Victor's Response To Frankenstein

Response: Here Victor finishes his creation. He was able to bring it to life, but he was shocked at how ugly it was. Being so frightened he ran to the other room to try to get some sleep, but ends having nightmares about Elizabeth and his mother’s body. He wakes up to see the creature looking at him, and ran out of his apartment. He avoids the his apartment from then on, and runs into Henry. He goes back to the apartment but became ill for several months, with Henry taking care of him. When Victor got well, him and Henry went back to the university to meet the professors. He had also gotten a letter from Elizabeth, saying that she wants him to come back to Geneva and to get better from his illness. However he gets a letter from his father that
Victor’s brother William was murdered, and he immediately goes back to Geneva. He sees the creature nearby, and believes that the monster has killed the brother. But Justine, a family friend, has been convicted of murder. She is innocent, but admits to the crime. She ends up being executed, and Victor is filled with shame at the truth.

Passage: “But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation” (Shelley 95). Here Victor is lamenting at the results of William’s death, where Justine is convicted of murder. He knows that the creature killed William, and he is full of shame that will last until he dies. Even though it was the monster that killed William, it was Victor that caused his brother’s death.