Frankenstein misinterprets the creature’s threat. This causes him to lose his wife. If Victor
would have thought properly and requisitioned his family to help him kill the
monster on his wedding night. Twice
Victor knew when the creature would come but he failed to prepare properly for
the creature coming. If before the
creature had threatened and killed those close to Victor why would he think it
would kill him first still. “I knew that
I was preparing for myself a deadly torture; but I was a slave, not the master,
of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey” (Shelly 164). The creature is an intelligent being with a
of kilter conscience. He knows what he should have done but he is not equipped
well enough to fight his impulses. The
message behind this book if there is one it is to beware of your impulses. Both Victor and the creature continually give
into impulses rather that thinking rationally.
If either one would have actually thought about their actions Victor’s
family might have lived.
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