I think that the whole issue of the monster being the monster in Frankenstein, is Victor’s fault. Does anyone not feel the same way? Victor, as being the creator of his “being,” should have stayed and taught the monster the difference in right and wrong… “but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep” (Shelley 34). He was too much of a coward (for what he saw on the outward appearance) to stay and take the finishing responsibilities to his creation. The fiend had no means of security, and if he would have had a sense of belonging, he might have turned out better and not destroyed Victor’s whole family. The monster tried a few times to come into civilization and he wanted to be treated as a normal human. Even though the creature wanted to be apart of nature and all that was good, he was caste out to be alone; eh longed for an identity… “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing” (Shelley 81). I think, if given half a chance, the creation would not have had to been a menace to society and to Victor.
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