How Are Frankenstein and His Creature Both Monsters?
...fter the creature vanished from the laboratory where he was created, he ended up in Geneva killing William, Victor’s younger brother. The person charged of this murder was Justine Moritz a girl who used to live with the Frankenstein family for many years. After going on trial, she made a false confession and was sentenced to death. After the death of William and Justine, the monster greets Victor and speaks to him about the hardships of his life and asks him to make a female “monster”. Frankenstein decides to make this creature in order to stop more killing by this monster, but towards the end of the process changes his mind and drops the remains of the woman in the ocean. The next day, the local police found the murder of his good friend Henry Clerval. Later in the story the monster also kills Victor’s wife, Elizabeth, in order to get revenge on him for not creating him a wife. It was Victor's creation that killed his most loved friends and family. Victor did not face his own reality; although the creature did all the killing he is the real monster for allowing people to die over his irresponsibility. He had the power to prevent all the murders if he had only nurtured the creature at his “reanimation”. The creature that Frankenstein created was a monster. But the monstrous things that occurred were strictly because of Victor. He killed many of Victor’s friends and family because he gave him a horrible life of loneliness and solitude. He then killed the family members in order to get revenge on Victor for giving him a horrible life. But I think this could have been prevented by Victor at the beginning of the story. If Victor had embraced this creature instead of deserting it, the monster would be in a much happier state. Although the creature did kill three people, he did not have a bad heart. When traveling to find his “creator” a little girl fell in a river and he jump...