Frankenstein And Poison Heart: A Comparative Analysis

So the monster was left alone with no one to raise him. The monster was furious with Victor. The beast made it his goal to make Victor feel the alienation he felt. For example, the monster was expressing his feelings to his own conscience. He stated he was going to seek revenge.“Cursed, cursed creator!

I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst.” (Shelley, 193) After all the vengeful events and tragic deaths, the monster faces his creator and asks forgiveness. This demonstrates, once again, his ability to love and his innate goodness, knowing that forgiveness is his only hope. However, since Victor is dead, his pleas are met with silence. Essentially, all hope for the monster’s ability to survive is now dead. Without hope, he turns back to evilness and blames Victor for his own

Which leaves him with no friend or somebody to turn to once again. It is also important to see how “Paradise Lost” and the biblical allusion of Satan relates to the monster. The monster tells Victor that he should be his “Adam”, but soon realizes that Victor hates his creation. He now resembles Satan, the banished and horrifying creature. When readers see the monster as Satan, it brings the theme of isolation and how the monster scares Victor, which makes him feel more alone than ever.

The monster describes his first experience as being "endowed with perceptions and passions and then cast abroad for the scorn and horror of mankind" (Shelley 119). This is describing the monster's first awakening in which he knew nothing. Upon coming to life, the monster yearns to learn, feel, and communicate with others just like any other human would, but he was cast aside by Frankenstein to fend for himself. This use of diction

Feeling lost and unwanted, the Monster vows for revenge against his creator, Victor Frankenstein. As the climax of the novel approaches, we see that the Monster has killed Henry Clerval, a childhood friend of Victor’s, and Victor’s wife Elizabeth. The theme

I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death” (Shelley 142). This understanding of killing would lead to the destruction of Victor Frankenstein. As the monster vows to get his revenge on Victor by taking away everything that he had ever cared about or love. As the monster, would kill accidentally kill William Frankenstein for mocking his ugliness. Doing so would frame Justine but not before leaving clues to his creator.

He calls on the “spirits of the dead” and “wandering ministers” so that the “cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony” and feel “the despair that now torments me”(179). The monster is also capable of wanton destruction when he burns down the DeLaceys’ house and dances “with fury around the devoted cottage”(123) like a savage. Finally, the monster seems to enjoy the pain he causes Frankenstein: “your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred” (181) he writes to Victor. Were these pieces of evidence taken out of context, the reader would surely side with Frankenstein. But Shelley prevents such one-sidedness by letting the monster tell his version of the story.

Dreanna Hypes Lit comp per 7 Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, tells the horrific story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist devoured by ambition, seeks to revive life to the deceased. Thus, a horrific monster is created. Terrified of its unsightly stature, Dr Frankenstein flees his creation, neglecting it severely a result, the monster. Lonely and depressed, seeks revenge on his creator, killing several members of his family and his closest friend. Throughout shelley uses imagery and toner to amplify the horror In the novel, Imagery is presented so the reader can experience the terror alongside frankenstein.

(Shelley, 137). Unable to cope with the stress and unexpected tragedy, Frankenstein’s father died not long after. These sudden loss of his loved ones brought nearly overwhelming grief and anger, for Frankenstein considered himself to be the source of the assassinations. “How have I lived I hardly know; many times have I… prayed for death.” (Shelley, 142). Frankenstein took off restlessly in pursue of the monster, following him into the punitive, icy realm.

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, there is a message that is pervasive throughout the entire novel, and emphasized in different points in the book. This message, one that can not only relate to the novel, but modern day society, is the importance of human interaction and connection. Never getting exposure to positive human interaction, the monster is enthralled with the concept and it ends up being the sole thing he craves. He goes to vast extents to receive any contact at all with the human race; he kills innocent people, stalks a family, grabs kids in forests, and bargains his creator’s life in exchange for a companion. His actions force the reader to inquire, “What would the monster not do for just one person to communicate with?” The creature himself proclaims that his “heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy.”, but as time advances and the monster comes to the realization that society will never accept him for what he looks like, not because of who he is internally, he loses all faith in his perception of society as a convivial, welcoming environment.