The quote shows the creature’s feelings towards humanity. He believes that it is not his fault for acting like a monster but humans' fault for they refused to accept him. By isolating the creature they turned him into a monster who wanted revenge against the person who brought him into existence only to suffer. The creature only wanted to belong but when he was continuously treated terribly he saw that it would never happen and became the monster everyone expected him to be. The quote shows the creature’s feelings towards humanity. He believes that it is not his fault for acting like a monster but humans' fault for they refused to accept him. By isolating the creature they turned him into a monster who wanted revenge against the person who
After hearing the monster’s side of the story Frankenstein started to show some compassion for the being and agreed to it’s desire for a mate. Now that Frankenstein has learned the full story of his creation he feels the need to take responsibility for it now with the line, “did [he] not as his maker owe him all portions of happiness” (Shelley 125), less the monster start to attack humanity out of
On page 81 of the novel, the monster is thinking to himself as he said, “My thoughts became more active, and I longed to discover the motive and feelings of these lovely creatures…” (Shelley 81). It is distinct in the quotation how the monster is seeing his humanistic abilities—he has feelings and he has motives. He is beginning to understand the relationships the human population has with one another and he would like to be able to experience a humanistic relationship with someone who is similar to him. The ethos in the quotation is distinct because the monster’s desolate emotion could incite and emotional response from the audience—the audience could become empathetic to his situation. On page 85 of the novel, the monster was discussing his life to date as he said, “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing. From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion. I had never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me,” (Shelley 85). The monster has the knowledge of his psychical difference in comparison to the human population. The ethos in the quotation is distinct because
I like this quote because the author makes me feel distressed for the monster. He is telling the reader that his personality is good, but his life is miserable due to all the conflicts he faces.
...all human kind sinned against me?" (Shelley 160) The creature also believes that society treated him poorly and he blames all of his mistakes on society. Though what happens in the book is a fantasy, Mary Shelley’s message applies to the real world. For example, if a child is abused by his parents, he might have a harder time connecting to people. People who are abused are more likely to abuse their own children. The creature is never treated well by any humans so it is hard for him to treat them well back. John Locke and Jean Jacque Rousseau explain that if humans are treated well than there is a higher chance that they will turn out to be good, and if treated poorly then there is a chance for evil. (Gale Reference Library) Mary Shelley wants people to give people who might seem evil a chance because the people around them changed them to make them who they are.
... monster, who originally has kind intentions, turns into a vengeful monster due to society’s harsh discrimination and prejudice against it. The monster originally has a caring heart, but society negatively judges the monster by its first impression rather than the monster’s kind notions As a result, the monster seeks revenge on both his creator and humanity. The monster composes of human body parts and has human emotions, but his appearance is not human due to society’s criticism of him. The monster is not the true cruel being; the people who harshly criticize the creature are the true devils.
The Monster attempted to coexist with humanity, dealing with violence and abuse, only to be rejected and alone, much like how Satan is rejected by God. He is hoping that the wicked nature of the humans was not common between them all, until he meets the family which sways his opinions about the race. This fruit of hope soon turns rotten when he decides to befriend them only to be rejected again saying “from that moment on I declared everlasting war against the species” (Shelly 124) after their reaction. It was at this moment where he lost his innocence, seeing the truth that all humans are violent, only to make himself more lonely, which is seen in Paradise Lost from Satans rejection from God after they were defeated. Satan is a fallen angel,
The creature goes on to say that “To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honor that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.”(52) He is speaking of his creator, Victor Frankenstein, as he believes the “virtuous” part of him is the “god-like” way that he had permeated him with life but the “base” part of his creator is the violent way in which he shunned him and left him to fend for himself to the natural world.
The creature’s embodiment of the non-European, the outcast, the alien and the other stems from the incompleteness of the monster ability to engage in cretin perceptions of the world he was brought in. Unlike the Europeans, the monster was brought to life with no concept of value, or cultural norms. T...
When the monster (also Nature) is created, the role of antagonist and protagonist changes due to enforcement. When the monster was created, it wasn’t the antagonist. It tried to do many good things such as saving a small girl. Those good deeds were never rewarded, causing the monster to be disgusted with humanity making it, by...
The When the creature was brought to life, it was like an infant: it only had basic sensations, it remarked, “I felt light, hunger, and thirst, and darkness” (74). The creature was not “born” evil. It was called a monster simply because it had an awful appearance. Although the creature is a monster outside, it has a benevolent heart inside. As Yuval Livnat explains in the article “On The Nature of Benevolence”, “A benevolent person certainly does not turn a blind eye to misfortunes of others and to the possibility of helping them” (304). The creature collects wood for the cottagers to reduce their hardship secretly (79). It is willing to help the cottagers since it knows they are having a hard life. Therefore, the creature actually has humanity at the beginning. Also, the creature comments, “I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable quantities of my cottagers” (84). It is obvious that the books, and kind cottagers shaped the creature into a civilized and humanized being. As another example, the act of saving a girl from a precipitous river indicates that the creature is actually a good being. Unfortunately, however, people never try to look beyond its ugly appearance. The man who was playing with the drowning girl shot the creature when it approached them even though it saved the girl. Furthermore,
As seen from the creature’s perspective in Frankenstein, he realized his longing for love would never be accepted by mankind because of his distorted personal traits, and he could never seek peace after that which made him think that “all joy was but a mockery” and he “was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure” (Shelley Frankenstein 128). After being abandoned by his creator, Frankenstein, the creature found out in his journey alone that every being’s purpose was to find love or a group that will establish relationships with one another. He wondered when his love will ever come, but he was only beaten down by insults, fear, and neglect since he was a monster to anyone he encountered. Not only that, but the creature was even rejected by his creator for his “demand for a community” that will accept him, such as his own wife who would love him (Reese 50). With this, the creator did not want anything to deal with the creature to avoid the trouble he could cause that will make society blame Frankenstein for bringing such a hazardous being to town. The creature being shut away by his own creator and society for wanting to be accepted initiates the same conflict with Mary being forbidden by her father and family for loving her husband. She found herself as the monster from her emotional approach as she was treated like a burden for wanting
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, it all begins with a newly built Creature who was looking for a warm embrace by his creator, Victor. However, after the creature is abandoned and mistreated first by Victor his own creator and then by the De Lacey Family who he had trusted, the monster turns to revenge for this maltreatment. The creature goes on to feel as if it has been unfairly rejection by not only humanity and how they cannot see past his appearance but by his own creator too. The monster goes on to say, "feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom [and] I bent my mind towards injury and death."(Shelley), soon after Felix attacks the creature and flees with the rest of the De Lacey family and in return wants to hurt those
In the book Frankenstein everyone considered "human" rejects the monster based on his looks. To have everyone you've ever met reject you in such a strong way that they attack you is horrible in an almost indescribable way. Constant rejection and hatred being thrown in your face. With the kind of abrupt awakening that the monster had carved him into the "man" he is today. With sensory overload and no help to get started. He was left to his own devices in a world that wanted to kill him.
The monster seeked to find love from a companion and he never found this. No matter how much the monster tried to please humans, he never succeeded because humans only saw the monster’s outward appearance. Throughout the monster’s journey, he learns how shallow human beings are because they refuse to love him because of his hideous appearance. The monster's creator never acknowledges him, because just like the humans, he can not accept his outward appearance. The monster will never find love because he is
The monster exclaims,” But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thought; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him” (93-94). The monster is saying that his comparison was all a dream, he really wasn’t like him at all. He realizes that he is alone on this Earth and that there is no one like him. He has no one to make him feel happiness. He remembers Adam’s request to God, but he can’t ask his creator because he was abandoned. This made him so mad, that he cured the name of his creator. After finishing his story he ask Victor to do one thing for him. He remembers how Adam was alone, and then received Eve. Thus changed how Adam was, and the monster wants to be like him. The monster says,” I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. This being you must create” (103-104). The monster is trying to get the point across that he is alone, no humans will react to him in a positive