Is Victor Frankenstein A Hero

Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, readers are introduced to many different types of heroes. In the beginning, the monster is introduced as one of the main heroes in Shelley’s Novel, who is considered a “Byronic” hero due to his arrogant personality and exile status. The monster wants to help people, but he is shunned by the rest of society, so he never gets the chance to prove himself worthy of being a hero. We also can describe Elizabeth as a kind of “Everyman” hero due to her loving and caring personality when her fiancé is away and her “mother” was dying of an illness that was caused by Elizabeth’s scarlet fever. Elizabeth took care of everyone and their feelings. Since we know there are heroes in the story, who is the villain?
Frankenstein was a scientist who decided to go against the laws of nature and create life out of death as a science project. The use of the words ‘creator’ and ‘creature’ implies that Frankenstein wanted to act as a God, which he wasn’t.” Mary Shelley displayed the image of God when writing the story. She influenced the readers to think that Victor is the overall villain in Frankenstein, by showing them that you cannot just go and create or destroy life like you are God. That’s what Perry is saying, he is saying that Victor tried to create life out of death. He also took all the dismembered body parts and sort of threw them together without thinking about the end result and how that creation would feel. Victor created the monster without himself having a stable father figure which in the end lead his creation to not have a father figure. The monster was created just because it was possible, not because there was a good or scientific reasoning behind it. When creating the monster, Victor was thinking about how astonishing it would be to prove to his father that he could do something that his father didn’t think he would be able to do. The monster didn’t want to be created and when he was, he wanted to have a family and a home. While the monster looked at the world around him he thought he would get the courage to ask Victor for a companion. Victor couldn’t bring himself to make another creature because now he has realized the mistake he made in the first place and he doesn’t want to make another