One might say that Victor made some pretty bad or skeptical decisions throughout the book. One of these decisions would of course be to create Frankenstein. This proved to be not only a very risky situation, but also a very dangerous situation. The "monster", Frankenstein, haunted Victor and his loved ones.
With that being said, one could say that Victor is crazy or stupid, however others might say that he, Victor, is a brave soul. They might say he is brave to take on such an unknown, daunting task that many people would not take on. Either way one might look at it, one might be correct in assuming or thinking this. What can be said for sure, is that this mysterious experiment caused much grief and pain for Victor and his family. For this monster affected not only him, but it affected those around him too, especially those very close to him.
On his wedding night, Victor just knew he would face the monster and they would fight to the death. However this did not happen as he thought it would. Just as Victor had told his wife to go to bed he heard, "a shrill and deadful scream," which deeply concerned him since he had not yet seen his monster (Shelley 135). This is what Victor had to say when he heard the scream, "As I heard, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins, and tingling in the extremities of my limbs." (Shelley 135). This shows his complete shock of what just happened, and it also shows just how detailed Mary Shelley writes. Clearly Victor thought he would be fighting the monster, but instead the monster took Victor's wife's life. Victor never saw it coming until it was too late. He was so adament about finding and destroying the monster, that he told Walton to continue his search for the monster after he was dead.
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