The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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

The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, who parallels Milton’s Eve and Satan in many ways, also makes choices based on his envy for human beings and Milton’s Adam. When the creature is hiding out by the De Lacy cottage, he finds books that include Paradise Lost. The creature acknowledges his feelings of envy saying that he feels like Satan because “often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me” (Shelley 90; vol.2; ch.7). The creature is envious of the DeLacey family because they have what he does not: family and friends. The creature is all alone, so he akins himself to Satan feeling envy for The Son, whereas his envy is rather more like Eve’s because his creator made him unequal to other humans, although not on purpose. The creature also envies Adam, of Paradise Lost because he says that “like Adam, I was created apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but... He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with, and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature: but I was wretched, helpless and alone” (Shelley 90; vol.2; ch.7). Although the creature was created in similar circumstances to Adam, he struggles because his creator shunned him and left him to be alone and ugly. The creature, so much like Adam, envies how Adam was loved by his creator.

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.

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

The creature can be considered human because he can feel human emotion such as love, sadness, pain, and lonesomeness. The creature states to the ship’s captain after victors death, "'My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture, such as you cannot even imagine...But when I discovered that he, the author of my existence, sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance'" (Grimly 190). He felt like he was made for hate and then as he grew he learned that victor could choice his

One of the main characters in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a nameless creature created in laboratory by Victor Frankenstein and abandoned by Victor right after its birth. The creature was left alone to learn by himself, to find food, to figure out how the world works. The creature is one of a kind, but he is alone and lonely. While isolated by his appearance he becomes driven by revenge, the creature is feared by everyone it meet, he is abandoned and hated even by its creator. And this loneliness and need for companionship, which he can never have, is the reason for the change from monster by appearance to monster by action.

Growing up in a world learning a set of rules that are taught by love ones and then being push out of the world by following them. In Mary Shelley 's life, she grew up listening to her father 's rules then being looked down upon by being with someone she loved. She is young and is trying to find herself in the world. The story Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley looks through the three characters of Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature. The characters each have a different goal to achieve. When they achieve that goal, gaining the knowledge will either improve their well being or turn into a disaster. In Shelley 's Frankenstein, the attainment of knowledge does improve and corrupt each of the characters through the perspective of literary allusion, science, and Gothic horror.

Throughout Frankenstein, the creature was not looked at as human because of some of his features. He had different features than most humans did. He was very strong, and frightened others by his physical appearance. The creature contains the body parts of other humans. The creature has feelings for others. He has an understanding that he is not like the rest, so he does his best to blend in. He does his best to communicate with other humans. The creature also wants another creature so he is not lonely. Although he was different, he is still considered to be a human being.

Frankenstein looks around curiously in the hallway to see if anyone is watching him. He then sneaks into his room, the same one where the monster was originally created, and quietly shuts the door behind him and locks it securely. However this time all the window are closed and barricaded from the outside with the shutters closed on the inside, making the room pitch black. There are a few lamps scattered around the room which he then lights up. Inside the room, it has been completely cleared in the centre except for a long bench right in the middle with a sheet over top covering something which looks a bit like a person.

Natural or human characteristics are determined through ethics, actions, motivation, and behavior of a character. The monster created by Victor Frankenstein in the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is not a monster at all, in perspective. The monster, has every quality that is required to be considered a human. It has feelings, the ability to learn, and a high intelligence. Along with all this, the monster is even physically made up of human parts including a brain and heart.

dka Prof. Brian Dunnigan ENG 102 April 20, 2016 The Monster Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is a science fiction novel which tells the story about the science student Victor and the Monster, he created. With the help of these two main characters, Shelley is able to show man’s relationship to science and technology, the nature and use of knowledge for good and for evil. Victor’s obsession to find secret behind the human life brings assembled old body parts into life creating the gigantic Monster. Although, Victor has created eight feet tall and physically very strong Monster, his physical appearance is ugly, his mind is a blank slate, and he has no identity.

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.

Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, is a classic piece of gothic literature that brings to light a variety of themes and characters within this plot of gothic literature. One thing that was brought to my attention was how the Monster, that Victor Frankenstein created, are very similar. It is to wonder, is the Monster a representation of Victor’s inner monster? The Monster throughout is shown to be in great pain, especially because he has been isolated and alienated by human beings for his grotesque appearance.

Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” in 1831 and the title of her novel is also known as “The Modern Prometheus.” The reason that Mary Shelley wrote the novel was that because Christopher Bram was known as the author of “Father of Frankenstein.” Who is The Monster? The Monster is creature that was made by Victor Frankenstein. Although The Monster is lonely and ugly, he became a killer and killed Victor’s loved ones throughout the novel.

Today I will be discussing one of the main characters, Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein, by the respected author, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein, commonly mistaken for The Monster, was a well brought up caring son in Geneva. However, even though Frankenstein seemed like a reliable person, his self centered personality got into the way of him reaching his sincere potential. In other words, the University of Ingolstadt graduate began his studies in science and fed his addiction to the creation of The Monster, despite the recent death of his mother. As it states in chapter three “My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate