Frankenstein is a monster.

Frankenstein is a monster. He really truly is. All he does throughout his entire life is hurt people. When he was little, whether it was with consent or not, he obviously had sex with his adopted sister. Or they at least had a more than familial relationship. I mean not only did that possibly hurt Elizabeth, but it hurt me as a reader. I do not want the first thing that I read in a book to be about childhood sort of incest. Then after Victor's mother died he just goes off to college, leaving his family mourning, although in all fairness he did stay for awhile to mourn with them. However, as soon as he got to college, he stopped trying to contact them. His family would send him letters, asking if he was okay, asking for him to mail them back, but he never did. He just completely blew off his family, who love him so much. He just hurt them without a second fault. Then once the creature was created, he just left him to fend for himself. Causing the monster to have to raise himself, teaching him that parents are useless. Victor just continuously hurt the monster, without ever even trying to befriend him. After Victor fell into his crazy sickness, he started to hurt Clerval, preventing him from his studies and making him listen to his crazy rambling, which in all honesty probably made Clerval lose it a little too. Then when the creature started killing people, that was all Victors fault, ultimately he hurt those people. When the creature burned down the cottagers' house out of jealousy and rage, it was really Victor burning down their house. He did not even know these people and yet he ruined their lives. He created the creature, he didn't teach him right or wrong, he just let him go, causing him to become a crazy murderous monster. Victor killed his own family, Victor burned the Cottagers' house down, Victor killed Clerval, Victor made himself sick and crazy. Personally, I think that this book was less about feminism, the unjust society, creator and creature, or any of that other stuff, and more about the fact that your actions cause serious chain reactions. If you start out being mean to other people, the world will be mean to you. Victor brought all of his family's plight onto them because of the way he mistreated everyone in his life. He had no respect for the world, so the world had no respect for him. It just wanted to make him suffer just as much as everyone else did.