Analyzing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '

The creature still having a good heart and giving humans one more chance quickly saves the girl, but then is violently acquainted by her father. The father without any questions aims and fires at the creature leaving him wounded. The creature then ran off to the woods to seek shelter. The Creature cries, “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of the wound which shattered the flesh and bone [. . .] I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” (Shelley123). The creature has already withdrawn from participation and avoids all human contact, but he still suffers the consequence for aiding the young girl to safety. The creature already had enough obstacles but now to add more fuel to the fire, he will be seeking revenge from humans. He will now close any possible doors that may have opened for him, just because he is full of hatred. Society is also going to be hurt by this because he will never trust or save a human again in fact, he wants to kill them now. This act triggers the creature to seek revenge against all mankind and has tremendous consequences not only for society but the creature

The human consciousness is closely tied to the role of suffering, and one can even say it causes suffering. We can see that this is true in the creature’s case because his suffering first started when he was betrayed by his own creator. At this point, he was subconsciously aware of the rejection, however the creature still had hope that he will one day be accepted. His pain was further intensified when the cottager’s chased him away with a stick. This was the climax of the creature’s story because he was able to come to the realization that he was different. “From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion. I had never yet seen a being resembling me, or who claimed any intercourse with me. What was I? The question

Unfortunately for the creature, the need for friendship and love is not met by the people he longed to receive it from. He is cast out by his “friends”. This halts his progression up the ladder. This does not stop the creature though. He decides to try again to gain love and recognition from human beings. As he is walking along a river he sees a young girl slip and fall into it. “I rushed from my hiding-place, and, with exreme labour from the force of the current, saved her … when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic … on seeing me … he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired3 (143).” Unlike the previous two attempts, as the creature is deprived of reaching the next need. Yet all hope is not lost for he believes that there might be one last opportunity to get his need of love met.

The above quote portrays the few moments after Frankenstien had given life to his creature. He had spent a few years working on this project. It can be compaired to a person giving birth to a child. By nature he wanted his creation to be beautiful. When he realizes that his creature is not a beautiful sight, but in actuality a grotesque looking being, he runs away. He does not spend any time nuturing his "child" , because the abnormal apperence of the creature has scared him away. From this point on the creature is doomed to receive this type of reaction from any one who sees him, because human nature is to fear the unknown. The creatures creator is afraid of him. This is like a

He longs for a companion who will understand him and who will not mistreat him. The last moments of compassion dies within the creature when his creator destroys the companion he promised to create, and the revenge continues from there. Even though the creature commits awful crimes, he also commits acts of kindness.

The creature began to converse freely with the blind father who addressed him with kindness. However, when his two children returned, the daughter fainted and the son "dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick" forcing the creature to "quit the cottage and escape unperceived to my hovel" (115). These acts of cruelty emphasize how often humanity stereotypes individuals. Just because a creature looks monstrous does not mean his intentions match his appearance. After this heartbreaking event, the monster decides to stop seeking love and instead to seek revenge against his creator and attempt to force Victor to create a companion for him. The creature attempts to explain his cruel ways when he exclaims, "There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my

The creature was completely alone. His own creator could not tolerate the sight of him and deserted him. He was left with nobody. The monster explained that he was a "poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing". He had to discover survival,

“Finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction…I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery” (Shelley 125-126).

The creature claims that the creation of a equal partner like himself would make him happy. The creature proclaims, "my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existance and events, from which I am now excluded" (121). In this speech, the creature tries to provoke sympathy from Doctor Frankenstein. However, because of his previous acts of violence, his request is denied. This agonizes the creature: "Shall each man...find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have a mate and I be alone?" (140). The result of these constant rejections that the creature becomes violent and therefore cannot be blamed for his violence. The creature's desire to be given affection and sympathy can only reside in another being like himself since he has been denied by the world around him.

Throughout the book observations can be made of the creature's feelings of how they develop such as emotional feelings like misery clearly stated by him "How can I move thee"? I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but I am I not alone, miserably alone?"

The creature does not receive affection. Despite these unfortunate beginnings, the creature asserts that he was good, despite the absence of guidance and parenting until he encountered society. The monster first encounters physical sensations such as hot, cold, dark, and hunger. This period is the creature’s infancy state. He later learns through experience to distinguish, understand and handle these physical sensations. His sensitive experiences enable him to learn to care and sustain his being.

In the beginning of the creature narrative he describes a cottage he found the supplies around it. However as soon as he realized who owned the supplies he did not want to take them anymore. “The traits of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store… when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained…” (78) This starts to give the reader a glimpse of the creatures kind-hearted character and how he does not want any of his actions to have a negative impact on people around him. He does chores for them and wants to help them out he never wanted to hurt anyone because he believed kindness was the right way of living. “I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labors… during the night I often took his tools… and brought home firing sufficient for the

He gives the creature a gigantic frame and grotesque figure.  He never considered how such a creature, being so different, would be able to coexist with human beings or live a normal life.

As a result of Victor's neglect and rejection of the creature, society also denies the creature acceptance which creates a life of loneliness for it. The creature, after being rejected by Victor, is left helpless, wanders into a forest, and experiences what hunger and pain are for the first time in life. The creature longs for acceptance, especially from Victor, but is denied. For example, the creature first learns of its rejection from society when it enters the house of an old man that is cooking; it as at the sight of the creature that the man "shrieked loudly" (90) and runs out of his hut. From that moment the creature realizes it is deformed and unlike anyone else. While the creature is roaming through the woods one day it comes upon a cottage. The creature notes the inhabitants of the cottage, the DeLacey family, as being beautiful in comparison to its

When the Creature first started living near the De Lacey’s, he was innately good and humble. He believed that they were greater than him and could not understand why anybody would look as sad as the De Lacey’s seemed. All he wanted to do was make life better for them,