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What Is The Moral Of Frankenstein

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The book Frankenstein by Merry Shelly implements different lessons and ideas. Throughout the story, we learn about how causes always end with their effects, with one leading up to the other. Many takeaways received from this book contain the overarching idea of isolation and its impacts, especially revenge. From the very start, the idea of creating life fascinates Victor. He wants to feel powerful, remembered, and worshipped, which ultimately leads to the creation of the “creature”. Bizarrely, the limbs of different corpses make up the creature. When the creature comes to life, and Victor gets a glimpse of his handcrafted creation, tremendously scared, he attempts to sleep and wakes up to nightmares, which then leads him to leave the house. …show more content…

He feels great sorrow for the treatment shown to him by his creator. The creature feels great pain and heartache for the lack of compassion and companionship shown to him. This leads to the death of William, Victor’s younger brother. The creature wants Victor to feel the pain he dealt with while facing isolation in this new world. He wants to show his creator that he too possesses power and thinks he can show this best by acting out those he cares for most, his family. When William first comes into contact with the creature, he screams in shock, for which the monster then finds out, shares the last name of Frankenstein. Ammediately the creature strangles William to death, and Victor hears about it in a letter from his father. The monster finds Justine, the housekeeper, sleeping in the hayloft, and from there, he plants a picture that he found in William’s pocket, into the dress pocken of Justine. Justine then gets framed for the murder and sentenced for excecution. Victor knows his creation did this but does not interfere because he doesn’t think anyone will believe him and that it would cause more chaos. The two people gone, may have remained alive if the creature didn’t feel the need to seek out revenge for the rejection and loneliness he …show more content…

This shelter contains a hole and cracks from which he easily observes the family living there, who he soon learns to refer to as the Delacey’s. From watching, he learns about the financial struggles of the family. Before he stole food from them, but when he realizes this, he stops at once and even gathers wood at night, for their use. The creature learns new things such as their language, how to read, and even some history. This entire experience teaches him about the importance of family and other relationships, for which he doesnt feel or know at all. Time goes on, he learns more, and eventually finds papers from Victor’s journal in the clothes he took from the apartment, which he can now read. This enrages the creature, the way Victor talks about him, and what his creator wrote. Caught up in these feelings, he decides to reveal himself to Mr.Delacey first, while the other three go out, hoping that he will accept him, but the others return early. They then attack the creature they find themselves terrified by, and the creature disappears. This family gave him the first sense of companionship he ever knew and hoped that they would accept him for his true charatcter. Nonetheless, they rejected him, just as his creator previously did, which lead him to living in loneliness

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