The Destructive Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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

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

One’s nature has always influenced his or her actions. Everyone has his or her unique attitude but there are different attributes that make up one’s attitude. Arrogance, overconfidence, greed, selfishness, selflessness, benevolence, and fear are among these attributes. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley empowers her characters with these attributes. In the gothic novel Frankenstein, the character Victor creates a creature in order to fulfill his ambitions. This creature is abandoned by Victor, which causes the creature to be overwhelmed with loneliness. Everyone judges the creature by his appearance and this causes the creature to disdain his master. The creature murders Victor’s family and later both of them duel each other in order

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is very much a commentary on the Enlightenment and its failure to tame the human condition through reason. The human condition can be defined as the unique features which mold a human being. The creature is undoubtedly a victim of this predicament. He grapples with the meaning of life, the search for gratification, the sense of curiosity, the inevitability of isolation, and the awareness of the inescapability of death. These qualities and his ceaseless stalking of his master conjure up the metaphor that he is the shadow of the Enlightenment. Indeed, the Enlightenment is represented through Frankenstein whereas the creature is the embodiment of everything it shuns. These include nature, emotion, and savagery. The two characters are understood as counterparts and yet strikingly similar at the same time. The creature is considered a monster because of his grotesque appearance. Frankenstein on the other hand is a monster of another kind: his ambition, secrecy, and selfishness alienate him from human society. He is eventually consumed by an obsessive hatred of his creation. Both characters also commit primordial crimes. Although rationality pervades through Frankenstein's endeavours, it can be argued that he becomes less human the more he tries to be God. The secret of life lies beyond an accepted boundary from which none can return. By creating life Frankenstein ironically sets the stage for his own destruction as well as that of his family. The

When you hear the name Frankenstein, the average person may think of a tall, green, hideous-looking monster with bolts in his neck. How do we know this? Whether it is the movies, we have seen about him or the television shows, directors have always portrayed him as a hostile creature. But do we know about the man behind all of that unfortunate look? Mary Shelley in Frankenstein has done a great job of telling the story from his perspective and how he has had to learn on his own. However, before Frankenstein learned how to control his God-like strength and emotions he committed a tragic crime, which in most countries would get you put in jail.

In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, ‘natural’ science is used to create life. Dr. Frankenstein discovers how to do this, mends pieces of people together, and creates a horrid monster. The monster struggles to interact with humans, as they constantly rally against him because his physical appearance is revolting. Dr. Frankenstein created the monster, and as he comes to life, immediately abandons him. The monsters attributes of betrayal and loneliness leads to the demise of his creator.

Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein, is a frame work where Victor Frankenstein brings to life the creature. Further in the story the creature learns his creator doesn’t want him, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in the instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?”(275). Victor has done some wrong actions that causes the creature to alter to an evil monster and monster blames creator and seeks revenge towards him.

In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein Victor and his monster slowly switch places and while the monster slowly gains humanity, Victor gradually becomes a monster himself. The monster that Victor created gradually begins to learn more about humanity over time. The Monster starts off as a collection of body parts that have been pieced together and given life by electricity. Despite what the monster may look like it still wants to become more human.

Monsters are made not born. I’ve heard this many times in TV shows and even heard my parents say that phrase. I have to agree which this statement, a lot of people become monsters because of someone or something that happened. Much like in the TV show “Once upon a Time” the Malevolent Queen wasn’t always malevolent in fact she was quite nice until snow white told her mother about her lover who she killed and from there on she has been trying to destroy Snow Whites life. I’m going to tell you how Doctor Frankenstein is the real monster in the book. He made the monster, he was selfish, and became the man the monster wanted him to be.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley did get me thinking, but I’m not sure it was the most mysterious plot. Most things were very predictable and I had a hard time getting into the story. For the most part I think that the common phrase “Frankenstein was the real monster” isn’t exactly true. The monster killed William, an innocent boy, just to exact revenge upon his creator which is just evil. I do think that by creating the monster and fearing it Frankenstein started its life with disadvantages and from that beginning it grew to hate after being shunned wherever it went, however I believe those murders and misdeeds were out of its own moral, one is understandable given the copious amounts of fear it probably possessed but to frame an innocent servant

The novel commences by a series of letters between Robert Walton, a captain of a ship on a dangerous mission to the North Pole and his sister back in England. The mission is soon compromised by seas of impassable ice blocks. There, he finds Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling across the ice by a dog-drawn sledge and weakened by the cold. Walton takes Victor aboard and hears Victor’s captivating story of the monster that he created. Within the story, Victor leaves home to go to the University of Ingolstadt. There, he studied natural philosophy and chemistry. He spends months building together a creature and regrets it after he’s brought it to life. Victor realizes that because he hate the fact that he brought the creature to life, the

Frankenstein is a well-known “monster” that was created by a gifted scientist. He came alive through lightning surging through his body. He appeared to have a dark green complexion, black hair and was very tall. Frankenstein has the appearance of a human but is unable to speak. He scares not only the scientist but also the townspeople. Frankenstein is most seen during Halloween when people either dress up as him or watch the movies and fear him. When I think of the name “Frankenstein” I think of something to fear because of it being closely related to horror. People fear what the unusual can do to them. I believe that the novel will be from the perception of the scientist and how he came to build Frankenstein and his troubles with Frankenstein

In the book Frankenstein, many people mistakenly referred to the monster as Frankenstein, but really that was the scientist who created the monster’s name, Victor Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was only sixteen years old when she started writing Frankenstein. The book was published two years later, in 1818. Frankenstein was considered the first ever science fiction novel. A ghost story competition is what gave Shelley the idea to write the book. This book shows the power of evil and monstrosity, not just in the actual monster, but also in the scientist, Victor Frankenstein. From his hideous appearance, and how he was created, to his mischievous actions, the monster shows the most upfront form of evil. His creator, Frankenstein, shows a more deep down, true evil, from his selfishness, obsession, and hatred with his monster.

By depicting his environment as an enabling force behind Victor’s evilness, Shelley asserts that nature is a driving force for redemptional acts. While making his decision to not create a female companion for his monster, Victor operates under the dark of the night. However, instead of doing whatever he pleases whenever he pleases, he waits for an opportunity where “the moon” is “overspread by a thick cloud”, and “[takes] advantage of the...darkness” to finally rid himself of both his new creation, and his guilt (161). As an avid nighttime worker, the moon functions as a sun-like object of sorts for Victor, as it illuminates his world, and allows him to work. However, just like when there is a lack of sun, a lack of moonlight symbolizes a shift

Victor’s selfish desire to control life through science leaves him in a predicament that he is unable to fix. His immediate regret in constructing his Creature is based from a shallow point rather than a moral one, causing him to abandon what was once his beloved project. After slaving endlessly for two years Victor looks upon his Creature with horror. “[He] had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that [he] had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished,”(Shelley 43). It was, in fact, a dream that Victor worked towards. He hoped to create a being from the dead that bestowed life with his own hands and somehow has no remnants of death. As a child, he was looked upon like a God by his parents and still in youth he maintained control over his dear Elizabeth. In his mind, it seemed attainable to be a creator next and his goal of creating life itself has failed in his eyes because it is hideous. The Creature has been successfully formed and yet Victor looks at him with “breathless horror and disgust filled [in his] heart,”(Shelley 43). Victor is described as wealthy and handsome, therefore having no empathy for an unattractive being, even one he brought into existence. He unapologetically flees and dismisses the Creature, allowing an innocent mind to enter a chaotic and judgmental world. Victor, fully aware that he has unleashed an unnatural being, makes no effort to correct the damage he has done. Shelley uses Victor as a demonstration for the