Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein, And The Creature

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

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.

Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. The tale of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses on the outcome of one man 's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge. Rather, it was his poor parenting of his progeny that lead to his creation 's thirst for the vindication of his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and so the creation accuses him for delivering him into a world where he could not ever be entirely received by the people who inhabit it. Not only failing to foresee his faulty idealism, nearing the end of the tale, he embarks upon a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while admitting he himself that it may result in his own doom. The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life holds Victor Frankenstein more accountable for his own death than the creation himself.

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 creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, who parallels Milton’s Eve and Satan in many ways, also makes choices based on his envy for human beings and Milton’s Adam. When the creature is hiding out by the De Lacy cottage, he finds books that include Paradise Lost. The creature acknowledges his feelings of envy saying that he feels like Satan because “often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me” (Shelley 90; vol.2; ch.7). The creature is envious of the DeLacey family because they have what he does not: family and friends. The creature is all alone, so he akins himself to Satan feeling envy for The Son, whereas his envy is rather more like Eve’s because his creator made him unequal to other humans, although not on purpose. The creature also envies Adam, of Paradise Lost because he says that “like Adam, I was created apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but... He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with, and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature: but I was wretched, helpless and alone” (Shelley 90; vol.2; ch.7). Although the creature was created in similar circumstances to Adam, he struggles because his creator shunned him and left him to be alone and ugly. The creature, so much like Adam, envies how Adam was loved by his creator.

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.

To begin with what is an individual? An individual is a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family. According to a person’s nature and character can be impacted by their way of life, society, parental influences, freedom and isolation. These factors can be seen in Mary Shelley’s novel Victor Frankenstein. Does being a neglectful parent leads to someone being dangerous in society. Victor Frankenstein is Genevese by birth and he came from very privileged background. Victor describes his parents to have a positive influence on his life: “my mother’s tenderness caresses and my father’s smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections” (Shelley #31). As Victor describes some

Plato once said, “To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.” In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley we see how The Creature’s nature slowly develops through his interactions in the world. Many of these interaction were greatly influenced by Victor, his creator, who left him to fend for himself as a newborn. The Creature was created a pure being, but Victor’s constant rejection and negative reactions pushed The Creature to its final revengeful nature.

I can't believe that the creature killed William Victor Frankenstein brother. I think the creature will be considered as a human because In Gris Grimley's Frankenstein, William was murdered because he kept on calling the creature ugly and kept on saying that if he wanted to eat him, but the creature didn't want to but when he heard the name of Frankenstein he snapped and murdered him. But I still think the creature is human because he has emotions like humans and interreacts like humans. And wants to be loved and not lonely that's why he wanted a mate.

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

If guidance was in place in Frankenstein, then the Creature wouldn’t have done the evil things he had done. If Victor Frankenstein, the creator, learned to accept and not be judgmental then the Creature could have been celebrated and praised all around. This could’ve been a significant advancement in the field of science. But of course, for a good plot of a story there always has to be unbelievable plot twists and wrong choices that could be fixed and turned into a life lesson.

From the beginning of the Creature’s existence, he is deprived of making choices for himself. He was never asked to be created, nor did he have a choice on how he was treated. For any existent being, being deprived of choices can only lead to a sense of rebellion and a feeling of rejection by society. This is another factor that plays into the Creature's State of Nature and how he finds himself in the end of novel feeling like he is evil. When the Creature discovers that he is no more than a mere reject from society, he ask Victor for a companion, in which whom he can spend his days with and no longer be an outsider. The Creature wanted someone who, ¨[was] of the same species, and [has] the same defects¨. (Frankenstein, 143). His testimony shows that if he had a choice, he would

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, is a story about how important having a family is to some, but also judging someone based on their appearance. Victor Frankenstein starts the novel by describing his childhood with his loving and supportive family. Family is very important to him because he did not have many friends growing up. While Frankenstein is away at school he starts to become very depressed and you see his attitude towards his family and his life change. Being away at school, he creates a “monster” by using different pieces of corpses and that becomes the only thing that matters to him until he sees how hideous it is. He immediately hates his creation just because of how he looks. Frankenstein begins to abandon everyone and thing in his life because of his obsession with the idea of glory and science, causing the novel to go from Romanticism to Gothic. The “monster” finds a family living in a cottage, by watching all winter he learns how a family should love and accept others. By seeing this, Frankenstein’s creations understand what was taken from him, and will do whatever he has to do to have a family of his own.

    Mary Shelley displays the theme of nature vs. nurture immediately with the development of Walton in the letters. Robert saving the stranger outside of his ship from the cold and nursing him back to health shows a nurturing side from Robert. When the mysterious man regains conscience and realizes what is happening, he is greeted by a crew member who warns him, “[h]ere is our captain, and he will allow you to perish on the open sea” (Shelley 10). Walton and his crew take the man  in and nurture him back to near full health.  Walton shows an immediate aspect of nurturing, “I have persuaded him to remain in the cabin, for he is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmosphere.” (Shelley 12). The reader disconnects from