Cruelty In Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, acts of cruelty serve as the driving force behind many tragedies within the novel. Set in 18th century Switzerland, Victor Frankenstein embarks on a horrifying journey to satisfy his growing desire to create life. However, Victor and his creation are overcome by their selfish agendas and growing hatred of one another, creating seemingly endless misfortune for their selves. The enemies' constant misunderstandings of each other ultimately turn an innocent victim into an inconsiderate and hate-filled monster.

What makes us human? Is it a beating heart and living flesh? Is it encompassing advanced psychological and social qualities? The classic gothic novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley and the modern horror novel, Warm Bodies, written by Issac Marion have lead many readers to question the complexity of human nature. Both novels explore several principal themes that develop the reader’s understanding of what it means to be human. We are miraculous creatures who are capable of both good and evil; humans are intricate beings who depend on love for survival, some can be troubled by or lack remorse, and in some cases, our actions can be motivated by fear. Throughout both novels, the main characters struggle with these aspects of human nature.

In Gris Grimly's Frankenstein, the author's language choices push the reader to share the disgust and hatred the Victor feels for the creature he has made. In Volume 1, Chapter 4, when Victor creates the creature and describes how it looks and how horrid it looked. In Volume 1, Chapter 4, Victor states the he "worked for 2 years" and has "deprived himself of rest and health." He also said that he had "desired it with a passion more beyond from self-control"(42). Then, when he had finished, and his "heart was filled" with "horror" and "disgust"(42). After that, he wanted to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. Now, in Volume 2, Chapter 2, Victor and the creature have an extreme argument against each other. Victor shows disgust to the creature

In the book Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the subject of discrimination because of looks appears in many instances. When Frankenstein created the monster and finally realized how it looked he was very disappointed. After the monster was spotted by the villagers, they were terrified because of the way he looked. The creature began looking for food and shelter and encountered a older man, whom he frightened. Looks seem to be a major subject throughout this entire book.

The story of Frankenstein showed three sides to the story, Victor's, the creature's, and the truth. The book was mainly based on Victor's perspective where he feels more hatred and antipathy with very little sympathy towards the creature. The author included little scenes with a huge part of the creature's side of the story that made readers feel pity for him. After all the controversial arguments, the is the correct side of the story and that is the truth. I believe that the author wanted the readers to decide whether to feel antipathy or sympathy towards the creature because both Victor and the creature have fault in what they've done. For every "right doing", came either disappointment or anger which always led to someone taking out their

When I merged to Chapter 6 from Chapter 5 my feelings went from being very sympathetic towards being very antipathetic. One of the biggest reasons why my feelings changed was the interaction between the creature and William. Which showed the creature strangling William to death showed by the image on page 13, showing William on the ground with two letter x's over his eyes resembling his death. However, the quote itself better explains more as it states "My enemy is not impregnable this death will carry to despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall destroy him", Therefore given the idea that the creature did, in fact, kill him.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be neglected by others? I haven’t but I have been a witness to many people having this done to them. We look at a study that states, “49% of students from grades 4-12 are bullied at least once a month.” As well, about 1,580 kids have died do to abuse and neglect. That’s about 4-5 kids a day. This shows us the harm that neglect has. In this essay, we look at results of neglect as well as what should be done when neglected. This essay all ties back to the book Frankenstein. The monster in Frankenstein, is neglected by his parents and his peers, which leads us to find a solution because I truly believe that neglect from peers and parents leads people to make harmful decisions.

Human nature is unchangeable. Human nature also applies to just about every living thing. Human nature isn’t so human, is it? In Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein, it is shown just how universal human nature is. In Frankenstein, Robert Walton tells the story of Victor Frankenstein through a series of letters to his sister, Margaret Saville, in different perspectives. Upon his ship on an expedition to the North Pole, Robert befriends a scientist, Victor Frankenstein. He reveals that he is looking for his creation, a being that was never truly alive, whom he bestowed life upon. He then tells an account of his life until it switches in perspective to the monster’s, followed by a switch to the present. In his tale, Victor tells of his early childhood, where he was an avid bookworm, and became enraptured by science. This led to him delving deeper and deeper into the world of science until he became a man obsessed. He dedicated himself to science and conducted an experiment to see whether he could bring life to a being that never had life in it before. Rather than being overjoyed at his successful experiment, he was disgusted. He came out with a humanoid resembling a monster. This disappointment led to Victor abandoning the Creation, leaving him to find his own way in the world. Given the proper care, the Monster could have succeeded, but Frankenstein's monster will not because the neglect from Victor, treatment by others, and the internalized self-hatred deign a

The concept of “torture” was implemented throughout both of the novels of Frankenstein and Stephen Kings: Cycle of the Werewolf. The word torture means the activity with regards to cause extreme agony on somebody to constrain them to do or say something, or for the joy of the individual dispensing the torment. In Frankenstein, Victor created his own torment by giving life to a monster whose sole purpose was to torture him for the rest of his life because Victor abandoned him and also destroyed the re-creation of his companion. As in Cycle of the Werewolf, it was a continuous nightmare where a werewolf comes to Tarker’s Mills every full moon to terrorize the citizens by slaughtering them. Both of these novels convey the theme of torture all throughout the plot by the actions of the murderous character.

Innocence, throughout time it is lost, varying from who and how much. Throughout the novel Frankenstein there is a central theme of loss of innocence, cleverly instilled by the author, Mary Shelley. This theme is evident in Frankenstein's monster, Victor Frankenstein himself, and three other minor characters that lose their innocence consequently from the two major characters loss.

His abandonment issues corrupt the Creature’s life as it causes him to seek a place he will be accepted in. His first positive encounter was with a blind man who was able to judge the Creature by his personality rather than his physical appearance. The Creature tells Mr. De Lacey, “they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but, unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions” (Shelley 159). The Creature is troubled by his appearance because it has gotten in the way of living a normal life. The Creature chooses to accept that Victor is the only person that can solve his situation as he seeks a companion that’ll join him in life. He may have started off corrupted, but the attainment of knowledge improved him.

As shown in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley people grow evil without the presence of others with which they can relate. If someone feels they are alone, their actions will stray from their good intentions, and soon their intentions will not be so good either. The awful deeds done by humans, including those done by Frankenstein’s Monster, are done because isolation drives people to malicious actions. Frankenstein, Walton, and the monster would all be better people if they had a companion to help them through their troubles. The actions of these characters in their solitude’s contrast to their previous actions shows that being alone is what make them evil.

In my opinion, my feelings changed from Chapter 5 from chapter 6 because At first I felt both sympathy and antipathy, but now, I just feel antipathy for the creature because it's actions were bad. According to Chapter 6, "in the pictures he saw a boy and the kid thought he was going to eat him but he says no and that his father is Frankenstein. " When the creature heard the word Frankenstein he snapped and choked William and made Justine responsible for his death in which she died too. This all was the creature's fault no one ever found out it was him until later on when the creature told his tale to Victor. Before this happened he was trying to make friends and I felt sympathy because he wanted to make friends and get along with others.

Power corrupts, and any person put into a position of power has the ability to be corrupt but also to corrupt those around them. Victor Frankenstein and Lord Henry are both in positions of power and influence over others, the creature and Dorian Gray respectively. The desire to control people, for power over people, creates systems that allow a select few into the position of control. These systems, that created a patriarchal society, are what allowed women to be considered less than human, possessions, with no autonomy outside of what is deemed correct by those in charge of those systems. The corruption is not limited to people; the arts act as a different means to the same end result. Abuse of power is so inherent that anyone in any circumstance

Raising the oppressed against their oppressor is by no means a new concept. Countless literary works have explored the relationship between, say, tyrants and their rebellious servants. Two prime examples are Prospero from The Tempest and Helmer from A Doll House, given their domineering and self-righteous demeanor as they fancy themselves the reinforcers of social justice. In contrast, their counterparts are Caliban and Nils Krogstad, respectively, whom are social outcasts that are not fond of the authority forced upon them. Both of these characters use their beliefs to actively subvert their oppressors’ power.