The Most Monstrous Being In Mary Shelley's Novel, 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Personal tragedies and the way people are raised from the beginning effect what kind of person they become. Frankenstein is a gothic fiction tragedy written by Mary Shelley in 1818. Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who dedicated his life to creating a new species. Victor does achieve this dream of his. However, Victor creates what he thinks is an evil monster. The monster is the most evolved character because he develops humanlike emotions, gains valuable knowledge, and revengeful to those around him.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is alienated from society because he looks deformed and hideous. In romantic writing, in one looks normal then he or she would be considered good but if one looks unpleasant then he or she is considered evil. The creature was ostracized from society because of his appearance which is similar to how Shelley was shunned by society because of her liberal actions. The creature was excluded from society because society's values were based on appearances.

Throughout Excerpt 1, Victor was revealing how he thought about the monster from when he first created till the monster killed his families. As it was written in Excerpt 1, “Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.” Even after so long, when Victor has the chance to look back, he will still feel the excitement and the passions that he once had, as if he was still young. However, at the end of Excerpt 1, Victor believed the creature, the Monster, that he once created with his love deserved to be miserable, lonely and killed by him because the Monster had destroyed both his and his families’ lives. As it was shown in the passage, ‘He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness, in evil.’

Most of us are taught that we should not judge a book by its cover. However, do we actually understand what does that mean? Well, we may know its meaning, but we do not know how to apply it into creating our relationships. Because of that, we casually hurt people around us. Correspondingly, there is a famous novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley. Centuries ago, future of a person was naturally decided from the day they were born. However, Shelly’s novel is biased against that idea; to him, personalities of a person are shaped by the environment in which they live. In Frankenstein, we are strongly impressed by the Creature, which is a result of Victor’s operations, especially the Creature’s development. At the time he is created, he observes

The real monster in the novel is the creator and the all so ambitious Victor Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein is a very determined and obsessive character that tries to accomplish the impossible. Victor Frankenstein's ultimate goal is to create a new form of human species that will have physical and mental qualities far superior than the present day human being. To accomplish this impossible feat, Victor knows he must commit endless hours of his time and life to reach this seemingly impossible task. While although Victor does ultimately achieve his goal, Victor Frankenstein undergoes major changes before and after the completion of his prototype. The goal Victor set out to accomplished seemed rewarding and in his eyes something that will be

Response Three In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, people may learn in volume I, chapter VI to volume II, chapter IV how Frankenstein accuses his creation of killing William. Frankenstein believes this because “indeed every human being, was guiltless of this murder” (Shelley 53). When the people accused Justine of the murder of William. It demonstrated that people judge a person too quickly.

On the contrary, he characterizes the creature having “...dull yellow eyes...”; the negative use of the word “dull”, proves the fact that, to Victor, the creature is still dead. There is also his use of sarcasm, as if he is noticing his feelings changing; he stated that: