A monster, to me is someone that acts like Victor Frankenstein. He attempted to play God, and create a creature. After the creation of his "Monster" he abandons him, when he should have taken him and nurtured him as if it was his child. Then Victor never takes responsibility for his actions and is never completely guilty through the book. Victor has no emotion, and in fact when his mother died, he looked at it something that put off his travels to Ingolstadt
"My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest, and learn to think ourselves fortunate, whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized." (pg. 25)
He was upset about his mother dying, because it interfered with him moving on. Victor felt that he had tasks to complete, and his mother's death was keeping him from completing those tasks.
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A monster is a being with no moral values, someone who ultimatly does the most immoral things. Victor's creation does nothing immoral, in fact he is actually happy when he is created. He loves to hear the birds sing and he even attempts to sing along with them. This does not seem like a monster to me but as he interacts with society, he turns into a monster. society is the ultimate monster that breeds other monsters.
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