Victor Frankenstein: Victim or Villain?

Victor Frankenstein: Victim or Villain?

Sidney Perreault

Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School

Victor Frankenstein: Victim or Villain?

The novel “Frankenstein” gives a lot of scenarios that could portray a person to think differently on who the real victim is in the story.  Many may think that Victor, the creature of the monster is the victim because he loses all that he owns.  Others may think that the monster is the victim, because victor betrays and abandons him leaving him to be lost in a world that wasn’t ready for him.  In my thoughts it is Victor that is the victim, but not victim to the monster but to himself.  Victor play roulette with his work and letting it get too close to his outer life in society.  He lets himself become too attach to his work causing him to under think his real life choices.  There for because of these un-thought through choices they come back around to hit him in the rear.

Part of what makes Victor Frankenstein his own victim is that he would become too obsessed with his work, let it control his life.  Victor abandons his family and father in there time of need letting his work get the best of him.  Because of this Victor loses his way taking his experiments to levels of unorthodox that the world was not yet ready for.  Partly why the university in the story discontinued there support and didn’t want him introducing his studies and ethics to the school and public.  He let his work basically drive him mad.  It was that insanity that had fueled his obsession to dive deeper and darker into the place no one dared venture.

Victor had gone down a dark path and with that path came clouded decisions.  After letting his work and studies cloud his mind he delve into his work even deeper.  Because of this he went to extent that wouldn’t be accepted by the public.  After the university discontinued their support in Victor’s studies he went to places un-thought of for his supplies and specimens.  He would go to graves other the recently desist to dig up their corps for the body parts he would need for his deranged experiments.  His devotion to his experiment became too attach and when his mind found clarity, too much damage too had been done.