Another Ugly Life In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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.

This shows how, even though the creature and Adam are both creations, their creators are infinitely different. The creature, just like Adam, desired a companion as well, but it was not given to him. The creature demanded his creator to make him a companion. Frankenstein and God being the creators is one of their only

In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein should be depicted as the real monster for attempting to recreate God’s creation. Instead, it is his creation who has to pay the price for Victor’s wrong doings. While his creation pays the price, he still finds a way to become his own hero as well. It may go unsaid but the monster has the will to keep on going. Through his life he still finds a way to live. The monster in Frankenstein talks about himself for a bit and says this “ I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster (159.)” The monster tries to act right but it seems as if whatever he does his actions are misunderstood. Yet, like a child he is pure and unaware of his doings. The courageous step he takes is asking Victor Frankenstein to create him a mate to live his life with. The monster is aware of how fearful his creator is of him but still approaches him and is not afraid to ask for his request. It was a baby step into a new

According to the Oxford University Press, companionship is defined as, “friendship, fellowship, closeness, togetherness, amity, intimacy, rapport, camaraderie, brotherhood, sisterhood; company, society, social contact.” All these words form the idea of two people spending their time and life together. The idea of companionship is a necessity in life, because all different types of people and creations rely on the company of others. Without the company of others, people no longer act as they should in society. They no longer learn new things and they become outcasts. In the book, Frankenstein, the creature lives his life without a companion and the outcome is tragic. Companionship is a necessity in life, because living without a companion

This lead to the creature going off on his own to face a world that is terrified of him. The fear of these people upsets the creature very much and all he wants is a friend. He asks Doctor Frankenstein to make him

It is obvious that Victor Frankenstein couldn’t take care of the monster that he created in first place, so that was a lack of responsibility towards the creature and the risk that his family would be involved that he didn’t know about it. The years that he spent creating the monster and then abandoned after all, with all the interest that he had in chemistry and creating life from the death, based on how fascinated he was for life and his early childhood, that was marvelous, but in the end, was everything a waste of time for him and for the people who were with him, his family and friends. If Victor hadn’t chosen to create the monster and didn’t have this lack of responsibility, many lives would’ve been saved in the end. The irresponsibility that he had during his life, was the most important thing that results on all of those events in the future, and with that, a lot of consequences too.

I admire Victor Frankenstein creative ability to utilize his scientific knowledge to figure out how to create a man. In order to accomplish this goal, I am impressed at the inordinate amount of time Victor spent studying and learning how the body works in order to create a human monster. To me that’s impressive but Victor is extremely irresponsible by not including anyone when he is creating another human. He is selfish and careless in his scientific research. When Frankenstein comes to life he does not tell anyone about the human creature he created leaving the creature off into the world with no guidance. Victor’s irresponsibility of not understanding the capabilities of his scientific research and abandoning it makes him careless and jeopardizes society. The decision not to locate the creature and humanize

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is tasked, by the monster, to create a companion. This act is both selfish and destructive. It is selfish because when he agrees to create the monster he is doing so to get the monster to go away and for his secret to go unknown. The monster promises this when he states, “I shall become a thing, of whose existence everyone will be ignorant” (Shelley 103). His creating the companion would also have been an act of destruction. Frankenstein ponders over what this new creature might be like and realizes, “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate “(Shelley 118). He also considered the likelihood of the new creation not following the promise of the original and stay

This leads to his emotions, which he describes as envious for Adam and angry towards Frankenstein for neglecting him. The monster’s comparison of him to Adam ultimately leads him to the conclusion that he must also ask his creator for a companion to cure his own loneliness. I felt that the monster’s comparison was accurate, and therefore builds upon his argument for a companion. He and Adam were indeed both indeed lonely, and the only difference was that Adam’s creator, God, was there to help him and was able to create Eve to accompany him on Earth. This realization made the monster even lonelier and created negative feelings for his own creator.

Since the beginning of time humans have been designed to have companions, whether it be friends or family. This is something that all people know to be true, but what happens when humans do not have a companion? In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, there are three main storytellers, all of whom tell their story about the struggles of companionship from their own perspective. The first character introduced by Shelley is Robert Walton, an aspiring young scientist who travels to the Arctic to discover new territory. On Walton’s voyage he befriends Victor Frankenstein who is a scientist that devoted much of his time to chasing a monster he brought to life in his youth. The creature that Victor created is a tormented and miserable being who sets out to destroy Victor’s life after he realizes that he is going to be alone forever. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Walton, Victor, and the creature deliver three important

My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you [Victor Frankenstein] must create” (Shelley 129). The only thing that the monster wants is a companion. That is something that all people want. The monster has the same feelings that people do.

Doctor Victor Frankenstein decided that the best plan of action was to abort the creature that he was making, but he should have finished creating it. This might of allowed him to save the monster from killing his family and friends. We do not know how the creatures would have acted together if the second was not aborted. In Frankenstein and The Critics in the middle of creating another creature Victor, “Decides to kill the creature that he was working on before the creature was alive” (Shelly, 167). Many people believe that if Victor would not have done this then the creatures would have been able to destroy the world together. This all goes back to the beginning because Doctor Frankenstein abandoned the creature, and did not teach the monster anything. The creature did not want to kill all those people, but he did not know how to act. Then towards the end the creature just wanted a wife, so he could live in peace and be happy.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible feeling in the world, imagine not having anyone one to turn to, that no one understands you. This is exactly the way Frankenstein’s creature felt, his appearance frightened everyone around him his own creator abandoned him. It was not the monsters’ choice to be created and he faces the consequences of the creator. Frankenstein should create a companion for the creature because it is in need of love, affection and a friend.

In both the novel and the film Edward and the Creature longed for a companion. The monster never really got to have a companion. That was all The Monster ever wanted but his creator never made him one. The Creature tells Victor that the only way to stop his killings is to make him a companion, someone who he can live with that is like him, and will understand him. Victor agrees to make him a companion so the Monster would stop killing people, but Victor doesn't fall through. The Monster is so unhappy and doesn't like his life. He begins to explain things to Victor and tells him, “ I am malicious because I am miserable” ( Shelley 177). When he is explaining everything to Victor, he decides to make the Monster his companion. Edwards companionship is a little different. Edward was taken in by Pegs family and began to fall

“All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us” (Shelley 83). This passage is very enlightening as to how companionship or lack thereof can affect one greatly. The monster that Victor Frankenstein created was wretched in his ugliness. He felt as if “when [he] looked around [he] saw and heard of none like [him]” (Shelley 105). This ‘monster’ did not want be “a blot upon the