Frankenstein Human Quotes

There are many reasons that Frankenstein's creature can be considered human. One reason the creature is human is because of the way he relates so much to humans. One example, when talking about reading the Sorrows of Werter, the creature says, “As I read, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathized with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none.”(102). I think this quote shows how the creature understands and relates to humans, but knows he will never really be accepted in society because of the way he looks.”It is true that I am wretched. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing”(192). The creature knows what his actions are and what he has done to all those people that didn’t even do a single thing to him. He also says that doing these actions made him feel very guilty for doing the things that he has done.

It says on page 114” am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.” This proves that just like a human he needs another person to love him so he is not lonely. Another reason he is human is because he is made entirely of human parts. Frankenstein made him of human parts he had found and dug up. On page 37 it says”I collected bones from the charnel houses;and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.”This shows he was digging up bones and body parts from a graveyard and graves of dead people just to put them back together to make a