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if victor was so repulsed by the creature, why didn't victor kill him?
did anybody ever wonder why?
Facebook User about 1 year ago
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Because Victor 'gave birth' to him.....could ye really kill your own child even if it was a hideously ugly monstaaar?
Vic Cat about 1 year agoI agree with the parent angle, but I also think it's a continuation of Victor's ego leading him into making colossally bad choices - he's a person with too much unearned power who takes minimal responsibility for his actions and inactions.
Facebook User about 1 year agoOoo, I never thought of that
Vic Cat about 1 year agoAlso, Victor was a coward. At first.
He tried to track down the creature, which leads to him learning the life story of the creature. His intent that whole time was to find and kill the creature.
Matthew Heimbecker about 1 year agoI would say because he was a complete ninny and fainted every time he got within 50 feet of the monster... "oh, but he eluded me" "oh, he eluded me again" Grow some stones and take some shooting lessons, buddy, before you decide to grapple with something twice your size.
Facebook User about 1 year agoVictor didn't realise he was repulsed until the creature was alive. It is a while since I read the book, but I do recall him saying in the narrative that he wished with hindsight that he he had stopped earlier. As pointed out by other posters, his ego prevents this. Clearly, once the creature was alive, he was too fast, and too powerful for Victor.
Facebook User about 1 year agoVictor is the monster's mother, in a demented, degraded sort of way, and any parent with a soul cannot kill their child. Mary Shelley was a woman, and in many ways the novel reflects the ultimate terror of motherhood: will I give birth to a person or something horribly deformed?
Facebook User about 1 year agoThere's a few of reasons explained in the book. First, he couldn't stand looking at the monster:
"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room".
Further, he was knackered when he finally infused life into the creation and had a kind of breakdown that Clerval had to help him recover from.
""I struggled furiously, and fell down in a fit."
Finally, and probably most importantly, he was scared of the monster:
"one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs."
So, he was a squeamish, tired coward.
Facebook User about 1 year agoHe really couldn't, for all those reasons listed above. He was so driven in the construction that he blinded himself to what he was doing. Call it ego or vanity--same sort of thing. By the time he was finished, it was too late--he was terrified at what he'd done but too shocked (and not strong enough) to do anything about it. Initially the creature thought he would find Victor and kill him, but then he relented and asked Victor instead to make him a companion; another like him would be the one thing his creator could do that would make him happy.
Facebook User about 1 year agoSmart comments here. It would seem, too, that Victor is overwhelmed by guilt and shame. Killing the monster would be too public, like dragging Justine's corpse out for everyone to see. Though I do agree that plot-wise, the monster is too superhuman to kill.
Facebook User about 1 year agoI think the monster eing too fast and strong for Victor coulld have contributed...
Morgan Atkinson 11 months agoThe answer is obvious. It is in Victor's psychology not to. Victor is a child. He is a smart child, but a child nevertheless. His whole reasoning is immature. Why does he seek so desperately to subvert death, because he is a spoiled child. Everything Victor wants Victor gets. Most people would have shrugged off their intentions of cheating death into their teens as an unrealistic and unpractical goal especially by their twenties. Victor is never told no. His plan is secret. He bottles everything within. He knows deep down that creating the monster is wrong. He knows it for a fact, but admitting it means that he is wrong. Victor cannot admit that he is wrong. He blames the external world and sees himself as pious. Destroying the monster means destroying himself and because he immature he cannot accept this course of action. Even after Elizabeth is dead he only uses her death to justify himself against the monster. It is not Victor’s fault in his mind it is the fault of the monster. Chasing the monster is a lie. Victor could have found the monster and no doubt had he found the monster as he desperately wishes to the monster in turn would have turned to confront his master. He probably stayed just far enough away from the monster to not be seen. He no doubt watched his monster live. It provides Victor with a loophole. If he never confronts the monster he never has to deal with himself or his immaturity. In this way Victor is as his name implies. He is victorious both over himself and the monster. By allowing the monster to live he stays the death of the creature and fills the void in the remainder of his life after the death of Elizabeth and his mother. He cheats death. He saves the monster because he can.
Dustin K Bass 10 months agoHe is weak-minded coward who knew he could never defeat the creature. Victor goes through the motions but doesn't truly want to confront the creature because he would then have to accept responsibility and culpability. Victor is an over-privileged child who cannot see past his own image. The Creature on the other hand is truly flawed and remorseful and therefore more human and sympathetic than the creator.
Brenda Anderson Wagner 10 months agoI totally agree with the two posts above. Throughout the beginning of the novel, Victor blames fate and destiny as the sources of his suffering, when really it is his own hubris and irresponsibility that lead to his downfall. He couldn't kill the monster because he identified himself in the monster- Victor never had any major accomplishments other than its creation. He was neither noble like Clerval or angelic like Elizabeth. All of his life has been set in pursuit of creating this life from nothing, and until the monster takes away everything of value to him, everyone that he had something to prove to, he can't stomach the fact that he struggled in vain.
Facebook User 10 months agoThere were some excellent points brought up about the relationship between Victor and his creation. The question is why didn't Victor kill him? One possible answer is that the creature was the unrecognized, subconscious, will of Victor Frankenstein. In each of the murders, Victor is upset with, or feels intimidated by, the victim. Even the murder of his fiance Elizabeth showed signs of this. Victor had, despite his protestations of love, been reticent to get married. Remember, Elizabeth called him "cousin" and the two were raised almost as siblings. Elizabeth was also suffering through melancholy and although she claimed to be happy about the nuptials, Victor noticed her uneasiness. Another common trait is that Victor is never at the murder scene until after the deed is done. Even the death of his friend Henry was from similar circumstances. Victor was angry with Henry and, amazingly enough, the creature kills him. This sounds quite similar to the Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. The creature acts as an extension of Victor's will. Victor subconsciously knew that his creation was an extension of himself. It would be murder/suicide to actually kill his creation.
Thomas Approbato 10 months agomy 2p
guilt!
Facebook User 10 months agoThe creator rejects the creation and as a result is the ultimate cause of the misfortunes that befall himself.
Destroying the creature would not free Victor from this which he eventually realises.
It's been a while since I read the book so forgive me for being rusty but my theory is threefold:
Gemma Benson 9 months ago1. God complex - this weedy little nobody has acheived something no man ever has. He's created life. How do you kill the one thing that makes you different. Althogh the creature was flawed he was still Victor's greatest work and, even though he killed people and wrougt havoc, he was bringing people's attention to Victor as in "this man created a monster, but he discovered a way to create life"
2. Guilt/P(M)aternal Instinct - to kill your own creation/child is not easy to do, no matter how flawed and homicidal. A part of Victor felt the existence of the creature was his penance for creating it and overstepping life's bounds. In a more religiously focus era than today, the idea of becoming God had to leave it's mark somewhere. To redeem himself, Victor had to live ith his mistake and, in a perverse way, find comfort through his suffering as it helped bring him clser to some imagined redeption
3. There would have been no story if Victor went "oops" and killed it!
Shelley made it up in a single night. Obviously, the decisions she made as a writer were rushed.
Baja Bdh 9 months ago