Tuesday, April 29, 2008
You surprise me...
Odd, given your response to Dimmesdale, Gregor, John...and others...you guys area all big on responsibility...doesn't a god, or God for the matter, have a certain responsibility to himself and his creation? Did VF EVER really admit he was responsible for his creation's well-being as well as its (his) actions?
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We are big on responsibility. But Victor's first responsibility was to the people around him, not to his monster. He knew that the monster was dangerous and should have taken care of it--to protect the people he "loved."
Imo.
i think Victor just had responsibility issues in general. every time he needed to take care of something, he either bailed on his loved ones or Harold. i don't think it's fair to say that Victor had one responsibility that was more pressing than any of his other responsibilities.
poor planning on Victor's part. very poor planning.
I agree Ali. NO, Victor didn't take responsibility. He banished and condemned Harold the minute he was instilled with life. If you're comparing Victor to God--I think I'd rather kill myself and go to Hell than live in a society where he was God...I'm certain that one wrong move and we'd all be screwed over anyway...at least in Hell it's supposedly comparitive to how you spent your life, only worse...Heaven would be Hell and Victor Satan if he ever had any deity-like qualities.
But he blew it the first jump out of the chute--his creation, his "child" if you will, came to him, reaching and smiling. The creature was not pleasing to the creator, so he screamed and ran...not a geat role model for the newly-awakened soul.
His first resposibility WAS to the people around him first...until he created something. One would think that the second you create life, your responsibility and priorities should do some shuffling. Had Victor taken care of Harold, then Harold wouldn't have been driven to do what he did. That was Victor's responisbility, but he didn't take it. By failing in that, his other responsibilities failed because the people around him suffered at the hands of HIS creation that he didn't take any care of. He finally started to take responsibility for his actions when he started chasing Harold in the end...after the last person he loved and had responsibiliy to protect died.
if you create life then you create the responsibility that goes with it. it doesnt matter if you claim that responsibility or not, you still have it. for victor to just run away from everything all the time was absolutly stupid. he should have taken care of the creature that he created along with his family and the other ppl around him. maybe if things had started differently and victor was a responsible adult, harold wouldnt have turned out to be a monster. despite his looks.
I dont think Victor ever took responsibility for his creation. He just ran away and said it was not his problem. He put his wants and comfort levels above the monster's and everybody else's too (concerning their safety). Every death in the book is the fault of Victor, not the monster. At the end right before Victor dies I think he kinda recognized that he had some responsibility towards the monster but instead of being a man and dealing with it he chose the easy way out and died. Victor was a man of greath knoweledge but of little nerve and strength and b/c of this the knoweledge was wasted.
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