Essay On Search For Justice In Frankenstein

Due to Victor’s failure to take responsibility of the monster and take care of him despite his needs, the monster fails to acquire the basic virtue of hope. The monster develops a sense of mistrust and fear with no confidence with the world around him. The monster may develop anxiety and heightened insecurities.

Justice is a word that can have multiple meanings because everyone has a different definition for it. Some say that life is a search for justice and that we are supposed to find it. In the novel Frankenstein many characters have a strong sense of justice, but I will only talk about the creature. I will relate what the creature’s sense of justice is, and how it relates to the book as a whole.

The constant challenge in which Victor faces is that he never seems to consider the results of his creation possibly backfiring. When Victor begins to study the creature as it becomes animate he sees the dull yellow eyes of the creature open, then his yellow skin which hardly covered the work of muscles and arteries underneath, his lustrous black hair, and pearly white teeth which forms a horrid contrast with his watery eyes: “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (43). Victor’s dedication and time that he had devoted into this creation results into a terrifying and unwanted creature. No longer does Victor hold the feeling of confidence and excitement through the end of his creation of the creature.

person to unleash such a terror on the world to benefit only himself and his

How important is the theme of justice in Frankenstein. Refer closely to the creation scene and Justine's trial scene. Justice is defined as justice is the administration of law; especially : the establishment or determination of rights according to the rules of law or equity which can be interpreted as adhering to laws of both a natural and civilised level. In Frankenstein many of the fundamental laws of both humanity and the world we live in are broken. Creation in he Christian faith is a marvel that only one being or person has the right to control.

To define life as a “search for justice” opens up many different doors and views of life and a human’s - or not so human’s - life. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley contains some very distinctive examples of justice, injustice and the way a character responds to how justice serves towards them.

First, Victor’s irresponsibility of taking care of the creature causes the misery and torment he experiences, ultimately affecting the creature’s demeanor. Furthermore, the creature is initially good before he faces the injustice that mankind has in store for him due to his appearance. On the other hand, Victor’s desire for isolation

One of the most controversial questions in the novel, Frankenstein is if the monster is really a monster. Osama Bin Laden once said, “We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent” (CNN.com). This quote is very similar to when the Monster states, “I will revenge my injuries …. I will work at your destruction" (Shelley 104-105). Both, Osama Bin Laden and the monster commit very similar crimes and murders; yet, a Navy SEAL kills one and the other is let free. Osama Bin Laden was the most hated man in America for years. When the monster commits almost the same offenses, most audiences pity him and question whether he, the monster, is a real monster or not. Why is this? In the book, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley demonstrates the manipulative acts of the monster and the lack of justice in order to prove that sympathy is almost as powerful as innocence.

     The challenges of race, class, and cultural privileges are frequently questioned, and how a person is perceived by society often is decided upon by these aspects. Although it is an everyday occurrence that a person is judged by what color their skin is or how much money their family has, it is a topic that most feel too uncomfortable to examine. However, Mary Shelley had the courage to verbalize the pain and suffering that results from oppression and judgment. She lets the reader delve into the mind of the subjugated, and in doing so she allows them to challenge the traditional ideas of cultural privilege, race, and class. It is proven that looks determine the way a person is perceived by the contrasting

Victor has the ability to love, and to be loved, and the creature doesn’t but wants to be loved and feel love. Victor is a coward to the creature and in certain moments of the novel you begin to feel the need and want of what the creature wants and his anger towards Victor. He gave life to the creature, and he feels like he should be responsible, like a father. I guess that makes him an orphan in a sense. He was created, and given life, just to be left and abandoned.

Fairy Tales such as “The Frog Prince” or “Beauty and the Beast” teach children to not judge by appearances, a necessary lesson to all the characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In this story, Victor Frankenstein brings a monster to life, hideous in appearance but—in the beginning—pure of heart. As the story progresses though, the many injustices wrought upon his person cause the monster to wish misery upon Frankenstein for the neglect and pain caused. In reaction to these injustices, the monster utilizes unjust methods to get his justice, leaving many of Frankenstein’s loved ones dead because of his sins. Due to the monster’s fluid understanding of justice, his quest for justice is constantly changing and while he finally realizes his goal,

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has many main ideas, whether it's about injustice, feminism, parental responsibility, the danger of too much knowledge, the cost of revenge, the relationship between man and God, etc., they all serve a certain purpose. Out of all of those main ideas, the one that sticks out the most is injustice. Injustice comes from the Latin phrase that represents “not right”, and it is the practice of being unjust or unfair (Injustice - Dictionary Definition). Throughout the book, Mary Shelley wanted to show that injustice is caused due to the fear of what is different (“Shelley, Mary - Justice and Injustice”). Many characters in this story all have different characteristics, whether it is due to their look, personality, childhood, current situations, and more. A lot of the characteristics that differ from each other have led to many injustice situations. Even though injustice might not always be bad, many examples of unnecessary injustice are shown throughout “Frankenstein” due to undeserving punishment, violating the rights of others, and unfair treatment.

In the very beginning of the story, Victor struggles with the notion of whether to undertake such a task as creating a being in the likeness of himself. He

Through the course of Frankenstein Victor learns a great deal about what is right and what is wrong. Throughout the novel Victor makes subtle and drastic changes, slowly but surely the ethical man he once was soon becomes nothing more than a thing of the past. The creation of his monster brought about the demise of himself and his family. In Frankenstein Victor’s morals and personality warp and change for the worse, he had once been a wise, promising, scientist, but little by little he became nothing but vengeful and angry. Due to Victors poor ethics he created artificial life that in turn constructed his demise, he gradually changed for the worst in accordance to his overwhelming stress, guilt, and hatred for his creation, and his refused to right his wrongdoings by making the monster a female companion so he’d flee Europe and leave humanity be.

Along with the notes, the creature finds three books in the woods that also have a tremendous affect on the comprehension of his self-image through the ideas and comments they suggest leading him into a new light of understanding. One of the books that had the most emotional effect on Victor’s creation was