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Most of the time in our society, we judge the people by their appearance. The important thing that most of the attractive people should know is that no one chose to be born ugly or not. Being attractive doesn't mean being physical looks good. Also, we need to consider that sometimes the most attractive people have the worst manners ever. Usually, they are smugglers and have bad behaviors. But we have to admit that we made that mistake. We have given value to the beauty and neglected morality. For me, appearance is not everything, because if I am communicating with somebody, I need him to be respectful to me, as I am respectful to him. I am not saying that the attractive people disrespectful, but a lot of them have sick thoughts. They think …show more content…
9, 2015, Robert Hoge, who describes himself as "ugliest person you've never met," is really upset about how the society treats the people just by their looking. He points that by saying: "That appearance, in other words, means something but it doesn’t mean everything." He also describes how ugly was he when he was a kid and the amount of the rejection that he received from the society especially from his parents just because he was ugly. Same as what happened to the creator of the novel, Marry Shelly Frankenstein. We realize how the society treated the creature roughly. Throughout the novel, Victor Frankenstein describes his creature with negative terms such as devil, demon, thing, and ogre. He was the oppressed child. As Robert Hoge got left from his family, Victor left his creature after he gives him life. Victor left the creature without teaching him anything about life. Therefore, the creature had a lot of difficulties in his life. And as the people hated him, he became full of hatred and …show more content…
She said "Ugly characters in kids’ books are generally horrible and their physical flaws are signs of other shortcomings. Villains have bad teeth, liars have long noses, zombies have thick skulls. The miserly are bony, the greedy, fat." We should fix that because not always the ugly is the evil and the beautiful are the heroes. And we can realize that when we look to the magaziens and sales; they usually used use an attractive people as models to make you look at their products. She also got a little nervous from her girl, because she refused to play with Eleanor Roosevelt doll, and on the other hand, she slept with her beautiful Barbie doll. But for me, we can't blame the little girl, because the girl judged the doll from its appearance. And that's the same thing that happens with the creator of the novel. When Safie, Agatha, and Felix return from their walk while the creature shows up to the old man, they hit him with cries of fear and panic because of the creature looks. And as we read, we going to see how the old man accepted the creature from his hear, and this one of the advantges of being blind, because if you are blind, you not going to be tricked with people's
The line “ and you’ll be ugly forever,” (225) conveys how people’s first instinct of you is to judge no matter what, they may not even know who you are but that’s the natural instinct. This quote shows how even though someone else may think you’re ugly in someone else's eyes that person could be perfect. Tally Youngblood started to realize this when David, a friend she met at The Smoke, kept complimenting her about the way she looked, but she had never looked at herself in a different way other than an ugly. David sees her as a perfect girl, but even perfect girls have flaws. Tally seems to think that everything about her is a flaw. She's never looked at herself from a different perspective. “... but uglies have an easier time trusting someone like me…”(356) Uglies have an easier time trusting anyone than pretties, because they're uglies and they don’t understand the hardships that the pretties may face, even though they live in the same society. Uglies may think pretties have it easy but they haven’t experienced that life
The creature was created with the intention of goodness and purity but because of this, he wasn’t equipped to deal with the rejection of his creator. After Victor Frankenstein’s death, Robert Walton walks in to see the creature standing over his friend’s lifeless body.
Many of Frankenstein's faults are evident in the appearance of his creation. It is described as having yellow skin, dark black hair, eyes sunk into their sockets, and black lips (Shelly 56). Frankenstein, having chosen the parts for his creature, is the only one possible to blame for its appearance. Martin Tropp states that the monster is "designed to be beautiful and loving, it is loathsome and unloved" (64). Clearly it is Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the creation process to allow for a creature that Frankenstein "had selected his features as beautiful," (56) to become something which the very sight of causes its creator to say "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He overlooks the seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when something is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.
Humankind is unable to see that in the beginning, the creature is innately good. Also, society’s ability to make a judgement without substantial amounts of knowledge drove the creature further towards self destruction. For instance, when the creature saves a little girl from drowning, he does not receive the praises that would normally be expected. Instead, the creature is shot, and “inflamed by pain, [he] vow[s] eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” (Shelley 143). When the creature first gains awareness, it is not yet corrupted by the ills that society forces on him. However, society is making the generalization that ugly is equivalent to evil, which causes the creature to see himself as evil. Rosemary Jackson acknowledges that “naming the double [creature] is impossible for Frankenstein and society since it is themselves in alienated form, an image of themselves before they acquired names”(Jackson). In other words, the creature is an outsider because its name is unknown to society. Society not giving the creature a name, but referring to him as a “monster, ugly wretch [and] an ogre” it is telling the creature that he is wicked because they are associating his appearance with things that society sees as evil (Shelley 144). Thus, the creature realizes that he must be malicious because he does not have a name to define
Frankenstein spent nearly two years devoting his life to giving life to an inanimate body. Frankenstein was so excited about finishing his work until he brought it the creature to life. Once the creature came to life Frankenstein abandoned him. Victor said, “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchambers, unable to compose my mind to sleep (Shelley, 43).” Victor cast aside his creation simply because of his looks he could not get passed them. If Victor would have accepted and embraced the Monster than the outcome of their relationship could have been very different. Frankenstein’s rejection was the start of his future and happiness being stripped away from him. He had a chance to redeem himself to the Monster and he promised him he would create a companion for him and again he denies him that right as well. Victor spends months creating a companion for the creature and once he was almost finished he “tore to pieces” the Monsters companion. Victor now not only betrayed his creation once, but twice. First Victor left him and then he breaks his promise that he made
Frankenstein constructed his creature in a nonconventional way, using parts "from nonhuman animal remains from a slaughterhouse" (Petsche 1). The fact that he was constructed from nonhuman parts shows that he does not look like a normal human being. As soon as Frankenstein sees his creation, he rushes out of his laboratory because he was repulsed by the monster's dull yellow eyes and yellow skin (Shelley 85). Frankenstein then leaves his creation simply because of physical judgements (a4 1). Frankenstein spends two years building this creation to leave it because it is looks horrid. The creature's first interaction with a human was that of rejection. The creature also faces rejection because of his looks when he approaches William. When William sees the creature, he cries out "monster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me, and tear me to pieces" (Petsche 1). Because of this rejection, the creature strangles and kills William. In addition, the creature is rejected by the family that he was secretly caring for. In conclusion, the creature is deprived of a normal relationship because of his
As a tragic hero, Victor’s tragedies begin with his overly obsessive thirst for knowledge. Throughout his life, Victor has always been looking for new things to learn in the areas of science and philosophy. He goes so far with his knowledge that he ends up creating a living creature. Victor has extremely high expectations for his creation but is highly disappointed with the outcome. He says, “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 35). Frankenstein neglects the creature because of his horrifying looks, which spark the beginning of numerous conflicts and tragedies. At this point, the creature becomes a monster because of Victor’s neglect and irresponsibility. The monster is forced to learn to survive on his own, without anyone or anything to guide him along the way. Plus, the monster’s ugly looks cause society to turn against him, ad...
As human nature, we tend to judge too much. We judge others by the color of their skin, their weight, if they have acne or not, and how they dress The Creature, from Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, is judged throughout the entire novel. He looks different,
He sees his own reflection and realizes how grotesque he is. He find books in the woods such as “Paradise Lost” and reads them with journals he found in victor's clothing. Frankenstein learns of victors horror at seeing him and his monstrous nature. One day when the young people weren't around he tried to talk to an old blind peasant hoping to have a social connection with the man. Not too long after the young peasants come back and make him leave. Frankenstein saves a girl from drowning, but because of his appearance, he is rewarded only with beatings and disgust. The monster ends up lonely and tormented by remorse. Frankenstein’s monster was not evil or bad originally, its first action was to grin, however circumstances surrounding its early life made it into the murderer it
People’s impression of the Creature has become so twisted and turned by time and decades of false film posters and article titles that most use the name “Frankenstein” to refer to the Creature itself, rather than the scientist who created him! It’s a shame, he said! An understanding of literary history is a necessity to comprehend the truth of the Creature’s tragic history and how decades of film adaptations changed him into the hulking beast most people know him as today. Illustration from the frontispiece of the 1831 edition of Shelley’s Frankenstein novel by Theodor von Holst. First of all, Mary Shelley describes the Creature as "yellow skin scarcely covering the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was luxurious black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight Despite his appearance of a "monster" the original Creature portrayal is that of a sensitive, intelligent being rather than a nonspeaking idiot and killing machine.
Throughout the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the monster is rejected by society because of his looks and actions. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster, forced the monster to be mean and lonely because of how he was treated. Frankenstein could have made the monster look and act more kindly if he would have taught him how to. One should have taught the monster how to act, how to survive and show him right from wrong.
Victor Frankenstein and the others who have encountered the creature all recoiled in horror at the mere sight of him. He is described by Victor: “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!—Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips” (Shelley, 35). Even his creator shuns him based solely on his looks. Another attribute of the creature that makes him monstrous is his thirst for revenge against Victor and the hateful attitude he develops toward humans throughout the book. While he has not developed the emotional intelligence and experience of other human beings, he has learned to differentiate between right and wrong. Therefore, the murders he has committed are taken into consideration when labeling the creature as a monster. If anything, as I will later demonstrate, the creature is an antihero. He is mostly monstrous in appearance but his thoughts, feelings and circumstances create the ingredients of an antihero, who has doubtlessly committed
We see through out the novel the importance of a value like beauty, weather it be for the self or in society, can more than likely have an effect on the individual. Individuals who do not meet society’s expectations or standards to what is considered beautiful risk the idea of being rejected. That’s exactly what happens to Frankenstein’s monster, to an extent the alien in Alien as well. The continuous rejection, humiliation, and insensitiveness towards the monsters appearance, turned the at first child like creature, into one who seeks revenge on human kind. Never giving the gentle and intelligent creature a chance to prove he belonged or to show he wanted to part of the human world. But what he soon understood understands that his origins and appearance are too unsightly as un-human; for that reason he will never be accepted into the human world.
Despite Frankenstein's very violent nature and the actions he took within the book people judged Frankenstein before even getting to know him which eventually made him even more mad. Frankenstein is referred to as a monster, yet throughout the novel the reader is made aware of the compassion and morality that Frankenstein has. Many associate his evil personal with his ragged and tattered look, just like described in the novel, “his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries…his hair was of a lustrous black…his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes…his shriveled complexion and straight black lips” (Shelley 60). Everyone that sees him ult...
Throughout the story Victor Frankenstein’s creation is constantly judged and rejected solely for how he looks. In the monsters first couple of days alive he wanders to a village and attracts everyone’s attention. Some people ran away, but “some attacked [him], until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, [he] escaped to the open country”(109). There is no explanation for the villager’s actions, other than the fact that they were unable to look past his inhuman appearance. Even though they had never interacted with the monster, their unnecessary actions impacted his negative view on mankind and physically hurt him. Later on when the monster decides to travel to Geneva he sees a young girl slip and fall into a stream. Immediately after he “rushed from [his] hiding place, and, with extreme labor from the force of the current, saved her and dragged her to shore”(143). Right after the monster saves the girls life a man grabs her from the monster and shoots him. As the monster says, he “saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense [he] now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone”(143). Shelley shows that while this man had only been around the monster for less than a minute, he went to the lengths of shooting him because of his