away from his family. Victor leaves home to go study at college. In the mean time his family and his beloved Elizabeth got left out of his priorities. He wished to exert “his own selfhood” over others (Walling 45). Frankenstein, “so deeply engraved in [his] occupation,” never ceased to think about his family. He thought only of himself and how to command the powers of life as he worked so diligently on his creation and studies. He misses seven years of his family’s life in consequence to his actions. During this time many thing happen at home that will lead up to the death of several family members and his own fate with the monster. He is unable to explain what he means by his self reproaches because, “of course, the very existence of the monster is a secret” which he cannot share (Small 173).Victor’s last offence of abandonment is abandoning his homeland. He abandons his homeland in search for power which man cannot possess. He desires to “raise himself to eminence” to make him feel unique (Walling 36). Frankenstein abandons his country again to chase the monster in revenge of the death of his family member and to make sure that he does not continue his killing spree. He “burned with rage” to pursue the “murderer of [his] peace (124). The monster is not free from this offence. It completes two episodes of abandonment. It abandons its good nature, then society as a whole. The monster was not born evil. The monster “being capable of good,” is made clear by its own story (Intro 2). The monster, spurned by everyone, changes his thought. After trying to fit in as a human being and becoming a “master of their language”(80), he left his “feelings of affection, and they were requited by destation and scorn” (124). After it learns to read and deciphers the notes left by Frankenstein in the garments the monster to...
