The Creation Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The monster starts off attempting to save a little girl from drowning but is falsely accused that he is trying to kill her instead so he is shot in the shoulder. This is the first step to the monsters rage and anger. He then goes off and kills Henry, Frankenstein’s best friend, after Frankenstein refuses to make a female monster. He then kills William, Frankenstein's younger brother, which at this point in the story seems to be the time where all innocence is lost and the monster has all of the power and cannot be stopped by anyone. The monster then kills the most important or influential to Frankenstein, Elizabeth his wife who was an orphan and adopted by the family at a young age. Elizabeth and Frankenstein go to a hotel for their honeymoon, the monster breaks into their room and strangles her. “She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary. when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.” He is overcome with grief and vows to return to Geneva to make sure his family is

After complying with the monster’s demand, Dr. Frankenstein aborts his promise when the female monster is near completion. He quickly destroys his latest creation before things get further out of hand. This is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, as soon after, the monster lashes out in uncontrollable rage. Infuriated by Dr. Frankenstein’s seemingly cruel act of indifference, the monster seeks revenge by murdering Dr. Frankenstein’s fiancé, Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s murder shows the undeniable parallel between the monster and Dr. Frankenstein. The monster’s only desire was to enjoy some form of companionship, but when Frankenstein denies him of this possibility, the monster becomes dedicated to destroying Dr. Frankenstein’s happiness and love in return. Dr. Frankenstein’s immense supply of knowledge not only has created a physical monster, but his knowledge has also made a monster out of himself. Dr. Frankenstein held the absolute authority over the happiness of the monster’s life, but in his own act of monstrosity, rather than using his knowledge to create contentment for an otherwise desolate creature, he takes away the one aspiration that keeps the monster sane.

Frankenstein’s monster demands that Frankenstein creates him a female companion. Frankenstein agrees to this in the hopes that he will be left in peace. However during creation of the female, and the monster watching him work, it dawns on him the reality of the hideous act he is embarking upon. Overcome by the image of the monster and the idea of creating another like him, Frankenstein destroys his work. The monster is distraught over Frankenstein’s actions and explains the misery he has been through whilst perusing him - he explains that he will make Victor pay if he refuses to create him his female mate.

This bitterness causes the monster to seek revenge against his creator by murdering those who Victor Frankenstein is close to. Even with the abandonment of a parent-figure, the monster still has a sense of humanity. We see this through the monster’s streak of benevolence, for instance he saves a girl from drowning,

Frankenstein has promised his monster that he will make him a wife, another monster to be his companion. He travels to England with his friend Henry Clerval, then continues on alone to Scotland. He rents a small hut, in which he begins his work on the second monster. As he works on the creature, he muses over how excited he had been when he created he first monster, but this time he is filled with horror. Frankenstein is afraid that the two monsters will be able to procreate and will unleash a race of monsters on mankind. When the monster shows up to check on Frankenstein's progress, he destroys the female monster. The monster is enraged by this, and promises Frankenstein that he will be there on his wedding night to exact revenge. The monster leaves and Frankenstein destroys all evidence of his work. He the goes to Ireland, where he is immediately arrested as the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Frankenstein soon finds out that the person who was murdered is his friend Henry Clerval. It is clear to Frankenstein that this is the work of the monster and he becomes feverish and sick. After two months in jail, fighting illness, he recovers and his father comes to see him. Frankenstein is acquitted of the murder, as he was in scotland at the time it occurred. He then travels home to Geneva with his

The monster 's appearance causes his creator to abandon him and prevents him from normal human interaction. He is forced to learn about the world on his own and spends most of his time watching others. Frankenstein is not the only one negatively affected by his existence. In the process of bringing the monster to life, Victor had deprived himself of rest and health, causing him to fall ill for several months. Shortly after his recovery, Victor learns his younger brother has been murdered. Frankenstein has killed his creator’s brother and framed an innocent girl to get back at Victor for abandoning him. After the girl is executed, Victor becomes consumed with guilt knowing he is responsible for two of his family members deaths. The monster does not stop there, he goes on to kill Victor’s friend Henry and fiance, Elizabeth. Because of his creation, Victor is haunted by depression and guilt for most of his life and died a lonely death hunting Frankenstein.

Frankenstein becomes melancholy after Justine's execution as he recalls being "seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe"(61). Frankenstein becomes depressed as he believes that he is to blame for the death of William and Justine as she is accused of the death. However, it is discovered that the death of William is not committed by Justine but, the monster instead. The monster later makes a compromise with Frankenstein stating "if you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends"(68). Frankenstein refuses the ultimatum the monster gives experiencing the consequences. Later on in the novel, Frankenstein once again becomes ill suddenly after the death of his best friend, Henry Clerval. Frankenstein thinks about the creature, which leads him to say, "I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval. [...] I felt the fingers of the monster already gasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror"(130). Frankenstein's creation is the reason his brother, William, his servant, Justine, and his best friend, Henry Clerval, die. This was not the end of the monster's retaliation, as seen through the murder of Frankenstein's wife, Elizabeth. Additionally, due to the many deaths in the novel that Frankenstein's creation caused, Frankenstein is forced to live with the guilt that he has for their deaths as he states, "I called myself the murdered." Frankenstein feeling "the fingers of the monster already gasping my neck" displays how the monster is the murderer through illustrating his signature murder by strangling. Consequently, Frankenstein feels that he is the monsters next victim. Furthermore, Frankenstein

My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement…I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.” (33). Frankenstein held immense devotion to the completion of the project, sacrificing his own vigor to continue his efforts. Ultimately, it is this level of greed which Frankenstein held to his passion that led to the demise of himself and those closest to him. Immediately after succeeding in bringing the being to life, Frankenstein abandons the monster in horror of what he had created. The monster goes through its own path of discovery only to find itself in a state of misery, which turns into anger against Frankenstein. The monster sets out and murders Frankenstein’s brother, best friend, and wife. Its ravages also indirectly lead to the deaths of Frankenstein’s father and family servant. These deaths put Frankenstein into a deep state of melancholia, which converts into indignation against the monster. Frankenstein dies on Walton’s ship, lonely and unsatisfied with his life, after pursuing the monster for months in hopes of retaliation. Frankenstein dies of agony, never successfully killing the monster. His insatiable hunger for discovery conveyed that knowledge can not be sought purely out of greed, or else it will result in sorrowful ramifications.

Knowing his creation was the cause of the death of two people Frankenstein cares about, he becomes guilty. Victor encounters the monster again when he passes through the mountains to relieve his frustrations over his guilt. The monster explains his story: how he came to follow a family who lived in the woods that he cared for and learned to speak from, up until the current time. While admitting to being the murderer of William, he pleads for understanding, and explains he grabbed William in attempt to get revenge on his creator, Victor, who has allowed him to feel excluded and lonely from the world. The monster requests Victor to create a companion for him, when Victor initially refuses, but then agrees after convincing Victor. One night, after working on it for some time, Victor looks outside his window and sees his creation grinning at him. Victor, concerned about the consequences, destroys his work, and the angry monster promises him that he will be there on Victor’s wedding night. Victor then takes the remains of his destroyed work onto a boat and dumps them into the lake. The next morning, he finds himself ashore an unknown area, and is arrested and will be tried for

Mary Shelly's novel, Frankenstein, depicts what happens when one individual begins to tamper with forces that should be beyond their control. The story centers around a doctor named Victor Frankenstein and his attempt to reverse the phenomenon known as death. Eventually, Frankenstein succeeds in his attempts to create life from death, but the results do not give him much hope. Frankenstein's creation is considered to be an abomination, a monster, and more importantly, it is considered to be dead. This assumption is soon disproven, as the creation begins to seemingly attack its creator. In actuality the creation is very child-like in nature and is merely looking for love and comfort, much like Frankenstein was early in the story.

No matter how much he learns about the world and about himself, he will always be treated as an outcast and as a monster. He no longer trusts humans, as his attempts at friendship were ruined due to his hideous and intimidating appearance. He tries to befriend an old man, but the family chases him off. He tries rescuing a little girl, but her father shoots him. He tries talking to a passerby, but once he discovers he is the brother of his creator, he kills him in his rage and blames another. Because of what he has learned since his creation, the Monster pleads with Frankenstein. He tries to explain his loneliness, and feels as though a companion who would share the same disconnect from the rest of the world would be the only one who could be able to understand him.

Dr. Frankenstein works on a project and ends up bringing an ugly creature to life in a dark laboratory. He takes many body parts and uses electricity and technology to create a living being. The creature has many body parts taken from different people, making him look very otherworldly and ugly. Creating something living out of dead body parts creates a supernatural feel. The monster that Dr. Frankenstein creates also shows supernatural traits throughout the novel.

After Frankenstein’s mother died, he had the impetus to discover the creation of life and how life falls apart and decays. One stormy night, after much research and labor, Frankenstein completed a reanimation of life using his mother’s corpse. Terrified how his “monster” creation turned he turned ill and was nursed back to health by Henry Carvall, his childhood friend. The monster ended up killing all of Frankenstein’s family and friends for his hideous creation and rejection towards society even after the monster sat down and talked with his creator for another companion. Frankenstein initially accepted the deal accepting the responsibility as his creator to relieve the monster from his desperation of loneliness. Within completion of his second monster, he looked at his first creation and was overwhelmed by the monster’s grotesqueness and possibility of having children creating a new “race of devils on Earth”. He abandon the experiment with the monster swearing vengeance on his wedding day with Elizabeth. The monster ended up killing Elizabeth. As Frankenstein finishes telling his story to Walton whom he met on a trek to kill the monster, he spoke his final words on his

Frankenstein loves his family and shows a love for even his servants when they are in trouble. He returns to Geneva immediately upon hearing of his brother’s death. After their maid is blamed for the murder of the boy, Frankenstein feels an immense amount of guilt that she is being punished for the monsters sins. He takes Elizabeth with him after they get married, hoping to salvage the last of his family and is distraught after her murder and the murder of his father. He is left utterly alone and the lack of family turns him to the decision that the monster must be destroyed. The monster also craves family. After he is abandoned by Frankenstein, he finds a safe shelter connected to the home of the De Lacey’s. He is able to observe the family through a hole in the wall and he learns much from them. As George V. Griffith explains in his analysis, “The monster sees in the De Laceys the loving family he has never known and their simple cottage life is a model of the happily primitive which the Romantics idealized.” (Griffith) He learns of the relationship between siblings and between father and child. He yearns after a relationship of his own and even attempts to talk to the blind, elderly De Lacey. He hopes that his disability will allow him to see the monster as he truly is. The monster is mildly successful in his befriending of the old man, until his children return home and are horrified by the monster. The rejection from this family makes the monster mad and he tracks down Frankenstein telling him, "I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.'"(Pg. 129) The monster demands Frankenstein to make him a mate so that they can go away together and so he can finally have love and the feeling

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a gothic story that follows the character Victor Frankenstein as well as his monster. Victor creates his monster from the limbs of deceased animals and uses his knowledge to give life to his creation. However, upon the monsters awakening, Victor is horrified of what he has brought into existence. From the beginning of the monsters life, he is rejected by his creator, none the less of the entire population around him. The monster is not given a name, or any identifying characteristics that would allow him to have any sense of humanity. The monster is persistently outcasted from every human he encounters, and followed by the viscous behaviour people bestow on him, as they are terrified of his appearance. As a result, the monster becomes lonesome, vengeful, and spiteful towards his creator, proceeding to murder Victor's youngest brother, William. When the monster encounters Victor again, he demands that Victor creates a companion, however Victor is unable to complete the task and discards of the second creation. The monster curses victor, swearing that he will take the life of his first wife on the night of their marriage. At the end of the novel, the monster lived but a miserable life at the hands of