Humanity In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

When Victor Frankenstein began the process of creating a living being from an inanimate object, he expected the creature to be the beautiful beginning of a new

I strongly believe that the creature made by Victor Frankenstein is indeed very human. I say this because he shows many human traits. Some of these traits are that he can feel complex emotion's and he has a higher intellect than most animals such as humans. In this essay I will also discuss multiply reasons some might use as evidence to support the claim that he is not human and why they are not sufficient to make the conclusion that the creature made by Frankenstein is not human.

Victor Frankenstein’s creation, the nameless creature in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, displays countless characteristics of physical monstrosity; he is described as “ugly”, “demonical” and a “hideous… wretch” (Shelley 36). However, the creature expresses that his only desires are acceptance and love, but he is seen as a monster regardless of his true intentions. When the creature is abandoned by Frankenstein, he is forced to find acceptance on his own and eventually comes across a cottage in the woods. As an attempt to gain approval, he waits to approach the home until the only character home is a blind man, to whom he explains his desire for friendship. The creature says that he is afraid to become “an

The creature designed by Frankenstein is a human despite his exterior because he has proven to be able to convey concern and solicitude for others in his life. Throughout the story, Frankenstein's creature displays a need to be accepted and understood, displaying his compassion for others despite their lack of regard to him. Even when the creature makes mistakes and hurts others, he is able to show integrity when he takes proper accountability for his actions. Looking past the creature's unconventional features, his rationality and understanding of the way the world works is enough to declare him a member of the human race. Victor Frankenstein’s “monster” is not really a monster.

The creature that Victor Frankenstein created is human because he was made with human body parts dug up from graves. He learned to be human, had human desires, and even displayed human emotions. Early on, the creature’s form was created with the help of human parts.

In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the character Victor Frankenstein creates something that he thought it was going to be good. He thought it would be good because he had already been thinking about creating something like for a long time. But when he saw what he had created he was amazed but at the same time he was terrified of the thing he has created. The two main reasons why the creature is considered a human is because he has emotion and he feels love. He feels emotion because when Victor died, and the monster started to cry.

    Sometimes, in novels like Frankenstein, the motives of the author are unclear.  It is clear however, that one of the many themes Mary Shelley presents is the humanity of Victor Frankenstein's creation.  Although she presents evidence in both support and opposition to the creation's humanity, it is apparent that this being is indeed human.  His humanity is not only witnessed in his physical being, but in his intellectual and emotional thoughts as well.  His humanity is argued by the fact that being human does not mean coming from a specific genetic chain and having family to relate to, but to embrace many of the distinct traits that set humans apart from other animals in this

Frankenstein” is written by Mary Shelley., where Victor creates a half human and half machine using modern technology. The creature he has created is more unique than the humans now. Creature is able to survive any illness and not be able to die because of old age. He is created with neutral feelings. He has no feelings whatsoever because he is created with no feelings. Instead he learns how to feel from society. The human language helps differentiate the difference between hate and love according to Niza Yanay in “The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse”. The physical appearance of Creature and the way the creature behaves is similar to how slaves use to act according to H.L Machlow in “Frankenstein’s monster and the images of Race in the Nineteenth century”. The Creature was created as a neutral person because of the hate he receives from society, he learns to distinguish

Victor Frankenstein's determination to constitute a race causes him to create a deformed creature, which he immediately rejects. In the

Victor Frankenstein grew up in Geneva. He had a strong interest in reading the works of the ancient and outdated alchemists, and was fascinated by science and the 'secret of life.' One day he decided that he wanted to study further, so Victor actually created a person of his own out of old body parts and strange chemicals. When the creature came to life, he was a hideously ugly beast. The creature does have beauteous features such as ?lustrous black hair,? and ?teeth of pearly whiteness,? but they do not look good because they are out of place in relation to his other features, such as his ?shriveled complexion,? and ?watery

Frankenstein works on a project to create a living creature. The moment arrives, and Frankenstein is anxious, but not worried about the outcomes of his experiments. Instead. Frankenstein anticipated the creation of a living being as he says that he might infuse a spark to bring the dead thing to lay at his feet (Shelley 40). Evidently, Frankenstein believes that the living being he is about to bring to life is not entirely human as he calls it a lifeless thing, s description that could be termed as cold. The creature being made is in a sense not a person, but a slave that Frankenstein intended to control, and that is he wanted the lifeless thing to lie at his feet. The physique of the creature is evidently below the human being’s body. . Frankenstein notes that the creature moves inexplicably and its bodily functions are rather weird if compared to the human body movement and function. The implications of his creation come back to haunt him days later. The creature’s odd movement and bodily functions result to its doing things that are not acceptable to the human being’s community. “At length, I perceived a small hut…This was a new sight to me, and I examined the structure; with great

Shelley’s definition explains that we are not only biological creatures, but we also have emotions, social outlooks, and behaviors that influence humanity. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein is the human, and his creation is the physical monster. However, the way they act, what they do, and

In the book “Frankenstein by Mary Shelley” the creature is brought to life by his creator victor Frankenstein. The creature is brought to life with human qualities, arms, face, and feelings. In the book Frankenstein there are numerous moments where characteristics classify the monster as human and nonhuman. In this essay I will go over the humanity for victor's creature and the qualities that make it human. I will also talk about how the monster gains feelings over time and starts understanding the outside world around him.

In most people’s minds as of today, there is no question to who the monster is in Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein. It is the creature that Viktor Frankenstein created, that murders innocent people. However, when looking beyond the appearance of the creature, it is evident that he did not begin as a monster. Mary Shelley analyzes fundamental and crucial issues in her novel in terms of being able to use science and knowledge for the good of people and not for the satisfaction of personal ambitions without even being able to take responsibility for that. It is also the novel of social rejection based on external looks and inability to accept. It was the extreme misconceptions of humans that resulted in the extreme isolation of Frankenstein’s

Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.