Whenever people think about Frankenstein they usually think about his monster and not Frankenstein himself, the scientist. For some reason the word “Frankenstein” now refers to the unnamed monster rather than the man himself. Culture seems to focus on the inhumanity of the monster rather than the inhumanity of his creator. If anything, it is Frankenstein who is the monster in this tale. Victor Frankenstein irresponsibly creates another human being and, when this creation does not turn out the way he wanted it to, abandons it. He creates this monster without any regard to the consequences of his actions. For years Frankenstein studies to learn the secret of life but when he gives life to this monster, this culmination of his life’s work and knowledge, he runs away from his creation in fear. Frankenstein just hopes that his creation will go away and that he won’t have to fix what he created. He does not give his creation any guidance on how to behave or how to survive in this world and then acts surprised when his creation runs amok in the world. What’s worse, instead of asking for help or telling the authorities what he has unleashed, he keeps it secret. He doesn’t even have the decency to name the creature so it can have some identity other than Frankenstein’s arrogant mistake.