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Frankenstein Why did Victor Frankenstein reject his creation? Was it a failure on his behalf to fully realize what he was going to create? Was he “grossed out” by the end result? Was he supposed to be the prototype for irresponsible parenting? All are possible explanations for the actions of his character, but they assume too much. Victor Frankenstein is but a tool for Mary Shelley to use to make other comments and observations about real life regarding Man’s limited ability to tolerate those who are different, Man’s struggle to overpower nature and Man’s tendency to have a “God complex”. Clearly, one of the main points that Shelley makes through this novel is that Man tends to reject and eventually hate that which differs from his own way of thought. The creation of Frankenstein is physically different, grotesquely so, from those he encounters.