Society and the Making of a Monster: A Study on Frankenstein

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Everyone Is A Monster

In Frankenstein, Marry Shelley uses emotional intensity and nature as refuge for her main focus. She tells us that nobody is born a monster, it is society personal view what make you who you are. The Monster was on his own ever since the beginning. He tries to be a good civilized person more than once and fails. Victor shows us what all society will think of him right in the beginning of the chapter. No one is born a monster it is civilization and society who makes us who we are.

Anyone who brings someone into the world should love them unconditionally and keep them safe. "The innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct
People who are blind sided by what everyone else is thinking or see also changes the perspective of others. The old blind man De Lacey said the to Creature, "They are kind they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but unfortunately, they are prejudice against me" (162). To have the Creature to be able to talk to someone without being afraid of his looks gives him a chance for the old man to get to really know him without being frighten. This gives the Creature emotional satisfaction of affection that he has never gotten from anyone else. When Felix walks into the door he jumps into conclusion and thinks that this has to be some type of monster and has to save his father. He starts beating the Creature with a stick and the Creature thinks to himself, "I could have torn him from limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained" (164). The Creature shows that he is a human being and has feelings, when he decided to not kill Felix. That is because he would feel guilty about how old man De Lacy would be devastated that his son would have died. The Creature is not the real monster, he was a victim of society what they portrayed him as. Victor was the evil mastermind who made the same mistakes as his parents. Mary Shelley uses these two as a comparison where they both go to the mountains to find themselves and have a peace

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