Frankenstein Betrayal Quotes

Originally able to persuade his creator to create a companion, the monster follows Frankenstein to a remote island to see its wish realized; near completion, Frankenstein destroys his work to prevent a potential “race of demons” in addition to the monster’s one chance at beating loneliness. Victor’s negligence toward his creation throughout the novel arguably turned it wicked, leading to the monster’s strangling of William, the framing of Justine, the murder of Henry Clerval and Elizabeth, and the inadvertent death of Alphonse. While the monster has a lengthy death toll, its innocence and kindness are shown through its reaction to spring and the elements, willingness to learn, collection of wood and admiration for the cottagers, enjoyment of books such as Paradise Lost, and the friendly recollection of the family that rejected it despite the kindness it had shown to them. The bad acts interact with the good revealed the monster to be human, with the capacity to commit both extremes. The seriousness of its murderous rampage was dulled by its kindness and desperation for a companion. If Victor had accepted responsibility for his creation and tended to it, all horrid acts might have been avoided

"Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother" (tears came into his eyes as he spoke); "but is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society." (78)

In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the character Victor Frankenstein illustrates betrayal in the way he abandons his creation, with no hesitation he leaves him behind. With the feeling of abandonment ,the creature feels anger towards Victor which leads the “monster” to become a villain. Love and family are all the monster wants, but it is something that Victor could not give due to his own internal battles. As result, the monster begins to take Victor’s loved ones such as: little William and his wife Elizabeth. The monster kills

The monster already angry with the humans because of the way he was treated by the cottagers reacted when they saw him and his apparent “reward” when he saved that women from the river. He believed that if he took in a child or stole one forcefully he could teach and make the child understand that he is an ordinary being. Without realizing it the child was a Frankenstein and killed him “Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy-to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim (Shelley 62).” The second time the creature took his revenge was when he killed Victor’s best friend Henry Clerval right after Victor had broken his promise to create the monster a companion.

His friend from home comes to surprise Victor but he ends up consoling him for months — he does not want to confront the horrors he has single handedly created. He is such a disaster that he cannot write his family, only putting them under more stress. Finally, after months go by Victor begins to regain his mind and consciousness. He receives a letter from his father stating that his child brother was murdered. This, of all things, is what finally pushes Victor to return home to his family. Once Victor has returned to his family he realizes what exactly he had done. Victor’s creation had made its way to his family’s home and had taken the life of his brother. Not only is has the life of this young child been stripped away but Justine, a family friend, has been accused of killing the poor boy. Justine had never done anything but love and care for the child as if he were her own. He claims Justine’s innocence but he does not come clean— he cannot. If Victor were to mention that of a monster he would be institutionalized and Justine would still be found guilty. Justine is put to death, the second being stripped of life at the his monster. Victor feels “a weight of despair pressed on [his] heart,” (Shelley 111). These murders are the fault of Frankenstein and the weight he feels is overwhelming guilt. Without the construction of a new life, of a monster, these lives would not be lost… still he manages to fond great comfort in

After learning to read, the creature was able to figure out that Victor was his creator; he learned this from Frankenstein’s journal which was in a pocket of the jacket the creature had taken from Victor’s house. He then tracked Victor to Geneva where he let Victor know that he would get revenge since he never loved him. Victor’s life was made miserable by the creature, who proceeded to kill all of the people Victor loved. Victor’s final goal in life was to capture and kill his creature who had brought him so much pain.

Victor’s abandonment of his son is the main cause of his evil deeds since the Creature thus lacks a family unit and social skills that every young child needs. Frankenstein is the main contributor to the Creature’s sense of evil from the start because he is the one who continually refers to him as fiend, devil, or monster. The reader needs to consider the fact that the Creature is only a few months old at this point and similar to a young child is naive and gullible. So similar to that young child, the Creature believes everything that is said to him, so if Victor continually calls him a monster, eventually he will start to believe it and act upon that statement. Relating to this statement is the fact that Victor never considers the thoughts and feelings of the Creature in his creation process. The epigraph of Frankenstein from Milton’s work Paradise Lost perfectly describes the Creature’s feelings, stating

There were many events that made Victor feel anguished; William was died, Justin was executed, and others Victor's love. When Victor saw the monster, he felt the pain, bitter anguish, and full of resentment. Moreover his pain is pleasure of the monster. The demon’s life is full of suffering. Then, the monster began to destroy Victor's happiness. According to the monster, he said that Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy – to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim. (p.109) this text reflected, after the monster killed William, revenge is more violent. Victor will be doubly painful and there were many people have to die. Furthermore, he also augmented I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, I too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him. (p.110) This text to demonstrate that when the monster killed the member of family Frankenstein, he felt satisfied and full of contentment. It did not feel that this is not correct because the monster stuck on revenge. The monster hoped that the death of William would create a thousand sufferings to Victor. The demon did not want Victor to be happy in spite of it was left alone. He wanted to destroy the happiness of the creator. He became a devil because of

This lust for accomplishment leads to the ones he loves to perish. We see at the begging the distancing of his family is caused by his lust, but this lust lead to him wanting to create something to play God, to be a scientist who does the impossible. This then leads to him making a monster which he is horrified by and wants nothing to do with, leading the monster to develop the longing for love and acceptance. The monster and the consequences of the creation of the monster comes with his desires to be wanted and being neglected, this neglect then leads him to have a cold heart once he realizes his very creator didn’t want him. He seeks revenge on the ones Frankenstein loved and this tears Frankenstein apart because he knows he is ultimately responsible “But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom...” (96)., Victor states “Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a

Because victor abandoned his creation and left it to run wild, the monster was left to find food, clothes, shelter, and educate himself, the monster eventually discovers his creator’s true feelings towards him and seeks out revenge against him, starting Frankenstein’s lifetime of punishment (Mia, 2016). Victor’s sin is not against God but against nature. His sin is that of Hubris, an attempt to become master over the powers of nature through the creation of an unnatural man. His corresponding punishment is to become a slave to the wicked actions of his monster. He is forced to watch his loved ones be murdered one by one, while he remains powerless (Mia, 2016). In the final chapter of Frankenstein, the creature does express remorse for his terrible acts, as they caused the death of his creator, surely he weeps over the body of victor Frankenstein whom he has loved from the second he opened his eyes (Westwood,

In the book Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein was a scientist who made a scientific discovery that resulted to his own destruction. He ended up creating a monster to which he failed to give love and support it expected. The monster was lonely and sad which led him to seek revenge from Victor and eventually be the reason of his death. The revenge by the monster was a just punishment for Victor’s actions because he attempted to give life to the dead which was completely against the law of nature and the outcome of anything against God’s will would ultimately be the nemesis of the one who created it.

Frankenstein spent such a large part of his life fixated on killing this monster. He watched everything around him fade away. Most of his family died, and Victor was only focused on finding the monster. In the end, his long searching killed him. It all goes back to because of his self guided education; he was unprepared for the unintended results of his success. If he would of took responsibility for what he had done, and thought of the possible outcomes. Victor may have never been in this situation in the first place. Once again, he payed for it by the killings of those he loved, and

The monster believed that Victor would accept him, but after he realized that not only did Victor not want to assume his position in the monster’s life, but society also rejected him, it became a transitory thought, and instead became replaced with his bloodthirst towards Victor and his loved ones, which he knew would hurt way worse than just killing him; making him lonely like himself. Both Victor and the monster partook in horrid acts, in which held horrendous actions; the main one being Victor creating the monster in the first place which in result caused the both of them heartbreak, loneliness, and pain. If Victor wouldn’t have created the monster, then his life would not be filled with so much grief and emptiness; Victor is the true monster, although they are both the primal protagonists as much as they are the antagonists because of the display of the emotions they both portray as lamenting humans/monsters, and the power they give to nature in order to destroy one another. Victor used nature to his advantage, although it was wrong; Victor used nature to create and destroy the monster; he used the

The monster does this by killing all the possible sources that gives Victor happiness. In the end of the novel it contradicts the beginning where Frankenstein portrays himself from a very happy and stable family. The reality brought out is that they were a wealthy family and they were not necessarily happy. Victor’s mother dies when she gets scarlet fever and then the brother William follows when he is murdered and lastly the father also dies. In real sense, with all the deaths it is very hard for any family to keep their happiness. The monster further tortures Victor's feelings when the monster kills

He is overwhelmed with these emotions and the only way to release the anger is to bring death to the loved ones of Frankenstein. The monster is deprived of any sort of love from the very beginning of his life; thus, he will make it his goal to replicate this feeling for Victor. The beast does succeed in bringing terror into the life of Victor with the murders of William, Justine, Henry, and Elizabeth. This active desire to harm your creator is something unique about the relationship between the creator and created in Frankenstein.