Sympathy For The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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I believe that Victor Frankenstein does not deserve the reader's sympathy. The lack of sympathy toward Victor is the result of how The Creature affected society due to his terrible parenting, along with the fact that he doesn't change his actions as he becomes aware of the grim choices he is making. The Creature, without a doubt scarred society. The cold-blooded killing of William Frankenstein by The Creature was the first domino in this line of pain. Victor, though "convinced of [the] truth" (Shelly 93), that The Creature killed William, does not tell anyone.

Additionally, he uses that emotion to imply that he faced cruelty and injustice because of the indifference of those that could have helped. What he is conveying has the purpose of making the audience realize that their indifference could cause someone else to also face pain and

The Monster understands empathy and humanity. He is sympathetic for the DeLacey family, especially when he recognizes that they are poor. He sees the kids giving the old blind man good several times from their plate to his, when it is already so scarce. He states,

He learns a variety of feelings throughout his observations of the De Lacy family. The monster had been neglected of care his whole life and was “seeking acceptance, company or comfort,”and felt that he couldn’t live his life without human interaction (Codr 68). The monster reached out to the De Lacy’s and was turned down immediately. The monster realized that it was not due to his actions or his approach towards them, but it was rather the fact that “I was terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool”(Shelley 121). He was simply unappealing to the eye, which caused the De Lacy’s to flee from their home. Later down the road, the monster comes across a girl who is seemingly running away from someone or something. She continued on past him

Sympathy, another theme in this book, can have the same amount of impact on an individual.  Instead of it having a negative reaction to the reader it has a superior reaction to the reader.  ?Lee Chong? knew he could not have helped it, but he wished he might have known and perhaps tried to help.  It was deeply a part of Lee?s kindness and understanding that man?s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary?(Page 2).  Lee was having compassionate sentiments for the man who committed suicide.  He had a deep feeling that he could of helped in someway to convince the man that his life was worth living.  A side story that was important to the theme of Sympathy was a story about Mrs. Kitty Casini a mouse and Mary Talbot ?Kitty Casini had a mouse?Daintily she stabbed the mouse through the back and drew it wriggling to her and her tail flicked with tense delight? ?I can?t blame Kitty Casini? said Mary. ?I?m just not going to like her no matter how much I want to??(Pages 155-156).  Mary had intense sympathy for that mouse that with no doubt died a tragic death.  She went to the extreme of disliking on of her favorite cat.  Sympathy can bring about the good in people.  Sympathy for loved ones or strangers can surprise one for their intense emotions.

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.

To be sympathetic is to feel pity for someone else’s misfortune. In the short story, “The Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl, Mary was not a sympathetic character because she was selfish, two-faced, and evil-minded. Patrick Maloney wanted a divorce, but she did not hesitate to think about what he said. She only thought of herself and how she did not want to be alone. The husband even offered to “give [her] money and see [that she is] looked after,” but she ended up killing him, leaving her baby fatherless and without money. Mary was also a fake who could not be trusted. She seemed foolish and innocent on the outside, but she was capable of the unthinkable. Mary tried to “do everything right and natural” in front of the grocer and

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

Victor, after being convinced to create a female companion for the monster, realizes that this will only create double the amount of destruction, he then makes the choice to discontinue his project to prevent more devastation. Instead of less damage resulting from this choice it only brings more harm to his life and everyone around him. First, his good friend Henry Clerval is murdered by the beast and Victor is accused of this murder, “The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.” (Shelley 129). This was Victor’s reaction upon seeing Henry’s corpse and demonstrates how deeply his pursuit for knowledge affects him. Even though he is later released on circumstantial evidence, he will be scarred for life knowing that he responsible for yet another death. Given that Victor destroyed the monster’s only hope of having someone else like him in the world; the monster swears revenge and that he will return on Victor’s wedding night. Victor misinterpreted this warning and instead of the monster attacking Victor, his creation attacked and

I feel sympathetic for the creature on many occasions in the fiction novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein has brought something to life that he cannot even look at without being horrified. I believe it was wrong that Frankenstein played God and created something he didn’t understand. Once you are finished with this essay I believe you will agree with me.

After seeing the kindness shown by the family, the monster starts to show signs of kindness himself. He previously would steal part of their food storage to eat at night, but upon realizing that it was hurting the family, he stopped. Also, when he learned that gathering wood took up a large portion of their days, he would take their tools and bring back enough wood in one night to last them for a few days. From then on, the monster sought love. When he approaches Frankenstein he does not punish him for abandoning him, but instead implores him to make him a mate so that he can live in happiness. Though Frankenstein is unsympathetic and unloving toward his creation, we can still see he seeks love in the fact that he created the monster at all. He confesses his

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has many main ideas, whether it's about injustice, feminism, parental responsibility, the danger of too much knowledge, the cost of revenge, the relationship between man and God, etc., they all serve a certain purpose. Out of all of those main ideas, the one that sticks out the most is injustice. Injustice comes from the Latin phrase that represents “not right”, and it is the practice of being unjust or unfair (Injustice - Dictionary Definition). Throughout the book, Mary Shelley wanted to show that injustice is caused due to the fear of what is different (“Shelley, Mary - Justice and Injustice”). Many characters in this story all have different characteristics, whether it is due to their look, personality, childhood, current situations, and more. A lot of the characteristics that differ from each other have led to many injustice situations. Even though injustice might not always be bad, many examples of unnecessary injustice are shown throughout “Frankenstein” due to undeserving punishment, violating the rights of others, and unfair treatment.

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

In Frankenstein, the monster undergoes a wide variety of emotional experiences and insightful thoughts from reading Paradise Lost, Plutarch’s Lives, and Sorrows of Werter while temporarily residing at the De Laceys’ cottage. These thoughts and emotions had carried on to the monster himself, influencing his perspectives on both human nature and his own identity, and eventually leading to his evil actions and downfall. Had the monster read other works, his actions and intellectual experiences would have been shaped accordingly, in turn benefiting his courses of action and his general disposition towards himself and towards humanity. Namely, Crime and Punishment, 1984, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin would all serve as catalysts for change in the monster’s