The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The creature began to converse freely with the blind father who addressed him with kindness. However, when his two children returned, the daughter fainted and the son "dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick" forcing the creature to "quit the cottage and escape unperceived to my hovel" (115). These acts of cruelty emphasize how often humanity stereotypes individuals. Just because a creature looks monstrous does not mean his intentions match his appearance. After this heartbreaking event, the monster decides to stop seeking love and instead to seek revenge against his creator and attempt to force Victor to create a companion for him. The creature attempts to explain his cruel ways when he exclaims, "There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my

The creature is renounced by Victor throughout the book, which removes any positive role model that the creature might have had. The two encounters that Victor has with the creature when it is first created are evidence of his rejection. The first is when Victor finishes creating the creature. During the process of creation, Victor dedicates himself so greatly that he "pursued [his] undertaking with unremitting ardour" (32). He puts aside everything else in his life, and concentrates completely on his purpose, which is to bring a being to life that would serve him. In order to do so, he spent an entire summer "engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit" (32). Because of the hard work that Victor puts into his work of creation, he never really examines the fruits of his labour. He is too caught up in his work, and has "lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit" (32) of finishing his work on making the creature. So in the process of his creation, Victor is never really aware of what he is creating because he is too focused on the actual act of creation. However, when Victor finally finishes the work of making the creature, and takes time to look at what he has done, he is horrified by his accomplishment. As the creation opens an eye, and

The problems with Victor behaved after he made the creature is that he abandoned the creature instead of owning up to his decides. When Victor started his experiment, he was so obsessed with the idea of creating life, but when he finally succeeded it he realise that he made a big mistake. He says in the book that “The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feeling of human nature (Chapter 5 page 47).” He has spent nearly two whole years obsessing over trying to create life just for the beauty of the dream to die after he finished it. Nearly two years of depriving himself of sleep and health just to turn around and fill completed horror and disgust of his creature.

The creature was completely alone. His own creator could not tolerate the sight of him and deserted him. He was left with nobody. The monster explained that he was a "poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing". He had to discover survival,

The enormous difference in the way Victor views the creature before and after its completion shows that he has an altered state of mind while he works on it. As a result of Victor’s secrecy about his creation, he sacrifices his health and happiness to make a creature that disgusts him.

Due to Victor’s unwillingness to accept him, the creature was unable to conform to societal norms. From the creature’s very first moments, he is feared by others - the instant his eyes open, his creator cries out in terror and runs to his quarters. If only Victor had stayed and attempted to nurture his creation, instead of having “turned from [him] in disgust” (93), the creature may have enjoyed a gentle, upbringing in which he

Victor consistently shows many negative characteristics such as the ones aformentioned. These problems in turn caused some of the most tragic events in the story. One of the clearest examples of this was when Victor made an unplanned decision to run from the creature when he was first alive caused the creature to hate Victor and subsequently cause William’s death as well as Henry’s and Elizabeth’s. When the creature meets with Victor on the glacier he discusses how his rage had festered into something out of control because of Victor, stating “This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess”(p.125). The fact that Victor left the creature when the creature needed him most makes him angry that he was alone and without a

The creature was left on its own and once free, and without guidance, it wreaked havoc. Since he did not care for the creature, it ended up leaving his lab and suffering the cruelty of mankind. If Victor had taken responsibility for the creature, it would not have turned evil. Since Victor does not take his responsibility as a creator seriously, he ultimately causes the death of his entire family; something else for which he does not take responsibility. In chapters 8, 16, 21, and 23, the creature kills five people.

In the book the creature didn’t show any intent to harm Victor so there is no logical reason for him fleeing. The only explanation that i can come up with for Victor abandoning his creation was that he was mentally unstable because of sickness, lack of human interaction, and fatigue.

When Victor created the creature, he ran away from his own creation because he

However, Victor, the creature's creator, recklessly gave life to it, leaving it to its own in a cruel, merciless world. Overall, Shelley uses the two characters to express the concept of blame

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Throughout our lives we learn different lessons that teach us all about how the world works. At a very young age we learn how love works. We learn and experience how it hurts but also how comforting it can feel. As we grow older we become lonely and start to look for a partner to hopefully spend the rest of our lives with. For most people it is a successful hunt, but for others who are like the creature it is impossible. The creature was excluded from society the moment he was made because he was different. He had no chance to ever be loved the way that everyone deserves to be. The creature was so desperate that he resorted to basically begging for Victor to create a mate for him the same way that he created him. He was willing to disappear

First, Victor’s irresponsibility of taking care of the creature causes the misery and torment he experiences, ultimately affecting the creature’s demeanor. Furthermore, the creature is initially good before he faces the injustice that mankind has in store for him due to his appearance. On the other hand, Victor’s desire for isolation

While Creature is full of humanity and has a thirst for knowledge, his longing for acceptance in society is met with constant rejection. Through this rejection, it sparks anger into the Creature for his irresponsible creator, Victor Frankenstein. Creature’s anger leads to greater tragedies for Victor. The greater of the tragedies are the murdering of innocent people including Victor’s family that is seen to be the fault of Creature since he is the one who murdered them. If Victor did not abandon the Creature and had taught him murder was not morally correct, Creature would not have committed the heinous acts.When Creature was first theoretically born, he was introduced into the world in a very harsh way. Metaphorically, Creature starts out into the world as a newborn, needing a parent 's guidance and teachings. Victor abandons him immediately with no sense of direction. Creature, after his “birth”, approaches Victor with a hand of longing for compassion. “He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they maybe called, were fixed on me...He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out” (Shelley 35). Victor instead of showing acceptance immediately runs away at the sight of him.