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He is oblivious to the fact that his appearance is horrific and has no knowledge of the concept of evil because he has had no exposure to society (Edwards). The monster does not know that civilized man views his ugly exterior as representative of evil within, so he is baffled when the occupant of a hut he stumbles upon produces a terrified shriek and runs away (Shelley, 105). The monster later comes to know good and evil; virtue and vice; due to the fact that he possesses the faculty of "perfectibility – man's inexhaustible ability to improve himself (…) and be shaped by his environment" (Edwards). This quality of adaptability allows for enlightenment to occur, but is ultimately the source of all of man's misery.

Imagine not having someone to care for you and you end up being a bad person. Just like how the monster felt in the book Frankenstein by Marry Shelly. Evil is bred because you can't just be born and automatically say that you're a bad person. Some event had to occur in order to feel evil. The monster wasn't an evil person because there was events that happened that changed his personality.

The monster tried to make friends and meet people but as soon as he would try and talk to someone they would run away and be scared of him. One of the main reasons that the monster caused terror is that he was misunderstood by people. He was actually a kind monster but nobody would get past his looks (He actually conducted himself nicely). They decided based on his appearance that he was murderous and intimidating. For example, in the novel, the monster was talking to the blind man then, “ The cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick” (Shelley 161). The blind old man could not tell that the monster was ugly and intimidating so he had no problem with him, the other cottagers saw him and they immediately got scared of him and beat him with a stick. He spent his life alone, with nobody to talk to and he became envious of other people. That is why he killed people, not because he is mean, but because he had no way to control his anger

In fact, he was quite the opposite. When the monster was first created, he was curious and just wanted to learn. Not quite aware of how malicious he really looked, he traveled to a nearby village. "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village." (74) When he entered the village, due to his physical appearance, the women fainted and the children screamed in terror. This monster, though, was not a cruel being. He was, in fact, looking for food, and for companionship, something nearly every living creature has in life. Whether it is the lifelong mate of a swan or a pod of dolphins swimming in the wild, all creatures have the universal need for companionship. So ultimately, when the monster was rejected because of the villagers perceived him, the understanding and feeling of isolation started to form within

For, however badly the monster behaves he was never exactly taught it was wrong; his parent rejected him as soon as he entered the world forcing him to feel rejection and leave the home immediately. Though, he had committed many terrible crimes they were only towards humans had treated him badly enough to hurt him deeply. He set the De Lacy’s home on fire due to rejection caused by looks after he had admired the family and secretly helped them many times. This is a very important thematic moment within the story due to the fact that the blind man accepted the creature because he heard the humanity in his voice and did not see the monstrosity of his looks. This could very well show that if the parent had not rejected the monster he could have been taught how to control his passionate, emotional, and irrational decisions. The creature had many good qualities that could have outshined his bad looks and he could have been used for good instead of evil. Overall,

When the monster is first created victor says "he held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaw opened and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks." So this shows that at the beginning the creature was a happy to be alive, good person I would say. But he was treated poorly. He came to life and

Literary works that encourage curiosity in the reader to decipher and rationalize character’s actions or qualities are pieces that bring to light just how conflicted and dynamic human nature is. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelly uses “the creator” to further explain this very thought by conveying him as a morally ambiguous, or a character that is neither entirely good nor bad. “The monster” in Frankenstein, due to his moral ambiguity, portrays the complication of Victor’s situation of helping or killing “the creature,” it gives insight to how human nature is mutable, and furthers how our decisions are commonly based on other people’s change in good or bad intentions, just as Victor is unwilling to aid his creature because he is unsure of what he

Moreover, the creature entrusts a family in the forest only to have his hope brutally crushed which leads to his need for revenge. When the monster awoke from the dead, Victor Frankenstein, his creator, greeted him with horror and abandoned the creator. From the moment of his first breath, mankind feared the monster, saw him as inhuman and an omission. His first steps on Earth welcome violence from villagers when he is “grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons” (Shelley). Most humans are greeted by sweet smiles, tears of joy, and ecstatic cheers, but instead, the creature’s warm welcome into the world involves torment and suffering.

He blames all on Victor Frankenstein, who was disgusted at him when he first created him. The anger of the monster rises up after the Felix’s family left the cottage, it was also the climax of the book in which the monster found himself worthless and hated by other human beings. The rose of anger in the monster resulted from Victor’s abandonment of him, Victor’s lack of responsibility toward the monster turns the friendly monster to a savage one. The monster wants Victor to feel his feeling; a feeling of loneliness, a feeling of hatred, and a feeling of savage. The monster’s revenge turned on Victor by killing all his loved ones.

The monster, within a few months to the day when Frankenstein ran away, “becomes an articulate, educated being who learns to speak and read French,” (Watkins). The creature takes life into his own hands without a paternal figure, and goes to learn about how to communicate with others. This communication and learning from a family (unbeknownst to them) led him to trust the family, thinking that they would look past his facial features. At one point, “he presents himself to the blind family patriarch in an… appeal for friendship,” (Watkins). This worked initially, but with his pleading and grabbing the elder blind man, looking as if he was attacking the blind man, the monster was sent out and forced the family to leave the area. Over the course of the novel, “The monster [becomes] at once more intellectual and more emotional than his maker… the greatest paradox… is that the monster is even more human than his creator,” (Bloom). The monster gradually begins to learn about the outside world, and the culture developed, unlike Frankenstein, who would lock himself up and only focus on the task ahead. While the monster has good characteristics, his inability to control his rage leads to his development from a monster to the

The monster develops actual emotions despite him not being an actual human. For instance, when the monster finally finds his creator, he claims, “You must create a female for me whom I can live with in

The monster has such a gruesome and horrifying appearance, that Frankenstein is automatically scared based on the monster’s looks and therefore flees from his creation. The creature then goes out into a world that he knows absolutely nothing about and has to provide for himself without any knowledge of how to do that. When the creature scares the humans in the village and the farmer he is only trying to find food and never once thought of harming them. The monster shows many acts of kindness in his early stages of life. For example, when he is observing the family, he realizes that they are poor and he has been stealing their food. Once he understands that he is hurting them, he stops stealing. He cuts up firewood and leaves it for them in hopes of making their life easier. These actions show us that the monster does not start out doing bad things only things that might benefit the family. The creature has a desire to learn like a child does, he is fascinated in everything the family does and says. “I shall relate the events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I was, have made me what I am”(Shelley 135), this quote

In the early parts of the book, the monster tries to be a member of society which results in direct rejection. The monster watches a family and learns how to speak, write, and fit into society. This is also when he encounters love for the very first time in his life. He helps the family with many things, but when he attempts to join them, he is beaten away. While nothing directly comes from this, it still strikes the reader. This scene leads the reader to be more sympathetic when the monster commits acts of violence. The reader recognizes that the monster has been scarred by the way he is treated, by both his creator and society, making him more likely these bad

He learns from what he sees and hears, so by learning like this he is almost a slave to the things he does not understand. “They were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food, and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.” (124). One of the first things the monster was able to study was this family. He did not want to approach them, though, because he did not want to scare them off like he did Frankenstein.

The monster grows to love the French family that he observed, and spoke to the blind elderly man in the family. Without seeing him, the man speaks to the monster and recognizes his genuine kindness and yearning to improve himself, but when the mans family returns unexpectedly they drive the creature from their cottage with