The monster in Frankenstein is lonely throughout the story looking for meaning, much like Grendel from Beowulf. These two monster type characters are both outcasts in their stories that have less than pleasing appearances. The monster from Frankenstein is abandoned by his master, while Grendel is exiled from the townspeople. Grendel kills because he sees other’s happy while he cannot be, which is similar to the monster killing because Frankenstein created him into a world that did not want him. These characters only wish is to be normal and have meaning, although this isn’t an easy task for these monsters. The concept of isolation is a huge factor in both stories that each character has to deal with. Throughout Frankenstein, the monster is abandoned by his creator and rejected by anyone else he comes in contact with. “Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned” (13.17). This is much like Grendel’s experience, since he was also disowned and rejected from his own society. He was outcast to live in the swamps. …show more content…
Grendel tries to become part of society by attempting to befriend the humans. “I sank to my knee, crying, Friend! Friend!... their spears came through…” (p.52). Here this quote shows he wants to make friends with the humans, but because of his appearance and differences, he is shunned. This causes the hatred in him to kill. Likewise, the monster kills because of his abandonment. The monster wants his creator to feel his pain, so he kills members of his family. ”I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery” (Chapter 20). Both creatures throughout their stories use killing as an escape to find happiness and revenge for the treatment they have
Frankenstein is a horror movie that tells the story of Dr. Henry Frankenstein’s experiment. In search for the fame and glory of playing to be god, he reaches a point where he is able to revive dead people. In this version of Frankenstein’s monster we see a selfish and careless scientist that created a creature with his intelligence. The way the character is shown reflects how ambitious someone can be to reach to be known in the world. This movie makes the people who are watching to feel empathy on the poor creature. This poor creature that did not want to live in a life where everyone is going to hate him for having a horrible aspect and not following rules that he has no idea about.
He also states that his reasons for his actions were because of the fact that he did not have another of his kind so it is nearly impossible for his needs to be met, which is an outward sign of Maslow’s Hierarchy being a valid element within the novel. Since the creator, Frankenstein, contemplates and later decides against creating a female creature, the monster is very upset about it and once more seeks revenge (Shelley). Since yet another need on Maslow’s Hierarchy is not met, the creature seeks violence because his need is not being met, and if Frankenstein can’t create a female creature for him, no one else can. In other words, it is impossible for the third level of the Hierarchy to be met and this is cause for loneliness for the monster. If he did not feel as an outsider in the beginning, he certainly feels like one now and that’s causing him to want to commit violence because subconsciously, most people will feel the need to react in a negative way because of the body’s natural reaction to try and fulfill that
He kills people because he enjoys it. Evidence of this can be found in an abundance throughout the novel. “An evil idea came over me-so evil they it made me shiver as I smiled-and I sidled across to the table.” (Gardner 83-84) This is the point in the story when Grendel is torturing Unferth. He's enjoying himself, smiling. The one time it would have been merciful for him to kill he refuses to do so. This scene can without a doubt prove that Grendel’s intentions are not for the best. He's not terrorizing the humans to “improve their lives”. He's doing it because it's fun to him. The reader can already see that Grendel doesn't care about the humans, so why would he ravage their town to improve their society? The only reasonable answer as to why Grendel does what he does is because he enjoys
1. He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl who committed herself to his care.
He derives a satisfaction from his interactions with the Danes that he cannot get from interactions with any other creature. violent outbursts and antagonistic relationship with humans can be seen as the result of a lonely creature’s misunderstood attempts to reach out and communicate with someone else. Grendel was amused by the humans, observing of their violence that (ch 3) He was sickened by the waste of their wars, all the animals killed but not eaten. Ashamed of his monstrousness, what better that to be like the thing you envy the most.
Grendel and Frankenstein are two monsters whose society ignores their existence and find them to be burdensome to their society based on the mere fact that they are not like the rest of their surrounding man-kind. Grendel and Frankenstein both strive to accept their place in the views of their surrounding peoples. Although their sporadic happiness comes from them engaging in fights and killing members of their societies, they learn to accept their place within the societies by coping with their ability to stay loyal to themselves and to fight back with self-devotion and not wanting to give up on themselves.
In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and the film Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton their creations have a desire to be loved. Which leads them on a journey of acceptance for themselves and others. Everyone has felt the need to find why they are here on earth; we all search for answers we are no different from them.
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is about a creature born in an unaccepting world. Shelley's idea of Gothicism changed the subgenre of horror, due to its dark look into nature. It became an influence on Tim Burton's movie Edward Scissorhands, moved by the sadness of the creature trying to fit into society, he creates a monster of his own. Mary Shelley and Tim Burton use literary and cinematic elements to show that isolation from society can destroy your relationship with others.
Both characters from the novels Prometheus and Victor Frankenstein were similar because they were both intelligent. Victor loved science, he sued to go on journeys to seek more information about life and death, because at home he had nobody to teach him.” My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. (Victor Frankenstein quotes on education). And he even studied abroad to see more knowledge on his favorite subject. This created major conflicts with his professor at the university but also admiration among professors and peers.
In the books, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind, the intentions behind the heroes' slaughtering binges are comparative. Both the creature from Frankenstein and Grenouille from Perfume are abhor humankind since they are rejected from mankind which makes them slaughter. They additionally both need another creation to facilitate their distress. For the beast it is a sidekick, and for Grenouille it is a fragrance. The creature and Grenouille are both rejected start during childbirth.
As time goes on, many things tend to change, and then they begin to inherit completely different images. Over the years, the character, created by Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s famous novel, has changed dramatically. The monster, regularly called “Frankenstein,” has been featured in numerous films, such as Frankenweenie and Edward Scissorhands. Although, the characters in today’s pop culture and the monster in the well-known 1800’s novel have similarities, they are actually very different. The many similarities and differences range from the character’s physical traits and psychological traits, the character’s persona, and the character’s place in the Gothic style.
In Frankenstein, Victor’s monster suffers much loneliness and pain at the hands of every human he meets, as he tries to be human like them. First, he is abandoned by his creator, the one person that should have accepted, helped, and guided him through the confusing world he found himself in. Next, he is shunned wherever he goes, often attacked and injured. Still, throughout these trials, the creature remains hopeful that he can eventually be accepted, and entertains virtuous and moral thoughts. However, when the creature takes another crushing blow, as a family he had thought to be very noble and honorable abandons him as well, his hopes are dashed. The monster then takes revenge on Victor, killing many of his loved ones, and on the humans who have hurt him. While exacting his revenge, the monster often feels guilty for his actions and tries to be better, but is then angered and provoked into committing more wrongdoings, feeling self-pity all the while. Finally, after Victor’s death, the monster returns to mourn the death of his creator, a death he directly caused, and speaks about his misery and shame. During his soliloquy, the monster shows that he has become a human being because he suffers from an inner conflict, in his case, between guilt and a need for sympathy and pity, as all humans do.
Man has always been driven to create. We constantly shape the world around us by inventing stories of heroes and monsters, by crafting complex but passionate ideals about good and evil. Some relish in the power that this manipulation of reality wields; others are more innocent in that they are simply yielding to a universal longing for something in which to believe.
Both Frankenstein and the monster suffer greatly through the novel, Frankenstein experiment, that had gone totally wrong. The monster is not mean, in the way that he tried to fit in, into society, but was shunned and never accepted by anyone. The monster lived alone, isolated for everyone and everything, meanwhile Frankenstein suffer as well. He loss everyone around him, in a blink of an eye, in the hands of the monster, regretment as he is the creator of the thing that destroyed his life. Although many blame everything on the monster, in the way he badly behaved, he is not at total fault for his action.As in the way that when the monster commits his crime with passion; he doesn't think apon his actions, but only lives in the moment and his action are his mostly rage.
Many fantasy plots can often share similarities, whether it is mystical creatures or the never ending fight between good and evil. Two books that share a mutual thought are Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien. Though at first glance the stories seem to have no similarities; with Frankenstein being about a young man taking experimental science too far, and The Lord of the Rings following the journey of fantastical folk in their quest to destroy an all-powerful ring. But if the characters in these plots are looked at carefully, likeliness can be found between Victor Frankenstein and the creature Gollum. The two characters Victor Frankenstein and Gollum are very similar in many respects; in their desire to have something which is not theirs to take, being blind in ignorance, and finally are diminished by the one thing they sacrificed everything for. “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven” (William Shakespeare).