Theme Of Love In Frankenstein

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Someone once said, “No one can hate more than someone who used to love you”. In other words, hate comes from love. We hate the ones we once use to love, and that same love can be shifted towards hate due rejections of acceptance. Some say that hate is natural and other says it is taught. Though out the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, we see the same love and hate relationship between the creature and victor. Shelley provides numerical examples in which we see that the creature learns to hate because of Victor. Victor and the creature did not get along because Victor sees the creature as “The other” therefore the creature begins to view himself as such and begins to hate.
The creature was born into the world and he was thankful for that
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

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