Is victor Frankenstein the protagonist of the book?

In the original book by Mary Shelley, the monster becomes a murderer. His maker, Dr Frankenstein, hunts him down with the intention of killing him, but it is the Dr who gets mortally wounded by the monster. They are at the North Pole at the time, and the story ends with the monster being borne away in the Arctic Sea on an ice raft.

In the 1910 film, the monster vanishes when his maker, Frankenstein, finds true love and gets married!

There are also other versions of this story.

The text of the original story can be found at http://web.quipo.it/frankenstein/contents/Frankenstein.txt

In the original story Dr. Frankenstein dies of exhaustion.