Frankenstein: the True Monster

One who has only seen the Hollywood version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would assume that in the course of the book the true monster is Dr. Frankenstein himself. But upon analysis of the text it becomes clear that it is in fact the Monster who is the greater of the two evils. Although created by the doctor, his own hatred and consciousness yield an evil larger than even the doctor could have predicted. The monster …

…step in creating the Frankenstein monster was taken by Dr. Frankenstein. After the monsters creation the monster was brushed aside by the doctor. The monster was then helped along by the De Lacey family. In the end though, the monsters own emotional short falls brought both his reign of terror and his own fate upon him. No one person can be blamed for the evils of another, other than the person who committed those evils.