In many high schools, there is an unspoken social order amongst peer groups; teenagers are either included in the popular group or the unpopular group. These social standings are determined by the popular group whether they will accept certain people based on shared interests and values but mainly on appearance. For example, some groups may isolate a student who does not have clothing considered to be attractive enough. Teenagers belonging to the popular clique label individuals as outcasts who do not fit the clique’s standards of a perfect appearance. This repression can cause a build up of anger if an outcast seeks to be accepted into that popular group. Literature displays this social phenomenon of categorizing people too; author Mary Shelley After being chased out of the cottagers’ house, he is overcome with fury at humanity and his creator. The creature exclaims his desires: “All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin” (Shelley 138). This demonstrates the creature’s monstrosity because he desires to destroy the joyful lives of others so they must experience the same pain and emptiness humanity has made him feel. The creature first seeks revenge against the De Lacey family by burning their cottage down after the family attacked the creature and fled in fear of him. After this act, the creature turns his vengeance on his creator. The creature displays his hatred toward Frankenstein for leaving him immediately and not providing guidance and protection in this harsh, new world by murdering his family and friends. While seeking his creator, the creature first murders Victor Frankenstein’s youngest brother William and exclaims, “I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him” (Shelley 144). The creature wishes for Victor Frankenstein to suffer taking his own companions away, forcing him to be miserable as well by destroying his personal relationships with others by murdering loved
High school can be a place full of cliques and groups of friends but some people aren’t always in cliques. If there is a person who doesn’t always like the same things as other people they might not fit in with a group of people. In high school a person may become different and not find a group of friends that they fit in with. With no group of friends a person in high school may start to become an outcast. Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of Speak used Melinda to show that any high school student can become an outcast.
There was no one left to provide the creature with companionship and was forced to isolate himself from society once again. When the family moved out of their cottage, the creature decided to go on his own adventure and seek out his creator. Upon doing so, the creature encountered a young girl who was about to drown near a lake. When the creature successfully saved the little girl, an older man confronted the creature and shot him in the shoulder. Because of what happened, the creature explained to Frankenstein that his, “...daily vows rose for revenge-a deep deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish [he] had endured.” (Shelley 61). With this burning rage, the creature decided to take his revenge out on his creator, Frankenstein. One by one, Frankenstein’s relatives and closest friends were murdered by the creature, but his father’s death, was the final push. Frankenstein believed that he was the cause for all the murders and that he had to destroy what he created. He told Walton that, “...as [he] awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.” (Shelley 88). The only way to stop future deaths, was to hunt down the creature and kill him. Fueled with hatred, Frankenstein traveled for months in hopes of finding the creature. However, in his final days, Frankenstein was no longer able to continue his search, and passed away due to malnutrition. Upon discovering what had happened, the creature came out from hiding, and decided to explain his side of the story to Walton. Now that Frankenstein was dead, the creature decided to wander off and slowly die, isolated from the
In Volume 2 of Frankenstein, the Creature’s repeated experiences of rejection unleash the “monster” in him and lead to the destruction of the De Laceys cottage. Through the portrayal of the “monster” inside the Creature, Shelley argues that loneliness caused by lack of human relationships will drive an individual to do harmful actions. Throughout volume 2, the Creature had been secretly living alongside the De Lacey family. He grew attached to them the more he spied. The creature finally decides to reveal himself to the De Laceys. As he does that, the family runs away in fear. After all that happens the creature says “My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time, the feeling of revenge
The Creature becomes more than just a villain who commits monstrous acts, but rather a human-like creature who possesses sensibility and profoundly suffers due to consequences outside of his control. His sensibility reinforces the invitation of sympathy, first shown as he pleads for his creator 's understanding: “ Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” (93) The Creature recognizes his misery, ...Frankenstein, as what has caused him to become “a fiend,” yet he wishes to become better and not succumb to the monstrosity he is capable of. He acknowledges his own malevolence but also expresses his demise as a response to humanity’s maltreatment of him. Before beginning his tale, the Creature directly invites the compassion of Frankenstein: “Still thou canst listen to me, and grant me thy compassion” (94). The compassion he asked from Frankenstein would also apply to the reader, and thus his audience is prepared to allow themselves to feel sympathy for this “monster.” The Creature’s story to Frankenstein offers a rationale for his monstrosity in a way that also attempts to
There was no one left to provide the creature with companionship and was forced to isolate himself from society once again. When the family moved out of their cottage, the creature decided to go on his own adventure and seek out his creator. Upon doing so, the creature encountered a young girl who was about to drown near a lake. When the creature successfully saved the little girl, an older man confronted the creature and shot him in the shoulder. Because of what happened, the creature explained to Frankenstein that his, “...daily vows rose for revenge-a deep deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish [he] had endured.” (Shelley 61). With this burning rage, the creature decided to take his revenge out on his creator, Frankenstein. One by one, Frankenstein’s relatives and closest friends were murdered by the creature, but his father’s death, was the final push. Frankenstein believed that he was the cause for all the murders and that he had to destroy what he created. He told Walton that, “...as [he] awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.” (Shelley 88). The only way to stop future deaths, was to hunt down the creature and kill him. Fueled with hatred, Frankenstein traveled for months in hopes of finding the creature. However, in his final days, Frankenstein was no longer
After leaving his hovel at De Laceys place, he travels to Geneva and sees a boy outside his hiding place. The Creature decides that this boy isn't old enough to realize ugliness and picks him up. The boy struggles and exclaims that his ‘dad’, M. Frankenstein, will save him. The Creature is enraged at this child, “‘Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy - to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.’
Adolescent years are a time period in a human beings life where we search for a place that we are most comfortable. It is a time where we try to find friends with similar interests and those who will easily accept us for who we are. Once we are accepted by those friends, we tend to do more things with hopes of getting approval from “the group.” Trying to fit in during adolescence is a significant factor for self-motivation because it determines the level of being accepted and popularity amongst our peers. Through our year of adolescence we experiment and try to discover oneself as a person, but we also find what our strongest traits are that are used in order to be accepted, or to feel more popular. Popularity is defined as a state of being liked or accepted by a group of people (cite). As the group of people gets larger, so does that person’s popularity. For some people, popularity may come easy due to their charisma or looks, but there are those children who feel lonely due to their lack of popularity.
When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base. I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine. (Shelley 88)
In the previous chapter, Frankenstein describes his rejection from the family which he observed, and the emotional impact which this has on him is outlined in this chapter (8). Frankenstein describes the factors which fuel his rage, and his desire for revenge, as he acts out violently and destructively. The chapter begins with Frankenstein explaining his emotions, saying, “The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to
The creature's violent behaviour causes him to never achieve the sympathy he desires and therefore never achieve mutual affection. Despite the fact that the creature is driven to violent acts, his violence cause Doctor Frankenstein and Walton to believe he is untrustworthy. Dr. Frankenstein decides that he will not make the creature a mate and states: "have you not already shewn a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?" (121). Sympathy is almost aroused in Walton: "I was at first touched by the expression of his misery; yet when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers...indignation was rekindled within me" (188). However, the creature's evilness does not dismiss the creature as a victim because, as the creature states, "Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested" (105). Therefore, although the creature commits evil acts, he is still a victim. In addition, it is as a direct result of the creature "finding myself unsympathesized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me" (111). This p...
As preteens and teens push for increasing independence from their parents, they tend to turn to their peers for guidance, acceptance, and security. For those who are low in self-esteem and confidence, their safety lies in fitting in and having a place to belong. Most people find a group in which they connect with in a healthy way while others make their way in cliques that give them security but at the price of their own values and individuality. The movie Mean Girls portrays how high school female social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. I will argue how if one doesn’t have a strong sense of self-identity, the opinions of others will become their identity.
...d it humorous when people run from the creature because of it outwardly disgusting appearance and it appears to not have a reasoning mind but that is what makes the creature differ from the typical monster. His intelligence is almost on par with Victor’s and the creature is much more intelligent than the people that chase him. The monster’s motives are always either a cry out for love, a tantrum of anguish, or a retaliation of revenge. He cried out for anguish after the Da Lacy family fled from their cottage after their encounter with the creature and then the creature his sophomoric outburst by burning down the cottage. A retaliation of revenge was when he goes on a Frankenstein hunt and kills Elizabeth, William, and indirectly Alphonse. He also kills Victor’s best friend Henry Clerval. He is trying to find love when the he ventures into the villages and tries
The creature was created as a clean and uneducated slate, as he knew nothing upon awaking in Frankenstein’s chamber. But through his journey of discover her comes across the De Lacey’s who he observes and learns everything from words like “fire, milk, bread and wood” to “a cursory knowledge of history” in hiding (139, 148). The creature’s education is pure as he learns by observing an open learning environment, but his knowledge causes him great distress as he learned the “system of human society” and how social class, wealthy and title can create vastly different lives (149). The creature begins to question is part in society as he “possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property” and knew that he was viewed as “hideously deformed and loathsome” (149). However, he believed the De Lacey’s could “overlook [his] personal deformity” once they became “acquainted with [his] admiration of their virtues” (162). But his attempts proved futile as his conversation with the father De Lacey interrupted by the family. Felix, the son, “tore [him] from his father… and struck [him] violently with a stick” (168). This interaction with a family the creature deemed with compassion and honesty, lead him to believe on one could love him. The creature became angry and hateful towards his creator and all humans, as he “gave vent to [his] anguish in fearful howling” and fled into the woods. The creatures vengeful attitude led to the death of many in Frankenstein’s life, including his brother William, a house maid and
The creature shows sympathy through his actions towards the DeLacey family. When he understood that stealing food from the DeLacey’s had negative consequences, he states “but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighbouring wood” (Shelley, 107). In addition to sympathy, the creature shows many emotions, for example, during a conversation with Victor Frankenstein, he becomes self-aware of his physical appearance and falls into despair; the creature states “I sickened as I read. Hateful day when I received life! ' I exclaimed in agony. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?" (Shelley, 126). Another human characteristic demonstrated by the creature is the mental capacity through his extreme intelligence. The creature mastered the native language and history in a year whereas it takes others longer. One may argue that this incredible intelligence contributes to the inhumanity of the creature; however, he does not possess the intelligence to create a companion for himself and instead relies on Victor Frankenstein for the creation of a mate. Furthermore, the creature shows desire for companionship, for example, when he stumbled upon an inhabited cottage in the woods, and after observing the individuals living there, he stated, “I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but I dared not” (Shelley, 105). This sentiment exemplifies the human characteristic of
Adolescence and high school years are marked by the development of identity, relationships, and societal roles. It is during this time that adolescents begin to place a significant amount of importance to whether they belong or not, their physical appearance, and friendships. During this time, everyone experiences being labeled or classified into a category that more than likely, they do not belong to. This is because society tends to place people in groups according to hobbies, personality traits, and common interests. In most cases, stereotypes motivate this kind of behavior. For example, there is a saying that says, “Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.” In other words, your companions say a lot about who you are as an individual. These assumptions are what