The book Frankenstein is a very popular book in the 1800’s. Today this book is read in many classrooms, and even has sparked a couple of movies depicting the book. In the book, a character named Victor Frankenstein is a scientist that wants to create the perfect human. He tries to make humans healthier and stronger, but creates a hideous creature. The creature runs off and eventually kills everyone that victor has ever loved. But who was the real monster? Was it the creature himself? Or was it the creator who created the creature, and shunned him away?

In order to figure out who was the true monster, we have to look at both individually. First lets take a look at the creature himself, know as “the monster”. The creature was mad at Victor for leaving him, so he wanted to make his life as miserable as possible. The monsters first attack was on Victors brother William, he killed him and framed Justine for the murder. It was at this point he started to kill everyone that Victor had ever loved. But he did all of this as revenge to whom he thought the real monster was, Victor Frankenstein.

The creature thought Victor was the true monster, not himself. Victor gave the creature life, and then abandon him right away. He was too driven by his passion that he never stopped to think if it was a good idea in the first place. When it came time to actually take care of his creation that he was responsible for, he abandoned him and led the creature to do the horrible things that he had done. Another way Victor is the actual monster is when Justine was blamed for Williams death, he did not speak up and tell who really killed her, and not let her die for something in which had no part in.

Overall, both the creature and Victor Frankenstein were terrible “people”. But still the question remains, “Who is the real monster?”. The answer is, both of them. Both are responsible for deaths and made each others life miserable. The creature is a monster on the outside while on the other hand, Victor is a monster on the inside.