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In the story of Frankenstein, there are three real monsters: society, Frankenstein, and the creature. All three of these monsters have qualities that are threatening and lead to harm. In the story, the most obvious representation of a monster is the creature that Frankenstein created. The being had a hideous and disturbing physical appearance that was able to frighten and disgust any human being. To go along with his monstrous looks, the monster became a killing machine. He killed William, Frankenstein’s younger brother, Elizabeth, his wife, and also Henry, his best friend. This beast possessed all the necessary characteristics of a true monster: unnatural and extreme deformities, wickedness, lack of humanity for other humans, and the ability to kill. While the creature may have had all the traits of a monster, Frankenstein, his creator, is a different definition of a monster. Frankenstein was a monster being that he toyed with nature and tried to play the role of God; he used his genius to unmorally create a human being. The scientist ultimately became a monster because of the results of his experiments. He put not only himself, but his family and the world as a whole in danger because he longed to find and recreat