The Monster is more victim then villain How far and in what ways do you agree with this

view of Mary Shellys presentation of the monster in Frankenstein?

On the one hand, the monster is more victim than villain because he is innocent and nave to the world around him; I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Jean-Jacques Rosseau, a German Philosopher stated that a child was born naked, but with an inclination of goodness. In other terms, the monster is born in a natural innocent state with the right mind to be good to others. However Frankensteins brutal rejection leads to him being abandoned and losing his inclination of goodness. The monster is said to have had a grin wrinkl[ing] his cheeks like an animal would when first seeing their mother. The Monster is a victim in the sense he is unbelievably ugly - With yellow skin, lustrous black and flowing hair, watery eyes, dun white sockets, and straight black lips the poor wretched beast is not a present sight. Victor, after providing the spark of life to his creation, He displays paternal negligence and a lack of responsible creativity. At the time, there was ice and cold all over Switzerland, and the poor Creature would have died had he not been built with his superhuman capabilities which reflect upon Victors creative power. All of this is the reflection of Victor that the Monster is forced to carry, a reflection of Victors disability to help himself or others around him. Frankenstein naps on a Golden Bed, or will you quickly distribute fire? The monster also endured turmoil when he was abandoned into the wilderness. He suffered pain when he put his hand in fire, thinking it was a source of good when light was emitted from it. Furthermore, he was chased away by the villages for they were frightened of him. The monster is the victim here as he feels rejected and alone. This mirrors William Godwins statement in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice that all men that are good are corrupted by the bad deeds of others. Thus, Frankenstein rejected and no monster could support the horror of [the monsters] countenance despite him originally wanting to be a mummy. Indeed, he feels he is a victim when is forbidden by Frankenstein to have a female mate made for him despite him only having good intentions of abandoning human society and living forever hidden. He argues that their lives will be happy free from the misery I now feel and even Frankenstein feels he is right as he feels that did I not as his maker, owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow. Frankenstein accepts he has been pitiless as [he] have been towards [the monster].

Just as Prometheus was sincerely punished by Zeus for giving the sacred fire to the humans, Frankenstein is to be severely punished by his creation for giving the sacred element of life to the dead. Slowly, every single person that Victor loved and had affection for, had died (save for his one last brother). The tiresome forests, dangerous mountains, and frozen seas that Frankenstein endured in his mission to kill his creation were all inevitable emblems for him, as these were all places the Creature had to actually live in on a daily basis. Lacking the superhuman capabilities, Victor dies aboard a ship in the Antarctic North, ending his Creatures rage towards Victors treachery. The Monsters tragedy, which ultimately led to Frankensteins tragedy, was all due a moral error; the lack of love. On the other hand, the monster is the villain as his anger reflects Frankensteins and the villagers rejection. Enraged at how the whole of
humanity has treated him, the Monster sets fire to the cottage and determines to seek his revenge on Frankenstein and heads for Geneva. Shortly after he arrives their, he comes across a young boy and tries to befriend him. The boy, who is Frankenstein's brother William, shrieks that he will send his father, Frankenstein, after him. Upon learning that the boy is a Frankenstein, the Monster strangles him to death.. The Monster moves on and comes across a young woman, who is asleep in a barn. On an evil impulse, the Monster places the locket in her pocket. It is only after the police arrest her for William's murder that the Monster realizes that she is Justine Moritz, the Frankensteins' servant. Justine is hanged for murder despite her innocence. Francis Bacon, a sixteenth century philosopher, wrote that revenge is a wild kind of juctice. The justifictation of an eye for an eye is incorrect unless one is proven guilty on more than one occasion. The Monster swears to Frankenstein out of shear revenge and anger that he will be with him on his wedding night. The Monster then kills, in fairly rapid succession, murder's both Henry Clerval, Frankenstein's best friend, and Elizabeth, his new bride. He feels a huge sense of remorse after committing

genocide says crime has degraded [him] beneath the meanest evil and he calls himself the fallen angel becom[ing] a malignant devil. The Monster is more victim than villain in a sense he was corrupted with anger and hatred, but he is not the only victim in the novel. Everyone of Victors family dies all innocent. If Frankenstein chose not to defy god and become the Modern Prometheus, this tragic novel wouldnt have been so.