Victor Frankenstein's Responsibility Although humans tend to set idealistic goals to improve future generations, the results can often prove disastrous, even deadly. Mary Shelley's The Tale of Frankenstein focuses on the result of a man's idealistic motivations and desires to touch nature, which results in the creation of a horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure because of his initial desire to exceed the natural limits of human knowledge. Rather, it was the poor education of his offspring that led his creation to want to justify his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and thus creation accuses him of having delivered him into a world where he could never be fully received by the people who inhabit it. Not only does he fail to foresee his misguided idealism, but as the story draws to a close, he embarks on a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while himself admitting that doing so could lead to his own downfall. The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life hold Victor Frankenstein more responsible for his own death than creation itself. Delivered into the world, adult and without a tutor to teach him the ways of the human world, creation discovers that he is alone, but not without resources. He attempts to communicate with his creator, but he is unable to speak. As Frankenstein relates the situation, he says, I saw the wretch---the wretched monster that I had created. He raised the bed curtain; and his eyes, if they can be called eyes, were fixed on me. His jaw opened and he mumbled inarticulate sounds, while a smile creased his cheeks. He could have spoken, but I didn't hear; a hand was outstretched, apparently to hold me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs (Shelley, p. 43). As Frankenstein explains, he states that he deliberately neglects to communicate with his creation, due to its shocking and hideous appearance. If Frankenstein had taken the time to communicate and care for his creation, with all the knowledge he possesses of the responsibility of a good parent, the creation would never have developed the feeling of vengeance and retaliation that he led to the murder of Victor's loved one. Creation would henceforth account to Frankenstein for all his suffering following his birth..