Should Victor Blame For The Trial In Frankenstein

Because Victor created the creature, therefore by default he is the parent of the Creature and should take responsibility.

If I were to judge who was guilty for the crimes of William, Justine, Henry, and Elizabeth, I would blame Frankenstein. Frankenstein must deal with the consequences of his creations actions. The monster's actions are brutal, but are all in retaliation for being abandoned by his creator. In chapter seven, William met the monster in the woods.

The creature was left on its own and once free, and without guidance, it wreaked havoc. Since he did not care for the creature, it ended up leaving his lab and suffering the cruelty of mankind. If Victor had taken responsibility for the creature, it would not have turned evil. Since Victor does not take his responsibility as a creator seriously, he ultimately causes the death of his entire family; something else for which he does not take responsibility. In chapters 8, 16, 21, and 23, the creature kills five people.

I told him If he consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again: I will go to the vast wilds of South America. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. My companion will be of the same nature as myself, and will be content with the same fare. ← quote from book Lawyer 2: So you’re saying that if Victor had created a second mate for you, it would’ve stopped all this chaos from arising? Victor could have prevented the deaths of Elizabeth and Henry?

In the world, many actions people take whether they intended it to impact others negatively or not cause some to become enraged and seek revenge on others. Many things go wrong and many people die close to Victor and most was caused by the creature acting in revenge against his creator. Almost every time something goes wrong with the creature, it is due to society. Victor is to blame. Victor's capricious actions or lack of cause the creature to want and act on revenge towards his creator.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I, Ethan Ngo, lawyer of the creature, am here representing and defending the creature on the trial of murder, and prosecuting the general public. As you all may know, this creature was the creation of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. If you have not heard of the story, let me give you a short backstory of the events that occurred. It all began on, and I quote, “on a dreary night of November that [Frankenstein] beheld the accomplishments of [his] toils” (Shelley 58). At this point, Victor Frankenstein described the creature as a “catastrophe” and a “wretch” and was so distraught as to leave the being to live all by itself with no knowledge of anything (Shelley 58).

“Did I request thee, maker, from my clay to mold me man. ”(John Milton, Paradise Lost). It is no secret that humans feel a certain duty to the ones they love and care about. For Victor Frankenstein, the people he cares most about are his brothers, his father, and his wife, Elizabeth.

Victor's conscience is heavy with guilt as he struggles to accept the fact that his reckless pursuit of knowledge has caused indescribable suffering in the world. Additionally, Victor is troubled by the thought that he is solely responsible for the creature's existence and the harm that it causes to humanity. His distress is exacerbated by his failure to anticipate the severe implications of his activities, as he ruefully admits, "It was to be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings..." (Shelley 87). Victor's regret arises not just from the loss of his loved ones, but also from the realization that his conceit and negligence caused their demise.

The classic monster story, Frankenstein, was written in about 1818 and has been told and read for many generations and is worldly recognized. This is all thanks to the author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was just nineteen when she started on, Frankenstein, she lived in a very different time period than our own, and her story gives us a glimpse of just what kind of life she lived. Her novel, Frankenstein, has been interpreted in many different ways and have inspired several movies and also ideas. One major idea is her meaning on responsibility. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley uses her epic novel of, Frankenstein, as a prime example of the drastic consequences of not taking responsibility for ones actions.

Just as when a child is born and its parents assume ultimate responsibility, the same goes for a man’s creation. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates life in the form of a monster. He has no intention to create evil but ultimately does. At first the monster does not come to life but later that night Victor awakes to find it in his room, awake and confused. His fear of the monster drives him away in hope that he will never see it again. Victor had a responsibility to his creation. He brought it to life and decided to abandon it. By leaving his creation he ultimately causes the demise and death of everything he loves. The monstar was his responsibility from the start and he chose to ignore it. The creator will always have responsibility

However, the results of the creation of the Creature are egregious, as the creature begins to murder people, specifically Victor’s loved ones, including his brother William upon realizing that William is related to Victor. Victor here is partially at fault in his brother’s death, as he abandoned the Creature, leaving it to terrorize the people. Though he is overwhelmingly contrite for their deaths, he neglects to admit who the true culprit is in William’s murder and allows Justine Moritz to take the blame, an example of his morally ambiguous actions. His inconsiderate actions cost Justine her life, though he feels horrible for it. Even then, he argues that the action he regrets the most—the creation of the monster—was the work of destiny, which was “too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.” (Shelley 23) Again, Victor places blame on fate to justify his obsession with ambition that led him to create the thing he regrets the most. His failure to recognize his role in William’s, Justine’s, etc. deaths while concurrently feeling remorseful for them solidifies his status as a morally

He always puts the blame on his passions or his wishes, never himself. He even blames his own father. According to Victor, his actions are the the fault of the “spirit of good” or chance or knowledge. When he does finally acknowledge that the creation of the creature and the way the creature grew up is his fault, he claims he’s only “not altogether free from blame”. He does not fully take the blame, and then he goes on to basically say that everybody makes mistakes, so it’s okay that he reanimated and abandoned a human who had already been dead. He calls his creation a catastrophe, a wretch, a miserable monster, a filthy demon, a devil, a depraved wretch. What Victor does not acknowledge is that he was the one who made the creature this way. When it comes to describing Victor, he is seen as “noble and godlike in ruin”. He is not seen as a monster who did irreparable damage to another human being, but as a fallen god. What’s more is that Victor does not hesitate to blame himself for the deaths of William, Henry, Elizabeth, and even Justine. Though he is, in a way, responsible for their deaths, it’s by extension. He won’t take the blame for what he’s truly responsible for-creating and abandoning this creature with nothing but fear, confusion, and

Victor’s conscience holds the painful achievement of giving life to a beast capable of murder due to selfishness. The first victim that dies at the hands of the creature is William. Victor’s selfishness is reflected when his creation frames Justine for the murder. Victor states, “Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims of my unhallowed art” (Shelley 60). Victor does take responsibility and admits that he is to blame, but he does not express this to others, only to himself. Nor does Victor fess up to the real cause of his monster’s bloodlust and turn himself in like a selfless individual would. Although his selfishness affects the lives of others, the ones near and dear to him receive much affliction too.

He believed that his Creature murdered his brother and framed Justine, the Frankenstein’s maid, in order to achieve vengeance for Victor abandoning him, but according to Levine, Victor is the cause for this evil, “...evil is a consequence of maltreatment or injustice,” (Levine 31). Victor’s internal flaws and shortcomings prevent him from revealing the truth about his Creation and therefore he is unable to disclose details of Williams death to save Justine. Victor cowers and stands by as the town unjustly convicts and “executes” Justine, (Shelley 117). The cowardly act committed by Victor shows that he does not possess a strong enough moral compass to do the justified act.

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein is about a man who had a strong urge to finish a scientific project and did not accept his consequences for his own mistakes. Mary Shelley’s work consists of Gothic elements and have great emotion that go along with them. Mary Shelley’s childhood may have affected her writing, she had a tough life growing up and her book shows this. Throughout the novel there are many Gothic elements that all contribute to the events in the book. Victor neglecting his own responsibility and disrupting the natural order of things ultimately leads to the death of the two major characters in the end of the novel.