventually starts to put all the pieces together. While creating this creature, Victor thought it'd be grateful to its creator. Victor thought it might owe their being and happiness to him. He hoped to renew existence where death had corrupted the body. He worked thru the summer season and Victor had still no longer written or visited home. He became operating on the belief of his masterpiece. His work had started out to make him sick; he ran a low-grade fever every night and became fearful to a painful degree. He had once loved his health after which he promised to get greater exercising and amusement when the advent was complete. The creature is complete. After all the hard work that he put into this being, it became a hideous creature. Victor had given up rest and his health to create such an unsightly being. Victor became full of horror and disgust. Unable to endure the creature he created he rushed out of the room. Dreams now emerge as a hell. 'It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather than ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.' (pg.90) As Frankenstein is talking to Elizabeth, he tells her the court system is made to only punish the innocent people. He is referring to when the monster had killed his brother and framed an innocent lady for the murder. Even though the lady was innocent she still pleaded as guilty because she didn’t have any evidence to prove that she wasn’t the one who killed William. This just goes to show how hard Frankenstein will try to hide his own wrongdoings. “Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain and sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.” At this point in the novel Frankenstein finally realized for himself that instead of amazing creation he meant to create he made a cold-hearted monster. The creature even says, “the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts”, foreshadowing that there are more deaths to come.

”When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.” (pg.96) As Frankenstein reflects on the past events, he learns the lesson, when you don’t take responsibility for your actions, they will take on a life of their own. “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in it highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.”(Pg.36) It's kind of ironic that Frankenstein tries so hard to create the monster but when the monster finally comes to life, he disowns it and doesn’t want anything to do with it.

Conclusion

Victor’s character is complicated. He grows from a young, innocent, hopeful boy right into a jaded, vindictive, vengeful man. By the end of the novel something curious happens. One could to mention that Victor turns into a self-sacrificing hero. He chooses to give his very own existence to keep mankind from what he believes to be evil inside the world. If stated evil isn’t simply evil a lot as loveably ugly, then he’s a inaccurate Christ figure. However, at the same time, he's a most wretched villain, bringing ache to the thing maximum pricey in his life, the manufactured from his own creativity.

Works Cited

1. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818.