"I had in the custom of taking every night a small quality of laudanum; for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life."(135)
Victor is an antihero because, instead of facing his mistakes and trying to make them right, he hides from them until they go away. He lets the creature wonder for two years with out monitoring or even suspicion as to what he might be doing. If the creature did not happen back in to Victors life by happening on his younger brother, Victor might not have given the hideous, dangerous creature another thought. He mentally shut down at the first sign of anxiety when the main character usually makes a plan to save the day, rid the world of the monster that he just created. When he is forced back with the creature, he acquiesces to make another. Only when he decides to go after the monster does he make any heroic action. Shortly after this, he gives up in the ultimate way and removes himself from the world. This lets the creature win. It's as if he never saw the creature again after his breakdown at the factory, because he had not stopped the monster.
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