Never judge a book by it’s cover. You cannot come to conclusions about who someone is based on their image. What’s on the outside may contradict what’s on the inside. Who someone is will always surprise if you immediately make assumptions because of how they look. That’s what happened in the novel “frankenstein” written by Mary Shelley. There was a monster that appeared to be horrifying. He was so ugly, he scared off his creator Victor. He was so ugly all the townspeople feared him and drove him into hiding. He was never given the chance to grow and be around people. He did not have the option of learning how to communicate with other people. People deemed him as a monster, creature, and inhumane all because of how he looked. But he is shown to be just as much as a human as everyone else.When …show more content…
He wanted to be able to love someone just like the family he watched. He watched them and felt the love they had and the feeling of abandonment. And with the feeling of abandonment came the feeling of anger, fury, and revenge. He did what any humane person would have done. He went out for revenge on the person he felt has wronged him. As any person would do, he hit Victor where it hurts. He killed everyone that Victor has loved out of spite and jealousy. He was so jealous that William and Elizabeth was loved by Victor. He knew that killing them was going to really set Victor over the edge. He was also lonely just as any human would be if they grew up isolated. He was so lonely and 2desperate for an companion, he asked Victor to make another monster like him. This is another reason he killed Victor’s loved ones. He did it for revenge. He wanted to get revenge on Victor for denying him his chance of a shot at love. A shot at happiness. A shot at feeling wanted and being treated as an equal to someone else. A shot at having someone who understands him like no one else ever
He has been rejected and isolated from society which he copes with in a very destructive way. The monster turns to murder to speak out about his obsession. To support this the monster kills Elizabeth instead of Victor on their wedding night. This brings sorrow into
Victor then destroyed the bride he was making for his monster halfway through and then threw her parts in the ocean. This was the last straw for his creation as that was his last chance at having someone who would love him. He then goes and begins to kill everyone Victor loves so that he can get a taste of the loneliness the monster has felt his entire life. He hopes that once Victor understands he might pity him and therefore give him a chance at love. He just wants his father to love him.
In an attempt to scare the creature, the boy tells him that his father is M. Frankenstein and that he will punish him. The monster immediately recognizes this name as the one who created him to be hated and who has caused his never
Yes , Having a good family teaches you about love and kindness and the creature would have had grown to love each and everyone of the humans , without a loving caring family you grow up to be just like the monster did , cause you have nobody to teach you how to love or someone to just observe and learn stuff from them. The creature grew up without a family and through out his life everyone was treating him bad and he didn't know the gift of forgiveness so he let all his anger build up inside of him and when he finally let it out it wasn't cute. SO yes a loving family would have prevented all of this negtivity from happening. Without a loving family the monster began to search for love and when he figured out he wouldnt get love from the humans
The qualities of being a human are mostly mental traits rather than physical appearances that can often be polar from one another, such as someone who is extremely emotional yet calm in horrific situations. The creature illustrates some forms of acting human through his dialogue with Victor as they meet face-to-face. He says, “Thus I relieve thee, my creator... thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor. Still, thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion” (Shelley, 88). The human factors demonstrated are the senses of being placid and tranquil towards another person.
He pulls at the heartstrings of Victor’s emotions, but Victor can see the true evil that is within him. “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living being,” had mentioned the monster after Victor’s death (197). The monster claims that he was unloved, and he was right in that regard, but that does not form evil. Evil forms by the weakness of one’s mind, not neglect.
The Monster and Exile Every person in life is created with a strong sense of belonging. Whether the belonging is to a person, a place, or a moment in time, they still feel connected and influenced by it. Exile is an action that separates a person from this connected belonging, and can suffer great consequences, but can also enrich their lifestyle. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the creature creaked by Victor Frankenstein is forced, from the very beginning of his existence, away from his creator and society as a whole. This type of exile turned the creature into what he is, shaping his ideas and mentalities.
A character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude: The creature is a dynamic character. As he changes into a bad person from a good person to bad person. In the beginning of the novel, the creature is very kind to everyone. For example: He helps a girl from drowning in the river, He enters a village and hides in the hovel outside the house of a group of peasants of whom he grows fond.
He uses the little that he knows to fuel his hatred towards humans and his creator. This shows the exponential growth of the problems that Victor has created as a result of his desire for knowledge. Not only did he create the destructive monster, but now the monster is using a hunger for knowledge, the very thing that created it, to do even more damage. This root cause is linked to everything that is causing Victor’s suffering. The monster also compares his relationship to Victor to that of God and Adam, wishing that he had the same supplication to his creator that Adam did, “I remembered Adam’s supplication to his creator.
ENG-3U0 November 20 2015 Frankenstein: The Pursuit of Knowledge Throughout the course of their individual journeys, Victor Frankenstein’s extreme passion for gaining knowledge about creating life, Robert Walton’s curiosity to discover land beyond the North Pole and the monster’s eagerness to obtain knowledge about humans was the principal cause of each of their suffering. As such, In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the pursuit of knowledge is a dangerous path which leads to suffering. Victor Frankenstein develops a keen interest in discovering knowledge about living beings which ultimately results in his personal suffering as well as others suffering. To begin with, Victor embarks on an assignment through combining body parts and following various
Once the creature begins to go out on his own and learn about life and society, during his first interaction with other people he learns that he will be immediately judged based on how he looks. To start, when Frankenstein first sees the creature, he quickly runs away without any interaction and exclaims “no mortal could support the horror of that countenance” (Shelley 36). This interaction made the monster realize that even his creator could not avoid the habits of the society he lived in, and immediately ran away from him in fear because he didn’t believe he was attractive. Then after that, the creature still has enough hope to go into a village and meet other people, but he is immediately met with children that “shrieked” and one woman who “fainted” just at the sight of him (Shelley 74). In every situation where the creature attempts to interact with others, he is shunned immediately, before even being able to say a word.
The creature, referring to the monster created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, has a crave in establishing an actual relationship with human beings within his character. As the scene contains his interaction with the cottagers would suggest, he becomes interested in human culture and is amazed by how words can express pleasure, pain and sadness. He finds the naming of objects interesting as well, and feels delighted whenever he learns the meaning or when pronounced the word correctly. He decided to use the time which Felix taught Safie English to improve his own language skills, and the learning of the “science of letters”, grammar, has opened before him a field of wonder and delight. The reason why he became interested
He failed his parental duty to take care of his child and his needs and as a result he got Elizabeth killed. Finally, Victor learns that he has been in the wrong the entire time so he pledges to end his creation even if its the death of him. “I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! He is cold, he cannot answer me” (237).
The first time the monster took revenge on Victor was when he killed his little brother, William. This was not premeditated because when the monster first saw the boy, he was unaware that he was a part of the Frankenstein family. At the time, the monster was feeling really alone and depressed because anyone was frightened by how ugly he was. When he saw the little boy, the monster thought that he could befriend him because he was too young to be prejudiced. Instead of going up to the little boy calmly, the monster grabbed him and frightened him.
I had been walking down by the seashore late in the evening, and eventually came to rest on a rock which was high above the flow of the tide. I drifted off without realizing it, only to to be woken by a cold splash to the face. I turned to discover the source of the splash. The creature I saw perched on the rock beside mine was terrifying. It had thick, dripping locks of seaweed green hair, and shining silver skin with green scales speckled all over.