Frankenstein Impact On The Monster

One main thing to consider is the Creature’s perspective and his development as a character. His experience with humans are unhappy and many judge the Creature solely on his appearance. As Victor Frankenstein abandons his creation, readers see the eventual evolution of the Creature and his spiral to a

In the book Frankenstein, we see that Frankenstein’s monster show great strengths and courage as he continues to go on with the story. The monster is original though to be bad but as the story progress he shows in some rare cases his strength not just physically which he succeeds greatly in but also mentally as we see him teach himself all the wonders of this world. Physically the monster is very strong and large we see in multiple situations that he uses his strength for good even though after he uses them people still run him out of town there home etc. In one instance, he feels bad for this very poor family and begins to help them gathering wood and food to make it easier for them to survive he does all this with not even talking to them and all in secret. Another time we see that he uses his massive strength to help a little girl from drowning even though most people would agree that’s a noble dee he was still shot at and ran out of town. Now with the mental strengths he has we see in the book that the monster becomes very intelligent within a short period of time. He learns the language very fast and begins to read books to help him better understand the human culture. In one instance, he actually has a full conversation with his creator describing to him in great lengths what his life has been like. That is the creature’s strength that are seen throughout the book.

Victor Frankenstein was obsessed with science and anatomy, and the balance between life and death while he was a university student. Frankenstein claimed to create the monster to better mankind, but it is more likely he created him out of the desire to become more like a God. “. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me; I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. (Shelley 54)” This is basically Victor explaining how he wants to cheat death and create a new race of species. Victor wants the creature to look at him as a God figure or as his ruler. The irony is that Victor never gives the creature a chance and that is the reason the monster did all the

While Creature is full of humanity and has a thirst for knowledge, his longing for acceptance in society is met with constant rejection. Through this rejection, it sparks anger into the Creature for his irresponsible creator, Victor Frankenstein. Creature’s anger leads to greater tragedies for Victor. The greater of the tragedies are the murdering of innocent people including Victor’s family that is seen to be the fault of Creature since he is the one who murdered them. If Victor did not abandon the Creature and had taught him murder was not morally correct, Creature would not have committed the heinous acts.When Creature was first theoretically born, he was introduced into the world in a very harsh way. Metaphorically, Creature starts out into the world as a newborn, needing a parent 's guidance and teachings. Victor abandons him immediately with no sense of direction. Creature, after his “birth”, approaches Victor with a hand of longing for compassion. “He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they maybe called, were fixed on me...He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out” (Shelley 35). Victor instead of showing acceptance immediately runs away at the sight of him.

The creature from Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" displays many different human qualities. Some of these qualities include: the creature's ability to learn, his capability to feel pain, his desire to be accepted, and his need for affection and sympathy. The need for affection and sympathy is something which the creature is unable to attain. This unrequited desire to be accepted causes the creature to be the victim of the novel. The creature is never given affection by human society because of his physical deformities, Dr. Frankenstein's denial to create him a mate, and the creature's violent behaviour.

The Creature’s words and final testament set aside the view of him as a monster and fully embrace sympathy and compassion for his misery. His final words before declaring his death, call out the bias in Frankenstein’s telling as he begins to affirm the benevolence in him: “Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal when all human kind sinned against me?” (214). The Creature pleas for understanding and compassion for his own misery caused by humans, he presents his experiences as being no less of an injustice than his deeds against Frankenstein. His words present a view of him that was previously missing of his monstrosity as a reaction to the misery placed on him by his creator and other humans. Hatch notes the fact that the Creature’s “last words [are] addressed to his dead creator” and thus “the monster's solitude is complete” (7). Without any further suffering or misery, the Creature decides to kill himself, and even after the creature leaves the scene, his disappearance is described as “lost in darkness and distance” as a reminder and final call for compassion for the Creature and his

Easily one of the most notable themes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the role of nature versus nurture in developing children, recurs throughout the novel with the two main characters, Frankenstein and his creature, believing in opposite sides of this theme. Favoring nature, Frankenstein maintains that the creature was always evil from the moment of creation, regardless of the creature’s experiences. However, the creature, in his narrative to Frankenstein, argues that “[he] was benevolent and good; misery made [him] a fiend” (106). In adherence with John Locke’s concept of tabula rasa, the creature was born with a blank slate, and only through his experiences does he gain knowledge and personality. Struggling to persevere in the human world, Frankenstein’s creature merely wants humans to welcome him as one of them. The change of the creature from looking “upon crime as a distant evil” because “benevolence and generosity were ever present” in him to seeking revenge on Frankenstein results from a culmination of horrible experiences (103). While it may be hard to see the creature as a trustworthy narrator because of how he has acted and his ulterior motives, he does present physical evidence to support his tale. Facing rejection in different forms, he becomes truly evil, giving up hope of companionship as a result of his trials and lessons. From the moment of his creation, the creature encounters abandonment, violence, isolation, and rejection everywhere he turns.

monster avoid pain again and how he is able to sit and think about how

In the novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, the creature and its creator, Victor Frankenstein, share a lot of similarities throughout the story. The relationship shared between the two resembles that of a father and his son. Since Victor created it , the creature inherits certain traits of Victor’s without realizing it. Victor and the creature both have an overpowering thirst for knowledge, a love for the beauty of nature and a tendency to use it as a scapegoat, a depressing feeling of isolation from people, a desire for revenge, and the ability to play God. The relationship between Victor and the creature does not develop like a normal father-son relationship, nor does it develop as a good versus evil relationship. Both characters show hero and villain qualities throughout the novel as their relationship develops.

After being abandoned by Dr. Frankenstein, Creature wanted to be accepted by mankind. However, his grotesque appearance was enough for society to isolate him. The physical and psychological characteristics that a society finds difficult to acknowledge as “normal” is what monsters embody. Because people made snap judgements about who Creature was, Creature started thinking of himself as wicked and evil. The circumstances he was placed in incited fury within that turned into physical violence. Creature referred to Dr. Frankenstein as a “cursed creator”, and “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled [his] bosom, and [he] did not strive to control them; but allowing [himself] to be borne away by the stream, [he] bent [his] mind towards injury and death” (Shelly 138 and 140). He became a powerful and threatening force. Creature fed the evil wolf and became more of a monster than just his physical semblance showed. By murdering innocent victims, he only fueled the monstrosity within him causing it to be his paramount

This creature would then learn how to speak and would be able to comprehend the things around him and during these experiences, he would learn the emotions of rage and hatred for humanity for their treatment towards him. In spite of Victor Frankenstein, he kills William Frankenstein, Henry Clerval, and Elizabeth Lavenza, all in attempt to making Victor Frankenstein feel the pain that the creature had gone through. The creature was not at fault for any of the murders of William Frankenstein, Henry Clerval,

The creature was created by a man named Victor Frankenstein, who abandoned the creature right away. The creature had to face the pain and confusion of being brought into a world full of strange sounds and vibrant colors. He had to learn the nature of the world all by himself. Because he was alone, he had to rely on his primal instincts and learn to survive by trial and error. During the time of trial and error, he went to a village. At the village he suffered as well as brought on suffering to others. His appearance was so horrifying that it brought on the village’s suffering. Women fainted and men feared for their lives because the deformities of the creature made him appear like a monster. While the village suffered from fear of the creature, some villagers threw rocks and sticks at the creature as well as force fire into the creature’s path (Shelley 136). Thus, the creature also suffered. The horror

What are the creature's views on society? How about its views on justice and injustice? Society shapes the way we view ourselves and people. Frankenstein's creation journeyed throughout the book around society. In this novel, we view how Frankenstein's creation was viewed by society.

The main idea of our project was to try and recreate one of the scenes in the book by making a short movie. Each one of us had a role - Kaloyan was the director and filmed the actual scene, I was Viktor and Georgi was the monster. We thought for some time which chapter was crucial to the plot, and we finally chose the one where Viktor destroys the female monster. This moment in the story is significant because it allows Viktor and the monster to talk face to face. Moreover, the decision that Viktor made showed how he took responsibility for his creation and not let humanity suffer for his mistakes - “ I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race”

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein portrays one of the darkest, most hopeless situations that could possibly occur due to the monstrous deeds performed by the main characters in the novel. When one thinks of Frankenstein, they generally think of Victor’s creation as being a monster, and the cause of the unfortunate events that occur in the novel. While Victor’s creation is indeed a monster, Victor is equally as monstrous in his actions. While both characters are initially innocent, they are being constantly corrupted throughout the story. Both Victor and his creation become monsters through their actions.