The Role Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mahatma Gandhi, the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement once said, ““An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature acts wickedly and murders people, but he is not inherently evil or malicious. All was the game of revenge of what he had to go through.

After being rejected by his creator, Victor Frankenstein and the society, the monster seek revenge from his master for making and leaving him in this cruel world. In anger, the creature murdered William, Victor’s brother in Geneva after William accidently said to the monster that his father is Victor. "Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy--to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim." Murdering William was his first violent act in anger of rejection. It was the start of a new journey, the journey of revenge” from his creator.

The monster in anger kills another important person in Victor’s life to take revenge for not creating his mate who could love and accept him in his lonely life. The monster
After telling the whole story to R. Walton, victor dies. The creature comes to him, weeps, mourns and blames himself for what he did. “that is also my victim… in his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to be close! Oh Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I who irretrievably destroys thee by destroying all thou loved.” The monster weeping is the symbol what he did, he knew it was wrong but did it just in anger of why everyone is rejecting him.

In the whole novel, the creature behaved viciously but in general he was not genetically evil or bad. The monster begins as an innocent, but loses it due to the exposure to human society. Nonetheless, he remains more human than his creator who has sacrificed himself for