Frankenstein (Blog 3)
By: Mary Shelley

By chapters 6 and 7, Victor is presented with a huge conflict.  He receives a letter from his father saying that William, Victor's youngest brother, has recently been murdered.  Victor immediately heads home to Geneva to spend time with his family in this time of mourning.  When he gets there that night, he decides to walk around in the woods.  Victor ends up walking to the spot where his brother's body was found, and he is shocked and terrified to see the monster there.  Victor quickly comes to a conclusion that the monster must have murdered his brother.  Soon, Justine Moritz, a former friend of the Frankenstein family, is accused of the crime.  Justine ends up pleading guilty to the crime, but she swears to Victor and Elizabeth that she is actually innocent.  After Justine's execution, Victor struggles with the thought that something he created killed two people close to him.  "Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts" (Shelley, 60).  Victor feels like it is all his fault that his brother and friend died.  He doesn't know what to do, though.  Should he tell the people that this creature is a murderer?  Or how can he undo the mess that he caused by creating this monster on his own?  Victor has no clue what to do, especially because anyone would think he is crazy if he told them how he created this monster.  I am curious to continue reading to find out how Victor handles this conflict.