Who Is The Real Monster In Frankenstein

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Monster: An imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening. Victor Frankenstien, the creator of THE monster; the monster that everyone perceives as ugly, disgusting, horrible, terrifying, and a murderer. Frankenstien anandons his creation allowing it to run lose and cause chaos. The monster in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is perceived as all of the things a monster is supposed to be, however, this monster is filled with emotions and feelings that he acts on and cannot contain. Victor Frankenstien, the creator of the monster was s excited for his creation. He risked his own life to create this monster. His goal was to create something out of dead human body parts and make that come to life. While the monster was assembled and lying on the table, Victor thought he was beautiful. …show more content…

Victor wakes up from a terrible dream and the monster is standing over him. Victor hears some type of sound come from him but Victor does not stick around to find out: "He may have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, eemigly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs." (Shelley 48). After Victor runs away, the monster becomes very upset. He is hurt and very confused, especially since he has not seen himself in the mirror. That hurt then turns into rage. With the monster being so angry, he hunts down Victor. He finds out where Victor lives. But, once he is in the woods near his home, he meets a little boy. Not knowing this little boy is William, he wants to take him in order for the boy to love him. The monster wants to feel loved and needed. However, when the monster tries to take the boy, he refuses. William, the little boy, mentiones to the monster that his dad is Frankenstien. After the monster makes the connection, he kills William. Justine was close by when the monster killed William so the monster frames Justine for murder. He does that

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