Eight feet tall and also hideously ugly, the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is rejected by society. However, his monstrosity results from his grotesque appearance and from the unnatural way he was created. Which involves a mix of stolen body parts which helped his rebirth of life. The creature is born like a newborn; despite his size, he knows nothing of the world or what his life be holds of him. The creature's mind is a "blank slate" and he only learns to be good or bad from his experiences. Therefore, he is not born good nor bad, but learns the bad behavior we see in the novel from Victor Frankenstein. The monster's creator Victor Frankenstein himself is a monster, as his ambition, and selfishness alienate him from human society. …show more content…
Instead of excepting him and letting him feel loved, they run and hide and make rude comments towards him. The rough life of the monster could have been prevented if society and Victor would have accepted him in the first place. Giving him affection ad showing him someone cares would have made a whole lot of difference to the creature in the future. Society teaches us that beauty can only be in one form. Anyone else who is different is considered ugly and disgusting. They should have accepted the creature in his natural way and thought of him as unique and different in a good way. They should have never made him feel so horrible about his self …show more content…
So he can have someone like him and look just like him. Someone to love and care for him. This other creature would not judge and would not be in fear. They would be just alike and would have each other to listen to one another. As Victor is about to make the female creature he stops and looks over at the monster and sees him smiling. Victor sees this smile as an evil smile. I say the smile as a smile of relief. A smile that meant the creature would finally have someone like him and he could finally be happy. Victor changes his mind and does not make the female creature. This enrages the creature and now all he wants to do is destroy his creature. He does not understand why he can not be happy when everyone else around him has happiness. Why does he have to be alone just because he is different from others? "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy."
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein describes a mad scientist by the name of Victor Frankenstein and the initially amiable creature assembled by him. Through questionable means of experimentation, this monster is constructed through the reattachment of several cadavers and a bolt of lightning. Upon achieving the magnificent feat of reanimation, Victor, rather than revelling in his creation, is appalled, abandoning the creature. The physical appearance of the monster terrorizes everyone he meets and is unfortunately shunned from the world. The newborn monster develops a nomadic lifestyle after being ostracized by nearly every community he travels to, but eventually finds refuge near a secluded cottage. While returning from a nearby forest, the creature
The creature later went on a journey looking for his creator, he wanted partner to be with him since he was the only one of his kind plus the people hated him. He wanted a partner whom he could live with and not feel alone in this world. When they first encounter themselves victor was amazed by his creation but once again victor did not wanted to see.” Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants
but Victor thought to himself and says “I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, torn to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.” (Shelley 124 )Victor making the decision to not make another made the creature furious but Victor had his reasons like what if the creatures create more what if he doesn’t leave him alone just what ifs. He worries about making another creature because he wonders if the female would be as bad as the creature he first created. Victor does not make the second creature and tore it apart. Abandoning the creature caused him to learn for himself.
The confrontation between the two demonstrates Victor 's weaknesses as an individual. Although Victor is the Creature 's creator, he refers to his creation as an "abhorred monster" (Shelley 68) and is willing to "extinguish the spark which he so negligently bestowed" (Shelley 68) upon him. This demonstrates Victor 's lack of responsibility. His goal was to create life, essentially to play God. Once the monster began to murder those dearest to Victor, he failed to take responsibility for the creature 's actions. Another weakness in Victor 's character is revealed through the dialogue exchanged between creator and creation. Instead of calmly trying to reason with the Creature, Victor lashes back at the Creature. He even suggests that the two "try their strength in a fight in which one must fall." (Shelley 69) The monster, however, maturely and eloquently urges Victor 's "compassion to be moved" (Shelley69). Because Victor is full of "rage and horror" he wants to destroy his own creation even though victor is playing god in recreation of humanity. They both are to blame due to the fact that Victor created the creature as well as the signs of irresponsibility between the two for the Creature killing people and for Victor trying to recreate
In the novel, Frankenstein, a doctor named Victor Frankenstein created a monster. Victor’s monster was created using old human parts, chemicals, and a “spark.” Victor wanted to create this monster in order to benefit mankind, and for the purpose of playing God. Victor thought his creation would turn out great, but in all actuality, his monster ended up terribly wrong (Shelley, 145). The monster was a deformed man, standing eight feet tall, with yellow eyes, black hair, black lips, and skin that did not conceal his internal features (Shelley, 144-145). Even though the monster was very grown, he had the mind of a newborn child, and he was very kind and gentle (Shelley, 327). The monster’s appearance terrified Victor, and he immediately abandoned it. Dr. Victor Frankenstein also never named his creation because he disliked it that much. The monster was longing for love, and since no one loved him, he became very violent. He ended up killing Victor’s brother and best friend out of pure revenge (Shelley, 193). Anytime the monster tried to help people, he was bea...
After Victor destroys his work on the female monster meant to ease the monster's solitude, the monster is overcome with suffering and sadness. These feelings affected his state of mind and caused him to do wrong things. He did not deserve to see his one and only mate be destroyed.
A knowledge, especially one concerning what is right or wrong, good or evil, can be derived when knowing what is done. The monster knew the action of murdering others through rage from his creator, Victor. Thus demonstrating evil within the monster. Rage of his creator via story,proves enough information. At first it seems that the definitions of good and evil are clear. The definition of good in the dictionary is a person who has good moral and kind and loyal. Victor Frankenstein perfectly describe this early in the book. Evil can be defined as anything that impairs a person 's happiness or deprives them of any good; anything that causes suffering of any kind to sensitive, such as injuries or damages beings, this opposed to good, death is
Even when Victor rejects him, the monster still seeks love from society and performs unselfish acts. He seeks the love from others. Longing for company, the monster stays in the cottage without revealing him and watches the family that lives there. By watching them he learned how to speak and read. The monster tried to understand the meaning of “beauty”. He somewhat understood why people he had interacted with had treated him ill and he realized that it was because they were frighten by his hideous appearance. “The absolute other cannot be selfed, that the monster has properties which will not be constrained by proper measure”(Spivak). This goes back to the idea of “other”, now the monster himself understand that he 's different from human, that he doesn 't have the properties as human do so he must be interior to them. Furthermore we see that by watching the family in the cottage, the monster soon starts to love the family. He liked the way they had affection and love they had for each other. “The gentle manners and beauty of cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joy”(Shelly100). This shows that the monster was very loving and caring towards the family as would a innocent
From the beginning of Creature’s creation, he was doomed to a life of agony, depression, persecution, and loneliness. His appearance alone gave way to challenges that no human should ever have to endure. Creature’s very creator, Victor, called him horrid, a monster, a demon as well as many other cruel names. Victor’s harassing nature is an incredibly important aspect of this case; therefore it should be taken into consideration when evaluating who the true monster of this story is. Upon the Creature’s first moments of life, Victor stated that his heart was filled with a “breathless horror and disgust” (Shelley 45). What chance did this poor creature have if his own creator, or father if you will, could not even accept or love him. Moreover, Victor’s carelessness upon this creation was of his own purely selfish desires. There was little thought put into the life that the creature would have to live, thus providing us proof, that he did not care that this was a person he was creating. There is no defense for this, especially since Victor himself stated that he
Victor has a lack of respect for the natural world that leads him on the path to becoming a monster. In creating the monster Victor is trying to change the natural world. He is trying to play the role of god by creating life.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, may not exactly qualify as a “hero,” but is still a fitting figure for a piece of literary advice. Thomas Foster advises to “never stand next to the hero,” well, in this case, the characters in Frankenstein should, “never stand next to the main character.” The characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein play a pivotal role in the life of Victor Frankenstein by shaping the person he is at a young age, giving him reasoning to be concerned with his actions, and by being the reasons he can personally grow and bring about change in himself.
When the monster became sick of not being loved, he tells Victor that he was planning to get his revenge on him . “I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth”(Shelley 173). If the Victor showed the monster love from the beginning then the monster would have no reason to plot revenge against him. Victor breaking his promise caught up to him because the Monster found him and killed his wife. “I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardour, but the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished. The murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips”(Shelley 242). Victor should have took the risk of creating the monster a companion because now he doesn’t have a wife. The monster never wanted to be a monster but the way society treated turned him into
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein we are introduced early in the story to one of the main characters Victor Frankenstein and subsequently to his creation referred to as the monster. The monster comes to life after being constructed by Victor using body parts from corpses. As gruesome as this sounds initially we are soon caught up in the tale of the living monster. Victor the creator becomes immediately remorseful of his decision to bring the monstrous creation to life and abandons the borne creature. Victor describes his emotions and physical description of his creation as follows:
Victor Frankenstein starts off innocent, curious and science-loving. After he creates his monster, he realizes the horrors of it, as he abandons it, even saying that "a mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch (Shelley 60)". He finds out the implications of his creation, as the monster begins to kill his family. He transforms from the normal to abnormal, eventually becoming a revengeful, guilt-driven, mad scientist wanting to destroy his monster. He becomes a psychological monster, as he first appears to be normal-looking. However, he becomes sickly and exhausted following his creation of the monster, his physical transformation reflecting his psychological. He has transitioned from the creator to the destroyer, losing all of his humanity, as he becomes obsessed with his goal of killing the monster. He devotes his life to destroying the monster, giving him a Christ figure appearance, even saying "I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction (Shelley 248)." The monster's perceptive of Frankenstein shows the monster comparing himself to Frankenstein, realizing that both have become very similar. The monster views Frankenstein as a monster, as he abandoned him to suffer through the rejection and isolation from
In the story Frankenstein, Frankenstein creates a creature. So the creature doesn’t know any better than to think that he is a regular human being. But, he is not he is very different from normal humans. His appearance is the first thing that you can notice about him that is monstrous. He has all