Sympathy For The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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.

to make the elixir of life in order to create life. He tries to play

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster appears to be disgusting, horrible and a killer. However, readers sympathize with him since they learn about him and how he suffers throughout the story. Besides, they like the creature as they get to know he has feelings, good intentions and that his actions are nothing but the result of being a victim of mistreatment. This is possible because the author includes well detailed descriptions of the character’s thoughts that allow them to understand his personality and acts.

Sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Frankenstein for many people is a huge fiendish monster, a brainless oaf with a couple of neck bolts, who is a horrible murderer. This image has been created by Boris Karloff and other television/film images. I also thought like that, believing Frankenstein to be a monstrous murderer, so when I was met with the text I was surprised to find as a mad scientist who creates a monster. This changed my opinion greatly at first.

not the biological father, so the monster has no one to relate to as a

There were several times I had sympathy for the monster in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Victor came from a privileged family and decided he wanted to play god, which is when he created the monster. It was selfish of Victor to create the monster and leave without explaining the world it. After reading this essay I think you will also have sympathy for the monster.

Sympathy is showing care for something that is in a less fortunate situation, it is caring for it by understanding what it is dealing with. Sympathy is something many people deserve, but the question comes to beg: who deserves more sympathy: Victor or his creature? There are many different viewpoints from both sides of the situation. If you have read the book, you most likely sympathize with the creature. There is evidence to take into consideration that may lead you to sympathize with the creature.

In Mary Shelley Frankenstein, although the creature is seen as a monster, Victor is the real monster because he was unsympathetic, abandoned the creature, left it feeling alone, and left it suffering. Victor feels no sympathy towards the creature and shows no care towards the creature's feelings. He created the creature from scratch and abandoned it from the start, which led to the creature feeling alone. Victor destroyed the creature's life from the start, while the creature hopelessly looked for acceptance and validation from society. Despite the awful things the creature has done, the creature grew up on its own because Victor abandoned him, which led the creature to have no knowledge of the real world and not knowing its rights from wrongs.

In the Novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein created a creature to see if he can bring life back from death, but the creature was alone and miserable after created. Victor Frankenstein worked day and night for 2 years to complete his work but later he had abandoned him as he was afraid of the creature. The creature was created in a lab with all human body parts, and yah he was kind and everything, but this creature also had a bad side. The question of whether the creature is human or not is clear. Two reasons the creature is human is that when he was just created he started as a baby and he has emotions.

    Imagine an eight-foot-tall, misshapen human child. You might complain that this is contradictory - but do it anyway. Imagine some sort of humanoid being with the mind of a human child in an eight-foot body, green with a nail in its head if you want. This is what Frankenstein's creature is. Frankenstein's creature is mentally a child, and we see its evolution through traditional child development in the course of its narrative. But the creature is the only member of its species, and therefore its narrative can be taken to represent the history of an entire species - the creature's first experiences can be viewed as an amalgam of creation myths.

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

Frankenstein’s monster is comprised of old, deceased body parts from a multitude of deceased hosts. This mixed with unknown chemicals and potions creates this strange spark and creates the monster we come to know in the novel. Victor Frankenstein brings to life his creation but is horrified by the outcome. Victor states in the text “but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created” (ShellyPg.35). This is where the reader should first feel sympathy. This creature first comes to life and is immediately rejected by his creator. This is not fair and just to the creature. Even though he is a beast, he was created in the eyes of Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein even continues to say that “I dreaded to behold this monster and feared still more that Henry Should see him” (ShellyPg.38). Henry is one of Victor Frankenstein’s friend from his childhood. Henry is the opposite of Victor in every way and if Henry where to know what Victor was up too he would be disappointed and would lose him as a friend. Even though its understandable to the reader why Victor didn’t want Henry to see the Creature it is still wrong. Victor, in a way, is ashamed and embarrassed of his creation and does not want anyone to see or even know about what he had brought into the world.

In a slight turn of events, the Creature asks for forgiveness in haste and is obviously regretful that he caused such a thing. “‘That is also my victim!’ he exclaimed: ‘in his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close! Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! He is cold, he cannot answer me.’ (Shelley 186)” As he witnesses the scene, Robert Walton sees the humanity in the Creature, despite the ugliness of both his body and soul. However, what Walton didn’t see is the wreck of a human that Victor Frankenstein had become. After the murder of Henry Clerval, Frankenstein truly starts sinking into extreme mental instability, with his only emotions being a want for revenge and self-pity. “My father still desired to delay our departure, fearful that I could not sustain the fatigues of a journey: for I was a shattered wreck, - the shadow of a human being.” While Frankenstein became nothing but vindictive, the Creature appeared to see the entire thing as a game: one that he thought would eventually get him what he wants, while never actually harming those that aren’t a part of the

The quote acting as the prompt is an edited version of the line from Ecclesiastes 1:18, and it means that knowledge is what causes sorrow, and wisdom is what brings grief. Knowledge is often defined as having facts or skills based from experience or education. Following that, wisdom is defined as using that knowledge for good judgement. To say that knowledge causes sorrow is to say that education results in sadness, and to say that wisdom brings grief is to say that good judgment results in inner turmoil. In a sense, it’s not knowledge that leads to sorrow, but doubt that causes sorrow.

Growing up in a world learning a set of rules that are taught by love ones and then being push out of the world by following them. In Mary Shelley 's life, she grew up listening to her father 's rules then being looked down upon by being with someone she loved. She is young and is trying to find herself in the world. The story Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley looks through the three characters of Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature. The characters each have a different goal to achieve. When they achieve that goal, gaining the knowledge will either improve their well being or turn into a disaster. In Shelley 's Frankenstein, the attainment of knowledge does improve and corrupt each of the characters through the perspective of literary allusion, science, and Gothic horror.