A Story Seemed Doomed From the Start

In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the story is told through an interesting point of view.  The title character takes over narration beginning in chapter one, and he constantly eludes to the fact that his destiny was a bad one.  When the reader is introduced to a new character, it is almost always met with the same explanation at some point.  He claims that if the meeting had been avoided, he could have avoided the awful fate that he eventually met.  As the narrator, he seems to be looking back on the story and wishing he could change just one part of it, so the ordeal would never happen.  Another common theme he discusses is his destiny.  As he tells the story, he says he was doomed from the start, and his fate was set to be painful.  He says things such as, "Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction," (Shelley, 23).  Victor as the narrator is a very remorseful and regretful person.  He wishes nothing more than to prevent the events that have ruined his life, but his only power now is to recount the woeful story.