Gimme a W!

As you can all clearly see, the word "wretch" starts with a W. So does the word Winner. As does Winnipeg, Canada. The point is - I am 2000% TeamWretch. Not Team Edward, or Team Bella... Team Wretch. I am now going to explain why in as succinct a manner as I possibly can because my name does not happen to be Jesse Reed Young. Leggo.

So to recapitulate everything that the wretch did, of course we have to talk about all the murders. The wretch seemed to make it his mission to kill every person that Victor held near and dear, including, but no limited to, Elizabeth and Clerval for example. Although he would never kill Victor, he wanted to make him as miserable, and wretched as he was. Undoubtedly he succeeded in doing so, and filled Victor's life with despair, seeing as he was now completely alone.

Ok - the question is, whose fault is it that all those murders occurred? Obviously the blame automatically goes to the wretch (for whom I wish I had a name, because saying "the wretch" is getting annoying) since he's the one who committed the crimes. Right. Ok. BUT. If we take a deeper look at all of this, (and use examples from the text to corroborate our argument ;] ) we can see that in fact, it was VICTOR'S fault that all of these things occurred. Everything that happened stems from the idea that no one FORCED Victor to create the wretch. He did it out of his own passion and curiosity, and I will always stand by the idea that you must (political views coming soon) care for and protect anything you create. It was Victor's choice to create the wretch, and had he acted like a father figure to the monster, it would not have been so violent. The wretch says himself, on page 222, "My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change, without torture such as you cannot even imagine." He himself admits that when he was first created, he had a caring, sympathetic nature. But when his attempts to be kind were shunned by society, undoubtedly due to the way he looked, he became angry and wretched.

Because Victor was never there for him, to provide him with a companion, the wretch wasn't able to discern what the right thing to do was in most situations, and his anger caused him to react violently. He says on page 172, "Shall each man find a wife for his bosom, and each best have his mate, and I be alone?" All he's ever wanted was companionship, something he's never had. All his life, beginning with his initial creation when "one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me" (59), he's been scorned for trying to show affection. So rather than continue to get his feelings hurt, he took the low road and started strangling everybody & their mother. (Figure of speech)

To bring this brief post to an end, the murders all happened as a result of el wretch-o's unrequited feelings of affection. Had Victor not attempted to spurn his advances, he would have been taught right from wrong, and he wouldn't have had such bottled up feelings that exploded from him uncontrollably.

So i really tried to be terse. Whatever. Intro...


Deuces.