Frankenstein By Osama Bin Laden Character Analysis

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A child's worst fear is to find a monster under their bed or in their closet. In the 21st century, some monsters have been identified. An example was Osama Bin Laden, the man who organized the attack on the World Trade Centers on September 11th, 2001. He killed 2,996 people and left more than 6,000 wounded on that day, and also became the most wanted person by the FBI soon after announcing he organized it. Bin Laden was a monster because he killed innocent people and then boasted about being responsible for it. In the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, there is such a monster. The creation is a monster because he shows no sympathy to anyone, including when killing innocent people, and taking pleasure in another's misery.
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After the creation traveled through the woods with hopes of finding Victor, he stumbles upon a little boy. He grabs the little boy but because of his great size and stature, the boy starts to scream and call him a monster. The creation is set aback by this and the boy warns him by saying his father M. Frankenstein, is a syndic. Immediately, the creation recognized that this made the boy Victor Frankenstein’s little brother, William. The creation yells, “Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy-- to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim [...] I grasped his throat to silence him and in a moment he lay dead at my feet” (Shelley 131).William died because the creation wanted Victor to feel pain and despair. William did not do anything wrong, the only reason he was killed was because he was related to Victor. He was an innocent boy, who died a terrible death because the creation wanted to get revenge on William’s brother, Victor. No normal person would have a heart to kill an innocent child whose only crime was being related to Victor. Only monsters retaliate using innocent victims to payback for others’ “crimes.” Had Victor loved his creation and taught him how to express his emotions and live in society, the creation would have adapted to societal norms. Victor admits, “In a fit of …show more content…

After Victor agrees to make a female companion, he travels around until he finally gets to Scotland. He begins his work on the female companion here. While Victor is making a female companion for the creation, he starts to think about the reality of what he was doing and how wrong it was. Victor shuddered, “to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of that existence of the whole human race. I trembled and my heart failed within me...” (Shelley 156). Victor Frankenstein is tormenting himself by creating a female companion. He is in agony when he thinks of the repercussions the forging the female companion, all of these make him miserable. As Victor is thinking of all these troubling scenarios, he notices turns around and sees “...by the light of the moon the demon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed upon me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted me to do. . . . As I looked upon him, his countenance expressed the utmost malice and treachery” (Shelley 156). The creation was stalking Victor, and basking in his despair. He enjoyed watching Victor feel anguish and distress. He was grinning because it pleased him. No normal person likes seeing people suffer, and be tortured, only monsters can find joy in someone's misery. In spite of the

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