What evidence suggests Victor feels responsibility for the murders? What evidence illustrates that he still blames the creature?In Chapter Eight, Justine is tried and found guilty of the murder of William and is therefore sentenced to death. “Fangs of remorse” tear Victor Frankenstein apart, internally, because he is the one who created the monster and left him on his own for two years, not caring what happened to him. This led to the creature strangling his brother William, and framing Justine who is being executed because Frankenstein is not willing to stand up for the truth, because he is scared of being labeled insane. His inability to tell anyone of this secret isolates him, and leaves him with overwhelming guilt and melancholy. The fact that he initially agrees to making another creature in Chapter Seventeen shows that he recognizes that he was in the wrong, and owed it to the creature to make up for his misfortune. However, Frankenstein is very selfish, and places the blame of the many deaths on the creature to make himself feel better. He destroys the female creature because he does not want another creature that is so evil. He disregards the fact that it was his fault in the first place for letting the creature roam free with no guidance whatsoever. He does not want to accept his role, because that would make him out to be a murderer.
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