Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Stop Whining Victor and take responsibility!

In my honest opinion, Victor and the Wretch are both to blame. Victor had no intentions on owning up to his "mistake" and taking care of him. On the other hand, the wretch should not have taken revenge on Victor at the expense of innocent people. However, with this all in mind, the wretch is still justified in his feelings towards Victor 100%. Victor should have been there for the wretch to begin with, if he had, then most likely this book would be a lot less depressing.
At the beginning of the story, I sympathized for Victor when he spoke about how he longed for a compainion. However, all of my sympathy left once he created the wreetch and abandoned him to die. I began to hate him once he began searching for pity with simple lines like "the tortures of the accused did not equal mine." He was going insane and he was looking justification. How do I know he's going insane, you ask? Well here's a quote that clearly indicates his descent into insanity: "I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms" ...I think that's indication enough. It's obvious that his take of the story will be biased, but I don't pity him. He should have taken care of the wretch, ugly or not.
The wretch has every right to feel betrayed and angry towards Victor. It's like a child who was brought into this world and then immediately rejected by its parents. It's not fair to the child just like it isn't fair to the wretch. He has every right to want to take revenge on Victor though I don't support the ways in which he did it. in the end he only wanted a companion. "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 imagine." He's not a bad person at heart, he wanted to be happpy just like any normal human being, but the selfish, cowardly acts of Victor made him into an ugly, evil giant who's filled with hatred.

Like the great Justin Beiber once said: He just needs somebody to love.

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