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The Real Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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To see if Frankenstein is a real monster we would have to know what a monster is, you can look at pictures, check the definition or as people what a monster is.I am going to use definitions for this project and the Google definition of a monster is “an imaginary creäture that is typically large, ugly, and frightening.” Frankenstein fits into these categories, except is he really a monster? We read an excerpt from the Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and from there we had a socratic seminar and discussed our thoughts about it. As a class we thought Frankenstein wasn’t a monster. Yes, he fits into the definition of a monster but he also had human like characteristics. He could talk, walk, he loved, he had hulk like strength, and he had thoughts, so why isn’t he human? To figure out what a human is we …show more content…

In the movie we had seen how Frankenstein was brought about, how he performed to being alive, how he adapted, and we got to see the real Frankenstein. Reading the book you do not get to see what/how Frankenstein did. You can imagine it but it is not the same as seeing it. Victor, Frankenstein’s maker was just curious with the works Doctor Waldman, he also was curious on if you could bring a dead human back to life with electricity. Doctor Waldman showed Victor his work, and this journal, Victor was not allowed to see what was in this journal because it told all the secrets to their work, but Doctor Waldman did not want him to actually do this. After, Doctor Waldman died, Victor had stole his journal and he followed the procedure as Doctor Waldman wrote down. Victor thought it did not work after he did the procedure but it did. Once, Frankenstein was brought about Victor cased him out of his apartment. Victor thought it was the last of Frankenstein but it was

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