The Creature Of 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.

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

Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein’s triumph as he reanimates a dead body, and then details his guilt for creating such a thing. When the creation realizes how he came to be, and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator’s loved ones. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portrays Victor Frankenstein as the true monster of the story through the use of literary devices revealing the characteristics that Frankensteins and monsters share, and shows how Frankenstein’s irresponsibility leads to his monstrous labeling.

“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings…” (Shelley 54). As he reads the books he found, he begins to compare his life and himself with others, and shapes his opinion and point of view of himself, since now he wants to be accepted for who he really is, because he knows that mankind rejects him. He feels lonely and miserable, and what he most want in life is a female companion. “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being” (Shelley 63). The monster feels that he is miserable because mankind hate him, and that is what make him malicious. It is possible that the monster would actually fulfill his promise and leave humankind in peace. We can assume that he has the potential for good as well as evil. As he is being aware of life by reading “Paradise Lost,” he compares himself to Adam, because he was left alone on earth by his creator, and also to Satan, because humans are afraid of him, and he is threatening and

A tormented existence can only result in one’s demise. Forming healthy relationships is a staple of human life. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Creature was fated to become a product of his environment. Perhaps one of the greatest influences in one’s life is how one is raised. The Creature is wrongly treated due to his frightening facade. In this novel, it can be made obvious that it is not what is on the inside that counts.

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.

She wrote it as a response to a challenge to a contest by Lord Byron and her husband, Percy Shelley, to think of a horror story. Whoever wrote the best story would be declared the winner.

Mary Shelly was born in 1797 and died in 1851; she was the second wife

Say there is someone, someone who acts viciously and commits heinous acts. Now, say that this same someone is just a child, misunderstood and abandoned. Knowing that this once-perceived evil being is just a child who’s been through immense amounts of misery and anguish – the root cause behind the crimes they committed – does that change one’s view of him? Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the character of the creature is first seen as an evil demon. However, there are different perspectives that can change one’s view of him.

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

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature explains that at the birth, he was innocent, benevolent, trusting and that he was made evil and murderous through experience. What questions does Frankenstein raise about the nature of the creature? Does the creature have morality? How does he turn “monstrous?” In an essay, analyze the ways Frankenstein’s creature becomes a “monster” through experience.

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.

Most people think of Frankenstein as being a big green creature with the bolt in his head; but in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Frankenstein is not the creature. Frankenstein is the last name of the guy who created the creature; his first name is Victor. After Victor created the creature, he was horrified and left the creature all alone. The creature had to learn how to do things all on his own. When people saw Victor’s creation, they called him a monster and a wretch, even though he was trying to help them.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly begins her singular famous novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus with an epigraph taken from John Milton’s Paradise Lost on the title page: “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” With this quotation, she first establishes a connection between the characters of her own novel and the characters in Milton’s work and, through its parallels, the Scriptures also. At different times, the characters of the Creature and his creator draw a direct correspondence to the characters of the classic creation narrative, yet turn what was beautiful into what, in Frankenstein, is an abomination – a doppelganger effect on the divine narrative. The characters of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature take turns playing the roles of Adam, the first man, and Satan, the rebellious fallen angel, as represented in the Miltonian epic. In doing so, though Milton paints the creation narrative with a certain literary interpretation, a theological statement is thus securely issued within the context of Mary Shelley’s magnificent prose. What, then, ensues in Frankenstein is a theological journey of creator and creation

Mary Shelley’s creature is most like the envious Lucifer, who was stricken from Heaven for his envy of his creator. Lucifer was cast from Heaven, permitted to do as he pleased while God went about his business. The creature was also abandoned by his creator after he viewed the creature. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep” (Shelley 43). When Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the creature, views his monster he finds it grotesque and appalling. Rushing out of the room, Frankenstein leaves the creature to do as it pleases. Because he did not have anyone to look up to, the creature leaves and runs off into the winter