Slavery

     In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley there seems to be a theme of slavery.  There are a few times when after Victor sees the creature he feels as if the creature is killing him.  He says "I felt the fiend's grasp in my neck" (135).  Victor soon becomes a slave to his own work, his own creation.  The creature begins to tell victor to obey him because he is the master now.  It is also kind of ironic that Victor's creation becomes his master.  Victor is such a slave to his work that he never asked himself in the beginning if he should do it.  He always asked himself "can I do it".  I believe that Victor could have avoided this if he realized what he was getting into.  He was the master in the beginning, the father to this creature.  His lack of raising the creature caused the creature to become evil and malicious.