In the final chapters of Frankenstein we learn what the author Mary Shelly truly thinks about humanity; humans are inheritly evil. Throughout the conclusion of the book it becomes apparent that Shelly is trying to point out similarities between the monster and Victor. Victor has become the monster who he once created; devestated by loniliness and with only one purpose in life, to destroy the being that has caused him this pain. “I, like the arch fiend, bore a hell within me.” This is how the monster responds after being cast away from the village he tried to enter. "and carried about with me my eternal hell.” As we see Victor become more like the monster, he starts emulating the monster own thoughts. Victor is evil on three accounts: he created the wretched monster, he refused to teach and care for his creation, and he becomes as treacherous as the monster himself.
Human beings are born neither good or bad. There is no such thing as a baby that is inheritly evil. Even Hitler was an innocent baby. Humans are affected by the environment in which they grow up in, the people they surround themselves with and the lifestyle they choose. Often what creates an evil person is from neglection or abuse in their childhood. The monster suffered from the former, an the result was hideous.
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