Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation

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he fails to recognize that his creature's outward appearance is hideous. He knew of the creature's disfigured face and gigantic proportions, yet he is so blinded by his ego that he fails to take into account the results of his actions, i.e. how his creation would coexist with other beings. His thoughtless actions immediately doom his creature to be a social outcast. Frankenstein never acknowledges the results of his mistakes until people start being murdered. His hasty actions could incriminate him to be the 'true murderer' as if he had of thought his action through than he would have never created the creature and so the murders may never have happened.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the sole being that can take responsibility for the creature that he created, as he is the only one that had any part in bringing it into being. While the actions of the creature are the ones that are illegal and violent, their roots can be traced back to the flaws of Frankenstein as a creator. Many of ...

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It is due to this abandonment that the Monster develops murderous tendencies later in the novel. If Victor had of accepted his parental responsibilities, the monster would never have been driven to murder.
As the novel progresses, Frankenstein's irresponsibility manifests itself once the murders start occurring. After the murder of William Frankenstein's brother, Victor's hesitance to accept responsibility for the boy's death causes a young girl to be hung for what was theoretically victor's crime.

'I believed in her innocence; I knew it. Could the demon, who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother, also in this hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death?' ...

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