Misjudgment In Frankenstein

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein displays how one can be judge by his appearance. In her story, Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who challenge nature and discovered the secret of life, created a hideous monster whom everyone fears. Frankenstein’s monster in the book is assumed to be dangerous and heartless because of his image. People misjudgments create a feeling of rejection in the monster which leads to violence in the plot.

When people came in sight with the monster, they were frightened by his appearance. As humans, we often judge others or things and jump to our conclusions before seeking the truth. Victor Frankenstein, the man who created the monster, was horrified by his creation. After Victor's work was a success, he stated, "I started

Every human that the monster came into presence with reacted negatively towards him. In chapter 11, the monster described his feeling to Victor of how hurt he felt to be left alone and hated by everyone. When the monster awaken he was like a child who is confused and lost; there was no one to guide him or teach him anything. All he needed was someone there for him, but everyone was afraid of him. The monster described his experience when he visited a village, “One of the best of these I entered; but I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country, and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village. This hovel, however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance; but, after my late dearly bought experience, I dared not enter it” (page 74, Shelly). Since the incident, the monster was decided to keep himself away from the village and people, he was afraid of them. Also, he once saves a girl life from drowning but a man thought he was attacking her, so he shot the monster, this made the monster feel awful and misjudged. He was trying to do deeds, but no one