Frankenstein Depicted In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein’s Creature, completely abandoned by his creator, concludes that he must harm everyone Frankenstein loves so Frankenstein will truly know how lonely and unloved he feels. The Creature systematically murders Frankenstein’s family and friends – William, Clerval, and Elizabeth – much to the detriment of Frankenstein. Since the Creature is a product of Frankenstein’s work, he feels responsible for his loved ones’ deaths, further influencing the novel’s tragic vision.

After the death of Frankenstein, the Creature is met face-to-face with Walton, and here the Creature meets his final challenge of communicating and addressing a human who might have compassion for him. Upon seeing and hearing from the Creature, Walton experiences similar reactions as Frankenstein upon first communicating with the Creature. His physical appearance once again stains with utter disgust any attempt at showing benevolence: “Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness. I shut my eyes involuntarily” (Shelley 211). Once this reaction takes place, the Creature’s words do cause a small time of wavering of compassion for Walton, although ultimately he does reject the Creature once

The monster notices that humans are afraid of him because of his appearance, he feels embarrassed of himself, as humans do when they don’t seem to be accepted. He admires the De Lacey Family that lives in the cottage, he also learns from them, and hopes to have companion as they do. The monster is like humans, as mentioned, in the way that he wants someone to listen and care about him. He is discovering the world and his capacities, he seeks knowledge and understand plenty aspects of life by learning how to speak and read. “The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys” (Shelley 47). The monster developed feelings and emotions as humans. The creature is different from humans also, since he never got to grow up as a normal human, and

Throughout the novel, “Frankenstein,” the “monster” was seen as hideous. As a result, many including the creator himself did not give the “monster” a chance and portrayed him as evil. Rather than looking at his personality, they looked at his outward appearance, which scared them off and made them assume he was a “monster.” When readers, including myself, read this story, we feel disappointed about how during this time everything revolved based upon looks and not on what really mattered like charisma. Overall he is portrayed as an evil, scary creature. When Victor describes him he is so harsh and cruel it makes him seem to be a monster. “He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks,” (Shelley 59) this phrase proves how when Victor describes the monster he did not care to think about what the monster was trying to say because he was too scared of his horrible looks.

The Frankenstein monster is often portrayed in the movies as unemotional and violent: a barely functioning behemoth. However, these depictions are far from the canon storyline. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, the creator of what shall be called the Creature, was actually rivaled in empathy and joie de vivre by his wretch. Throughout the story, the Creature showed more compassion and emotion than Frankenstein, but committed multiple monstrous things after facing neglect and trauma.

What is a monster? The word "monster" causes one to imagine a hideous, deformed or nonhuman creature that appears in horror movies and novels and terrifies everyone in its path. More importantly, however, the creature described generally behaves monstrously, doing things which harm society and acting with little consideration for the feelings and safety of others. "Thus, it is the behavior which primarily defines a monster, rather than its physical appearance"(Levine 13).

Once Victor Frankenstein manages to bring to life the horrible creature, however, Frankenstein regrets his action immediately after seeing this hideous and gigantic creature; Victor then becomes frightened and flees to his home. The monster instantly became infuriated at the sight of his creator leaving him, the monster felt abandoned and alone. When Victor returns, he finds the monster has vanished and that the monster murdered his brother. The monster yearns for a female companion to become happy and implores Victor to create another monster to keep him company. Frankenstein agrees to create a female companion and then destroys it instantly with the thought of him creating another monster like the one he had already made. The monster watched Victor create and then destroy his new female companion, which drives the monster to kill the rest of Victor’s close friends and family in an attempt to make Victor to suffer as he does. The monster wants his creator to feel the pain and isolation as the monster has his whole life. The monster continues to search for love and Victor suffers as the result of his immoral actions. Victor Frankenstein returns home to his father after he was rescued at sea, where he shortly after, dies of grief. The creature then realizes that his monstrous ways was not the answer to his pain and suffering, the creature mourns over his creator and then dies as well. Killing the monster is not always the

The Novel of Frankenstein begins with a series of letter. This first letter is written from Robert Walton from St. Petersburg, Russia to his sister Mrs. Saville. Robert Walton him self is the captain of the ship and he is headed to North Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean. In the first letter, Robert Walton tells his sister about his preparation up to his departure. Robert Walton also tells to his sister that he desires to aim for great purpose. He recounts that he will travel to Archangel, Russia to finish his plan. He tells his sister that if he succeeds he will not comeback home in some months and if he fails he will comeback home sooner or never. Robert Walton feels sad for his own ignorance that he needs to improve himself and expand

In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is the true monster, not the creature himself.

The creature relates to Dorian as they both act unruly and engage in acts that Society refuses to agree with. Both are responsible for multiple deaths, and are responsible for ruining other's lives until they both commit suicide. They even commit murder. The creature achieves this while learning who he is and Dorian attains it by virtue of his own choice. The creature is trying to discover himself and Dorian bases his life off of the pursuit of forever youth and beauty. Both destroy everything in their paths to reach their ideal life. Physically, the creature relates more to Dorian’s portrait than Dorian himself. Dorian possesses hubris attitudes and also Hedonism developing from his excessive confidence in is physical appearance, while the

Frankenstein has a perfect childhood in Switzerland, with a loving family that even adopted orphans in need, including the beautiful Elizabeth, who soon becomes Victor's closest friend, confidante, and love. Victor also has a caring and wonderful best friend, Henry Clerval. Just before Victor turns seventeen and goes to study at the University at Ingoldstadt, his mother dies of scarlet fever. At Ingolstadt, Victor dives into "natural philosophy" with a passion, studying the secrets of life

After the monster killed Elizabeth on the night of Victor and Elizabeth’s wedding, Victor will vow he was going to kill the monster. Following the monster north through the snow and ice, Victor falls ill and dies. “On a voyage of scientific exploration,

In Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft’s novel, “Frankenstein”, it opens with Robert Walton's letters to his sister of his fantastic voyage to discover the North pole passage. He is presented as an established Englishman who is cultured and is in search of “some great purpose,” (Frankenstein letter 1) which would be either discovering the passage, secret to earth's magnetism, or merely just finding undiscovered land. In letter two and three Walton reveals that he is lonely and longs for a friend, He also shows that he has a romantic side and that he has a “love for the marvelous, a belief in the marvelous” (Frankenstein letter 2).On the short letter 3 he merely says that he has departed once again on his journey. Finally in the fourth letter, as he

Upon rushing home to Geneva, he is locked out of the gates and sees his creation, who he realizes is the murderer. Justine, their maid, is tried for murder and executed. Victor retreats to the mountains, where his monster approaches him. The creature then tells the tale of his life and how grew to become the being that he has become. They then reach an agreement to build the monster a companion to fulfill his yearning for a mate. Victor travels to England builds his second monster, which he then discards in the sea. The monster vowed to ruin Victor’s life by killing everyone that he loved.The next day, Henry is found murdered (by the monster) and Victor is put on trial and falls ill. He is proven innocent and returns to Geneva, marries Elizabeth, and moves out to the countryside to live with

The story opens and ends with the letters of an explorer named Robert Walton, who is searching for the source of magnetism in the northern polar regions. There he finds and rescues Dr. Victor Frankenstein from certain death in the icy ocean. While he is recovering, Frankenstein tells Walton the story of his life. Set within Frankenstein’s narrative and Walton’s letters is the first-person story told by the creature Frankenstein created. Frankenstein, a young man from a happy family in Geneva, Switzerland, becomes obsessed with the idea of bestowing life on inanimate matter. He studies chemistry and new theories of electricity at a German university. With this knowledge and with body parts from corpses, Frankenstein creates a large manlike being and brings it to life with an electric spark. Finding the creature grotesquely ugly when it is animated, Frankenstein runs away from it. The creature quickly disappears. For months afterward, Frankenstein suffers from what he calls a “nervous fever” in which hallucinations of the creature torment him. After his recovery, Frankenstein learns that his young brother William has been murdered near the family home in Switzerland. A young woman who lived with the Frankenstein family is unjustly accused and hanged for the child’s murder. On his trip home, Frankenstein sees the creature and realizes that he killed the child. Frankenstein seeks solitude high in the Alps, and