Mary Shelley's Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein, a student from Ingolstadt who is able to bring a creature made up of various corpses back to life. Ashamed and disgusted by his creation, he runs away and is forced to keep his creation a secret which ultimately leads to the death of his entire family. When the creature described as intelligent and sensitive is left to its own devices; faces prejudice and isolation. Because he is able to learn through observation, he learns how he was created and develops an intense dislike for his creator. After being shunned and abandoned, the creature seeks revenge against its creator, Victor Frankenstein. There are multiple sides to every story. Throughout the novel Shelly uses a nonlinear structure to represent character interactions. Frankenstein begins with Captain Robert Walton through a series of letters dedicated to his sister Margaret in England. Robert Walton is portrayed as a character with great ambition who is "inspired by the wind of promise" (Shelley 12) to one day "shape a land never before left by the foot of man" (Shelley 16). Through his ambition Shelley is able to parallel his commitment to scientific discovery with that of Victor Frankenstein's desire to “give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man” (Shelley 48). As Robert Walton remains stranded, he writes to his sister of his desire to “have [a] friend” (Shelly 15), which serves as a parallel to the Creature's desire for affection. Because of Walton's affinity with both characters, the reader is able to see reason in both Frankenstein's and the Creature's actions. Captain Robert Walton serves as an impartial spectator like the reader and “invokes a literary paradigm with an established point of perspective” (Hu...... center of paper ...... points out that “for the first time , moreover, I felt what the duties of a creator were to his creature, and I must make him happy before I lamented his wickedness” (Shelley 104). through “adopting parental neglect.” At the beginning of the novel the Creature has clear infantile characteristics as well as having the inability to speak, read and write he is described as having "yellow skin" (Shelley 51) and "watery eyes" (Shelley 51), traits associated with an infant Once usually links newborns to innocence and purity which can be related to Shelley's view that men are born innocent, but through social pressure can develop a destructive and dangerous character.