Frankenstein is about this young man named Victor Frankenstein who is obsessed with bringing back the dead to life and so studies for many years and he try’s to create this monster from other body parts and he successfully creates this monster which end’s up being a disaster for Victor Frankenstein. In the book there are a couple of main characters, Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton, The Monster. The monster is Frankenstein’s creation who is created from old body parts and chemicals. He ends up being really tall and really strong but he is as smart as a newborn child. Abandoned by his creator, he tries to integrate himself into society only to be shunned. And so he seeks his revenge on Victor Frankenstein by killing his brother, best friend and his wife and two innocent people in the process. Walton captains a ship heading towards the North Pole but gets stuck in some ice and he has to wait for it to thaw out. While he is waiting they see something in the distance, its Frankenstein looking for the monster and they pick him up and Frankenstein begins to tell his story. Like Frankenstein, Walton is a explorer chasing after the unpossessed knowledge. And so who is really the monster in Frankenstein?

Victor Frankenstein could actually be the real monster in the book. Victor creates this monster that ends up killing his brother, best friend, and his wife and two innocent people. He tells know about what he created and who is killing all the people he cares about. He goes from an innocent young man interested in science into a disillusioned, guilt-ridden man determined to kill the monster. “I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer. Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, “My dearest friend, you must calm yourself. These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are. There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble. Dear Victor, banish these dark passions. Remember the friends around you, who centre all their hopes in you. Have we lost the power of rendering you happy? Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing–what can disturb our peace?” (ch9) Victor’s guilt about the death’s of William and Justine causes him to seek revenge on the monster. This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend–“I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT!” Such was my sentence, and on that night would the daemon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end. If he were vanquished, I should be a free man. Alas! What freedom? Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free. Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.” (ch22) Victor doesn’t want to pull Elizabeth into his destructive interactions with the monster, but he has a obsession that will not give him peace.

But the monster could actually be the monster in the book. The monster gets deserted by his creator, Frankenstein, who is thrown into the real world and is hated real quickly be everyone because he is to ugly and that he looks like a monster. So the monster gets enraged that no one likes him, so he sets out to get revenge on Frankenstein for doing this to him. He ends up killing Frankenstein’s brother, best friend, and eventually his wife. But he does it in revenge for Frankenstein creating him.  “As I fixed my eyes on the child, I saw something glittering on his breast. I took it; it was a portrait of a most lovely woman. In spite of my malignity, it softened and attracted me. For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.” (ch16) The monster is upset that normal people will not treat him with kindness and respect because he is not attractive. “At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.” (ch15) This was the monster finally attempt to find a place in society but it is ruined when the blind man’s family come home and force’s him out. And so the monster has had his breaking point so that’s when he declares that he will get revenge on Frankenstein.

So technically the monster is the real monster in the book Frankenstein, but in my opinion Victor Frankenstein is the real monster. Victor creates this monster because he wants to do something that has never been done in human history and that is bring someone back from the dead. With that being said he creates the monster, and it ends up being a disaster . The monster ends up killing Frankenstein’s family and friend, and two innocent people in the process of getting revenge. The monster is tortured by the fact that he can’t live a simple normal life. He goes to the farm house trying to make friends with the blind man and he does but then he’s family comes in and runs him out of the house. So if Frankenstein never created him he would have never been tortured by the fact that he can’t live a normal life.