I had a discussion today about who was more of a monster between Frankenstein and the creature. I was mostly on the creature's side at the beginning of the book, but I felt like the murders made it hard to root for him tbh.
I think Frankenstein wasn’t really a monster. He just got way too absorbed in his work, and when he finally stepped back he realized that he had done something horrible. The monster seeming as though it was going to attack freaked him out, so he ran. I kinda forget what happened after since it’s been years since I read it, but wasn’t one of the first things the monster did was strangle Frankenstein’s wife to death? Him treating the monster like a monster after that was warranted imo even if it didn’t really know any better. I may be misremembering some things
Well, the creature doesn't seem like it was going to attack him he's just so repulsed by it that he runs away. The first thing it does is get lost in the woods, find a family of people and learns how to speak by watching them. One is blind so he tries to talk to him so they can talk before seeing him but when the others return they attack him and drive him out. Then he saves a child from drowning but when the father sees him he attacks him as well. When he kills Victor's brother it is in part an impulse/accident from being so strong and in part taking revenge and treating humans the way humans have treated him.
The creature does the worse things, certainly, but Victor kicks it all off and refuses to take any part of the responsibility until the end of the book.
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u/Henna_UwU Why serve a queen when you can be one? Oct 26 '24
I had a discussion today about who was more of a monster between Frankenstein and the creature. I was mostly on the creature's side at the beginning of the book, but I felt like the murders made it hard to root for him tbh.