Who Is The Monster In Frankenstein

Frankenstein In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley both Victor Frankenstein and his creature have monstrous characteristics. They both fit under the definition of monster. The creature is a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty. Victor is one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character. In society a monster could be a person who does awful things. They both do awful things all throughout the book. The creature murdered people, but Victor could have stopped him from doing that. The creature was mean, sad, and lonely because of the way Victor and other people treated him. Victor left his family and didn’t talk to them for two years to create a monster that he did not like. Victor and the creature
This is one of the reasons why he was so mean to people. Victor was mean to the creature because right after he created him he ran away from it. “Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (Shelley 36). If Victor would have listened to the creature he would have found out he just wanted someone to talk to. This could have stopped the creature from doing bad things. When the creature stayed next to the cabin and got to know the people that lived there he thought they would be different. They were not and this ruined how he felt about humans. “Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me” (Shelley 69). Victor made the creature feel awful and that is something a monster would