The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The monster acknowledges that his environment directly affected his behavior and personality. Growing and learning around the cottagers caused him to develop into a kind, caring, and helpful being. In contrast, the monster expresses that if he had learned to behave and act around someone such as a soldier, he wouldn't be the same. Upon the disappointed encounter with Felix, Agatha, and Safie, the monster no longer behaves the same. He expresses this when he says, “There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and… sent me forth to this insupportable misery,” (Shelley 124). He is now hateful, rather than the trusting creature he once was. His environment and experiences have led him to alter his personality and perspective to suit the increasingly disappointment nature of his life.

He is oblivious to the fact that his appearance is horrific and has no knowledge of the concept of evil because he has had no exposure to society (Edwards). The monster does not know that civilized man views his ugly exterior as representative of evil within, so he is baffled when the occupant of a hut he stumbles upon produces a terrified shriek and runs away (Shelley, 105). The monster later comes to know good and evil; virtue and vice; due to the fact that he possesses the faculty of "perfectibility – man's inexhaustible ability to improve himself (…) and be shaped by his environment" (Edwards). This quality of adaptability allows for enlightenment to occur, but is ultimately the source of all of man's misery.

The monster is now able to communicate with other people and it makes him happier. The creatures number one goal in life is to be like the humans and he wants to be accepted into the human world. He believes that this goal is not possible because he thinks that he is hideous and that no one would accept him as a human being. Ever since the creature was created he has been wandering around and observing people. Most of the time, people get scared of how he looks and his appearance is not very promising. All the creature is searching for is acceptance into the world that everyone else is in. As he starts to communicate and do things like a normal person he feels he is one step closer to being accepted but is still afraid he cannot get accepted because of his appearance. “How often did I impreciate curses on the causes of my being!” (Shelley 60)” He is mad that Victor Frankenstein did not make him a more physically appealing creature. The creature is like a human being through his skills of being able to communicate and read. His number one goal is to be accepted by humans. But he is afraid he can’t because of how he

Now the creature knows that it is not only his creator, Frankenstein, who rejects him, but an entire village. He was left “miserable …. from the barbarity of man”. He is not only learning that society dislikes him, but that it is ‘normal’ to attack others. He hasn’t known kindness in his entire life. He doesn’t even know that it exists. The second contact he has with humans, they are being violent. They are not demonstrating any sort of reason, teaching the creature that it is normal to be violent and impulsive.

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

However, when Frankenstein realizes that he has just looked at the body as individual parts, for example the “pearly teeth”, “blue eyes”, “lustrous black hair”, but he had not looked at the body as a whole. When he did, he realized he had created an abomination, “Beautiful-Great God! His Yellow skin barely covered the work of arteries and muscles beneath!” When Frankenstein comes to this realization, he flees, “now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”. Frankenstein regarded the creature as ugly, evil, inhuman, unflattering to the eye, and vulgar, like a monster.

The monster is in need of help from his creator, for he is new to the world and does not know anything about living yet, but instead, he has nobody and is forced to figure life out by himself. Readers understand the monster’s emotion because he says “I sat down and wept”. By understanding his emotion, it will cause readers to feel sympathy for him. This also proves one of the larger themes of the novel, that people should treat others with empathy, because as his creator, Frankenstein should have been able to understand and share his feelings, for he was often alone and left to teach and fend for himself during his studies. Frankenstein’s reject to his creation is what caused the monster to feel so alone, and ultimately, what led to both of their destructions.

In 1818 Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life. The creature kills William, Henry Clerval, and Elizabeth. Victor had promised to make a female creature for the creature, but he did not fulfill his promise. This makes the creature enraged. The creature runs away and Victor follows him. Victor gets on a boat with Walton. Victor dies and the creature comes and is very sad that his creator has died. The creature says that he must end his suffering and he jumps into the ocean. In the novel Frankenstein, Shelley uses the theme of nature to show how it is like the characters of the story and how it affects the characters.

Victor Frankenstein grew up in Geneva. He had a strong interest in reading the works of the ancient and outdated alchemists, and was fascinated by science and the 'secret of life.' One day he decided that he wanted to study further, so Victor actually created a person of his own out of old body parts and strange chemicals. When the creature came to life, he was a hideously ugly beast. The creature does have beauteous features such as ?lustrous black hair,? and ?teeth of pearly whiteness,? but they do not look good because they are out of place in relation to his other features, such as his ?shriveled complexion,? and ?watery

He learns a variety of feelings throughout his observations of the De Lacy family. The monster had been neglected of care his whole life and was “seeking acceptance, company or comfort,”and felt that he couldn’t live his life without human interaction (Codr 68). The monster reached out to the De Lacy’s and was turned down immediately. The monster realized that it was not due to his actions or his approach towards them, but it was rather the fact that “I was terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool”(Shelley 121). He was simply unappealing to the eye, which caused the De Lacy’s to flee from their home. Later down the road, the monster comes across a girl who is seemingly running away from someone or something. She continued on past him

McKenzie Thomas Mrs. Squance CP English 22 October, 2014 The Monster Has Inner Beauty Throughout the novel, the creature created by Victor Frankenstein is depicted as a horridly grotesque giant-like demon. The monster is so foul that he scares everyone who he comes into contact with. But is the monster truly ugly?

She describes the origin of the creature as well as the creation and destruction. It is made up of the scientific method, change the part of the organ and stitch all around the body. Observation of the stitches in his face that's why it looks ugly. “I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.”, “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness.” She described the look of the creature clearly For readers to see the trial of supernatural experiment and the concept that readers can't be predicted because it is in fact not confirmed to confirm. Cause this novel is the mystery and makes readers scare of it. But when looking at the side of Shelley makes the monster can speak. “ His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.” In order to keep readers see, although it is born from a dead piece, it has parts idea, a mind no different with human life. The reader can feel the pure heart of this monster cause sympathy that it can’t choose a new life, but this chance makes it an isolated life because Dr. Frankenstein who creates the monster doesn't want it

Victor, the creature’s father, describes his son as a hideous being. Victor states “a mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. [Victor] had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (Shelley 43). The creature, like any child, should get prettier with age, but he is described as getting uglier.

A main theme throughout the novel is the realization of the monster that he is truly alone in this world. Despite being created by Victor Frankenstein, the monster is, for the most part, left on his own. Although the monster did not realize this at first, through the experiences he had out in the world by himself, he came to learn the sorrow of having no one to care for him. When the creature was first created by Frankenstein, he was described by the scientist in a way which made him already appear disgustingly ugly: His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery

The creature is made up of the appendages of various human bodies. Because of the creatures varying features across the entirety of his body, He has extremely disgusting and horrifying features. “...only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips.” (30) When people all over the world think, “monster,” The image of an ugly, eerie, and strange looking being comes to mind. The creature is ,very accurately, an ugly, eerie, and strange looking creation that is extremely beyond unimaginable. It’s truly difficult to capture what the creature would look like in real life, and this translates to a poor representation of Frankenstein’s creature in modern