Before reading the novel, people assume that the beast created is the one inflicting violence on the villagers left and right. He was thrown into the world with no communication skills, no one told him the rules to live by, he was expected to learn it on his own, or not at all. Victor created him, it was his responsibility to teach him, like a parent teaches their child. Victor is responsible for the violence that follows in this novel, and he knows it too. He created him in the first place so every act of violence committed by the creature essentially falls on him. Additionally, he himself ultimately inflicted violence on the creature with verbal threats and had the intention of killing it. The blame is so easy to place on this novel, but in the long run the blame is placed on the one who created the creature. Victor, the protagonist, is the man to blame for all this, he knows it, the creature knows it and the reader knows it. Sometimes, novels don't always have an obvious hero, sometimes even a beast can be one