Frankenstein Monster Monologue

As I was walking along the shore, as I do most mornings while the sun was just coming over the horizon, I noticed some sort of mountain that didn't previously exist. It was long and didn't appear to be sharp. I rounded one of the corners and discovered that something was a bit peculiar. This was no mountain. No, it is a living creature!

Frankenstein was a scientist who thought that the world was a secret, which he desired to discover in the scientific field. He worked to find out the relationship between humans and animals. He was attracted by the structure of the human body, any animal related with life, and the cause of life. One day, Victor Frankenstein made an experiment where he included many different human parts from different dead people. This resulted in a human being and a strange creature never seen before in life, which made Frankenstein very scared. This creature or monster was tall enough to scare people by his height and with muscles that were well proportioned.

“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love.”

The Creature begins to show curiosity as soon as he is created. He starts to observe the people and see that their actions are slightly different than his and he learns everyone has their own way of doing everything. Eventually the creature starts to gain interest in the way humans communicate and he strives to learn to communicate with them. The creature learns to speak through small lessons that he observes given to Agatha from Felix. “My days were spent in close attention, that i might more speedily master the language” (Shelley 50). As the Creature is learning how to speak he also is catching on to learning to read. “I also learned the science of letters as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field for wonder and delight.” (Shelley

Letter 1 Explain what is established in the first passage/letter who is narrating? Why is he making this voyage? When and where is this taking place? To whom is he writing the letter?

Victor Frankenstein worried about everyone else and playing God, rather than trying to do right, morally. Victor had to go through a lot of steps and difficulties to create the monster. After the creation of the monster, everyone including Victor abandoned him. Victor refused to create a girl creature to avoid a lot of problems, but he did not realize the hell the monster would end up causing him. Victor regrets trying to play God because his action would cause him great troubles and consequences.

Frankenstein was first published in 1818 which was two years after she got the idea. In Mary’s life she went to Switzerland to carry on with her life but a year later she gave birth to a child which unfortunately passed away. This period in her life then haunted her for the rest of her life until one year later used it as a story in a contest. In this book Shelly used a literary technique called Foreshadowing; foreshadowing are small indications of what is going to happen in the book for example ““One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race,” which foreshadows what the price Frankenstein will actually

Scanning my mind and listening. The creature could be a vagabond, an upright being without wings? Two arms, two legs, incomparable to any other animal. Why was it not speaking English ? Was it trying to convey something? What kind of reaction was it looking for? What circumstances could this encounter lead up to? Was the encounter premeditated, meant to be chaotic? Incomprehensible? But in actually, it is a reality. Did the creature have wings? When the creature came closer it was becoming determined to have our attention, it's not disputed. Yet it draws suspicion, specifically the creature did not impart itself completely, but stays on the inner edge of darkness hiding his corporeal self, simoustanly encroaching himself on us. However,

In chapter 10 Frankenstein encounters the "monster" in the top side of the mountain, Victor Frankenstein yells at the monster in disgust and tells the monster to not come near him as his hideous figure abhorred him. Victor says ". "Devil," I exclaimed, "do you dare approach me? Be gone, vile insect!"(203 Shelley). Within the second paragraph of chapter 10 page 203 we are able to see with clear depiction of who the monster truly is.

"Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother" (tears came into his eyes as he spoke); "but is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society." (78)

In Chapter 10 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster employs an array of compelling rhetorical questions to underscore his anguish and despair in the hopes of winning his creator’s sympathy and understanding. Upon enduring Victor’s barrage of execration, the monster fitfully cries out, “Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?” (Shelley 81). Distraught, the monster demands for what higher purpose does the arbiter of his future whimsically desire to torture and “increase” his “misery”. Like clinging onto a frayed rope, the monster hopes that his pitiful coagulation of naive optimism and sorrow has the ability to trigger a sense of sympathy in his creator that would mark the end of his isolated and disheartened state.

Page 1 of 2 Far away setting- “I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage” (letter 1 Walton) Far away unexplored areas like the Artic were very mysterious to people of the 1700’s. This setting creates a tense feeling for the reader because they don’t know much about where the characters are and what could be hiding there. Dark and gloomy places- “We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices,

In the passage Shelley skillfully paints an intense image in the audience’s mind. Although it should be an exciting moment for Victor, Shelley purposely makes the scene dark, drab, and dreary. She chooses illustrate this scene in a sinister way because this moment is only the beginning of the horrors come. She achieves her dark image by incorporating details such as the lighting, weather, time of day, and even the time of year. All of these details come together to effectively paint a vivid picture of Victor and his creation as he breathes life into it. The imagery in this passage also greatly affects the tone of the passage.

Mary Shelley creates a murky and ominous mood in chapter 5 by using descriptive language and pathetic fallacy when she describes the setting. She writes: “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplish of my toils’. This shows the time and the weather of the day that victor finished making his creation. It was very spooky and bad weather, al it was a dark night. Furthermore, it also told that ‘ It was already one in the morning, the rain pattered dismally against the panes’; Victor was still working on his experiment until the morning.

Fictionally, the greatest-written villains in history possess attributes that give them cause for their behavior, with the most universal and essential of these core traits being a deep, personal backstory behind their acts. For instance, in classic stories like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Monster presents thorough reason to its Creator in terms of why it has turned to wickedness. The Monster does not kill purely for the sake of being evil, its actions are resulted from its desire to be loved by man, yet failing at every attempt to achieve it. Motivation behind monstrous acts is necessary in works of fiction because non-fictionally, people labeled as monsters by society possesses motivation behind their actions as well, whether it be