Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

If Victor would have wrote a letter to his family saying what he was really doing, the story would have been changed dramatically. The first "alternate ending" that I think could have occurred is the monster would not have been completed, and would remain a pile of limbs instead of a terrible creature. If Victor's family heard of the terrible things he was doing, they may have come to visit him at Ingolstadt. They could have talked him out of creating a monster and got him to return home. While his marriage may not have taken place this way (I assume Elizabeth would not want to marry crazy Victor), the lives of William, Justine, and Henry could have been saved. The monster (because he would not exist) could not have killed William and Henry. Because William would still be alive, Justine would not be charged with murder, and she would still be alive.

A second "alternate ending" that I think could have occurred is the killing of the monster. If the time Victor's family arrived to visit him was after the creation of the monster, his family could have helped him kill it. The story could have been the Frankenstein family going throughout Europe to try and find this crazy monster and kill it. While I am sure deaths would still happen, they could have happened in a less secretive way. The story could have been in a complete opposite direction than the way it went.