Some critics view the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a victim, others as an evil monster. Explore how the narration of both the creature and Frankenstein address the narrate on the issue of responsibility.

... Some critics view the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a victim, others as an evil monster. Explore how the narration of both the creature and Frankenstein address the narrate on the issue of responsibility. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a fictitious debate about the difference between being a victim and being true evil in the society of the age. Mary Shelley's writing style is in much the same way as Frankenstein's scientific style. Where Frankenstein used many different body parts from many different corpses to build his creature, Mary Shelley used many different historical and writing contexts to build upon her novel. These contexts which she used in the novel included Darwin's theory, gothic horror genre, the advances in medicine and technology and even her own background. The novel also plays a role of a moral warning to the reader, with the developing medicines and technology, to never

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