Lack Of Responsibility In Frankenstein

In the book Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, secretly blames Victor throughout the course of the novel as the cause of his own suffering and pain. Victor ultimately is the one and only monster within the novel because of relationship that has built between him and the monster. Victor Frankenstein has created a monster that throughout the novel harms him because of his lack of responsibility and selfishness. The monster commits a number of different crimes which in return causes Victor to view him as the true monster however if Victor wasn’t so self- concerned with achieving his own goals, he would have seen the negative effects of the way he treated the monster earlier then he did. In Frankenstein there are many things that are the cause to Victor’s grief and suffering. One of them is him being irresponsible. For example, not only did Victor create one monster but he actually considers reconstructing yet another one, this time a
Justine gives a forced confession and is convicted and hung. Over come with remorse at the death of William and Justine, convinced of his own guilt, Victor seeks solitude.” This can show us how Victor is characterized as selfish because he himself has forced the confession upon Justine and in result of it she was killed for her nonexistent actions. He does this to once again protect himself and his family name. After the death of Justine and William it is then when Victor actually begins to feel guilty because he didn’t expect any of this to happen because he just wanted to protect himself. Which this again shows us how Victor can be characterized as a selfish human being because only until after they were killed is when he actually started feeling guilty about what he has done. He gets to the point where all he does is want to be by himself and starts secluding himself from the outside