The Consequences Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

His abandonment issues corrupt the Creature’s life as it causes him to seek a place he will be accepted in. His first positive encounter was with a blind man who was able to judge the Creature by his personality rather than his physical appearance. The Creature tells Mr. De Lacey, “they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but, unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions” (Shelley 159). The Creature is troubled by his appearance because it has gotten in the way of living a normal life. The Creature chooses to accept that Victor is the only person that can solve his situation as he seeks a companion that’ll join him in life. He may have started off corrupted, but the attainment of knowledge improved him.

Most people find themselves either at the bottom or at the top of others and a great portion of them want to be the ones on top, the ones in power. In “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Victor creates a creature that suddenly turns on him. The creature’s creator abandoned him and now seeks revenge by having power over him to gain his own happiness. Through the course of attempting to gain the power over Victor Frankenstein there were many struggles, Mary Shelley, illustrated this by diction and imagery. The creature continued the pursuit for power not knowing that the consequences in the future would be of many deaths including his happiness.

“Frankenstein” written by Mary Shelley was a warning to everyone about the possible dangers of going against the natural process of creating a human. Even though the creature was not nurtured and therefore did not understand the weight of his actions, the novel was a warning to human society for potential destruction. Due to the creature killing a lot of people because his intellectual development was outstanding whereas his social skills lacked basic understanding. This caused issues for Victor Frankenstein’s everyday life.

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.

Science has become a tool for humans to understand the wonders of nature and to manipulate the new knowledge for personal benefit of a single race. Specifically, during the Nineteenth Century, electricity was being recently experimented with and galvanism was one of the most gruesome practices at the time. This initiated the idea of giving life to the dead and became one of the foundations of the gothic and romantic monster novel that is still famous today. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the author warns that although science has many great beneficial achievements, there are the consequences of attempting to replicate nature and warns of the self destruction that results from obsessing over it that are often disregarded.

Ronald Britton is the writer and editorial manager of the article: Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein: What Made the Monster Monstrous. All throughout this article Britton will talk about the genesis of the renowned story of Frankenstein, which emerged from a fantasy experienced by Mary Shelley while on an occasion imparted to her spouse and her stride sister. The creator talked upon Shelley expressing that “She emphasizes that she was not confined to her own identity in these daydreams, she became others and so peopled them with creatures far more interesting than her own sensations” (Britton 2). As a kid Shelley composed stories that were sensible, fabulous, and pleasing; they were her shelter when irritated and her most profound joy when free. One night as Shelley is asleep, she has a striking dream. In the fantasy she sees a revolting apparition of a man extended and after that, on the working of some capable motor, hint at life. Shelley portrays how she is controlled by her wild creative energy. She expresses that “This clearly was no daydream. I would call it a night terrors a sleep-induced visual hallucination that persists on waking” (Britton 3). Shelley then builds up the thought that what frightened her will frighten others. She needs to depict the apparition which frequents her midnight pad, so the next day she started to recount to her story.

Victor Frankenstein had a loving family, but he left his family for a while to study at a university. While at the university Victor created, over a long period of time, a wretched monster. Victor hated his creation, so his reaction to the monster made the monster run away. The monster over time learned that his life is miserable, and that everyone hates him because of his appearance. The monster became revengeful, and wanted to make Victor pay for making him miserable.

Victor's duties towards his creature are to take care of him as if he were his son. Not let him wander around by himself, not let him be lonely. At first, Victor let him wander around because he was scared of the creature and was mad at him because he believe the monster killed William. According to paragraph 14, line 6, it states, "You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature." This quote shows how the monster is trying to tell Victor that he too is a murderer if he plans on killing the creature he created. This also ties in with Mary Shelley's epigraph which states, "DID I REQUEST THEE, MAKER, FROM MY CLAY, TO MOULD ME MAN?" This quote shows how the creature never asked to be created,

When talking about knowledge most assume it is good. And in most cases knowledge is good. Look what it has done for us as society and as a world. When someone gets sick we give them medicine instead of trying to cleanse the “evil” by cutting them and making them bleed. Most people can see how knowledge is good. But too much of anything is bad, there are a couple of exceptions but I don’t think knowledge is one of those exceptions. Look at what happened in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein was a great scientist but he did not have the foresight to know the consequences of his creation. That is why I am going to make the argument that ignorance is bliss.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible feeling in the world, imagine not having anyone one to turn to, that no one understands you. This is exactly the way Frankenstein’s creature felt, his appearance frightened everyone around him his own creator abandoned him. It was not the monsters’ choice to be created and he faces the consequences of the creator. Frankenstein should create a companion for the creature because it is in need of love, affection and a friend.

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the creature is introduced to four readings that influenced his outlook on human life. The four books being Paradise Lost By John Milton,Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans By Plutarch,The Sorrows of Young Werther By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ruins of Empires by Constantin-François de Volney . Knowing that these four works influenced the creature to be who he became, I would change them in hopes of him becoming good. In the story of Frankenstein, the Creature studies or listens to 4 books. Each book molded who he became and how he thought or felt about society. Bibliotherapy is used occasionally for psychiatric therapy or to help solve your personal problems. If his reading choices

If handled poorly, knowledge can cause devastating problems in society, or it can change the world positively. When someone decides to interfere with the creation of life and the unknown, the interference pushes the boundaries of morality. It is human nature to push knowledge beyond normalcy because the public wants to use it to help the world. For example, doctors and nurses are using the knowledge they have to find ways to lessen psychological problems and birth disorders. Also, different inventions are created every day to make the world less polluted and plagued. However, when helping the world, experiments can go wrong and create disasters. For instance, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, after Victor Frankenstein finishes the creature,

Eventually Victor goes on to accomplish one of the most impressive feats in scientific history. However, his discovery had the adverse effect that he had initially hoped for. Victor’s initial encounter with the creature when he first gave life to it shows the horrors that can arise from disobeying the laws of nature and the divine. For example, Victor says, “I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley, 59). Prometheus knew that he would be punished for defying Zeus and yet he still decided to put his own personal needs aside in order to help the human race. Unlike Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein did not take responsibility for the needs of his creation and it ended up costing him everything. The creature even tried to talk with Victor to explain his sadness and difficulty in the world but Victor refused to give into the creature’s demands. During one of their encounters the creature says to Victor, "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge” (Shelley, 115). The creature would go on to exact his revenge on Victor by murdering everyone he held dear including his best friend Harry Clerval, and even his wife Elizabeth on their wedding

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, the being created by Victor Frankenstein has been cast out due to his horrid appearance and the gruesome way in which he came to be. The monster finds refuge in a hovel next to a small family living in Germany. One day he notices a leather satchel in the yard, he quickly gathers the satchel and its contents and returns to his hovel. The bag contained strictly books, one of them being John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”. After observing the family for some time, he attains the ability to read and speak. With this ability he reads all the books within the bag, and feels a profound connection between himself and Satan in “Paradise Lost”. Similar to the monster, Satan was cast out of heaven after betraying God by planning a revolt against him. Both characters were formed, cast out, and betrayed by their creators, due to differing circumstances. However, in the wake of their rejections they both vow revenge on mankind.

1. Mary Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797 in London, England by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a famous feminist, but unfortunately died shortly after Shelley 's birth. William Godwin, her father, raised her and her half sister. A tension grew between her and her family when her father remarried and had another child. She loved to daydream and was a very imaginative child. In 1814, Mary fell in love and ran away with Percy Shelley. In the mean time, and at the age of 21, she wrote her novel Frankenstein. Shelley and her husband, as of 1816, attempted to have children several times, and finally succeeded with Percy Florence, who was the only one to live to adulthood. Unfortunately, her husband drowned just 3 years after their son 's birth. ("Mary Shelley" Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015)