Frankenstein, the creator of the creature, does not “arrogantly” take on the responsibility of giving birth, he simply decides to take on the role himself, believing he’ll be able to achieve the impossible. Although Frankenstein didn’t arrogantly take on the responsibility of giving birth, he is overall an arrogant person, he believes he will be able to get fame and fortune from the monster he is going to create, however he doesn’t know that what he creates shall become a monster. Frankenstein is arrogant in personality due to how he acts, such as in Chapter One, the reader is able to realise that Frankenstein is arrogant just by a single quote “I was their plaything and their idol, and something better - their child” this shows the reader that he is also vain, he believes himself to be better than he actually is, even up until he reached his older years. Victor could also be seen as arrogant for his view on physical beauty instead of inner beauty, he shuns the Monster because of his appearance, not giving the Monster chance to show its creator what a kind being it could have been, before it became corrupted by the criticism of its creator, later on the rest of the human population would be doing the exact same, making the Monster more and more corrupt within the mind, being shown that all humans were the same, which made the Monster angry, knowing he wouldn’t fit in. But it isn’t only the Monster that Victor wished to have physical beauty, he was also obsessed with Elizabeth’s beauty with how he described her “The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine” and when he returned back to Elizabeth after a certain amount of time, Mary Shelley described Elizabeth’s beauty to lessen dramatically, making Victor Frankenstein look upon he differently, it was as if his feelings for Elizabeth -that used to be, apparently, very strong- had suddenly disappeared, or at least became less of an issue for him, just showing