Topic > Double Standards in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Everyone in the book assumed that the monster was evil and wanted him to go away, but in reality it was Victor Frankenstein who was the real monster. He was the one who created the monster in the first place, then abandoned it, which caused the monster to become evil. He was never taught love or how he should behave. The monster says to his creator: “You accuse me of murder; yet, with a satisfied conscience, you would destroy your own creation. Oh, praise the eternal righteousness of man” (Chapter 10, page 90). If Victor had never left his creation and had actually stayed and cared for the monster and taught him the way he should act, then everyone who was killed and all the damage that was done could have been avoid. In Frankenstein the real monsters are humans. The only reason the monster was perceived as evil and dangerous was its appearance, which is a double