The Real Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein’s loved ones, his wife Elizabeth Lavenza and his son Wolf, soon die one by one by the monster’s hands as the monster seeks revenge for the mere creation of his life, and even Victor dies himself soon after. These are the occurrences that shaped the tragedy of the story because of the monster’s fooling coexistence in silence among human beings that, however, was not so peaceful in reality as Victor suspected it would be when he let the monster flee prior to its creation, giving no importance to any possible outcomes of his creation. The monster feels abandoned, even casted out in a way because no other person sees a living being within him that deserves compassion and respect due to his appearance. Walton’s final letter describes the monster’s words as Victor lays on his death bed with the monster gazing by his side, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” (Ch.24).

Many of Victor’s actions are questionable, however, that is not to say that all of his actions are inhumane. He shows genuine care for his loved ones, yet few of his actions are inexcusable. As stated, previously he expresses revulsion for the creature by, “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, rushed out of the room…”(Shelley.61). Frankenstein leaves the monster to fend for itself. This action is morally wrong because Frankenstein represents its “parent” and the creature is his “child”. He neglects his own creation and does not take responsibility for it because it is a “mistake”. He does not want to risk his time and reputation for taking care of his own creation. Not only is this immoral, but it is also irresponsible because he avoids it, allowing it to roam without any supervision, and he does not expect any unforeseen consequences that will affect the people around him. Conversely, he portrays his humanity by professing his love for Elizabeth saying, “... yet all that I may one day enjoy is centred in you.”(Shelley.163). People react differently to various things with distaste, however, most have humanity within them, expressing affection to one person or object. These contrasting emotions within Victor, represent his conflicting attributes that integrate with each other. His genuine affection for Elizabeth indicates the goodness exists inside of him and that he not only holds repulsive reactions, representing his moral ambiguity. These actions make it hard to be decisive about Victor’s character because he is very unpredictable. Frankenstein’s actions speak more than words, indicating his moral ambiguity in the

Frankenstein is a classic horror novel, but with a twist of many other genres. Written by Mary Shelley, it was a novel which mixed many exciting elements, such as horror, drama and romance. The story follows a young doctor named Victor Frankenstein, who has an obsession to reincarnate the dead, but his attempts at this fail horribly, and Victor finds himself in deep peril, as the monster stalks him throughout the world. I aim to investigate the issue, however, of who is the true monster in Frankenstein. The monster or Frankenstein himself?

In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the character Victor Frankenstein illustrates betrayal in the way he abandons his creation, with no hesitation he leaves him behind. With the feeling of abandonment ,the creature feels anger towards Victor which leads the “monster” to become a villain. Love and family are all the monster wants, but it is something that Victor could not give due to his own internal battles. As result, the monster begins to take Victor’s loved ones such as: little William and his wife Elizabeth. The monster kills

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

Most Americans have some idea of who Frankenstein is, as a result of the many Frankenstein movies. Contrary to popular belief Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a scientist, not a monster. The "monster" is not the inarticulate, rage-driven criminal depicted in the 1994 film version of the novel. Shelley’s original Frankenstein was misrepresented by this Kenneth branagh film, most likely to send a different message to the movie audience than Shelley’s novel shows to its readers. The conflicting messages of technologies deserve being dependent on its creator (address by Shelley) and poetic justice, or triumph over evil (showed by the movie) is best represented by the

You may wonder why you are hearing different versions and opinions about the story of Frankenstein. Many say that Frankenstein was not as good as he seemed, even though Frankenstein was noble and wanted to be protected and understood. In the student news site of Taylor Allderdice High School “The Foreword”, book review they claim that Victor Frankenstein was the real monster of the story, trying to convince the readers to believe that the real monster was not the villain and Frankenstein was the one to be afraid of. Readers should pay close attention to the story, pay close attention to the character Frankenstein, and see how he has always been a good monster. Frankenstein would always make certain choices to protect people, and would never

In Mary Shelley´s Gothic novel, Frankenstein, the Monster once claimed, “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.” Frankenstein, since the 1910 film adaptation, has known a series of several adaptations that changed drastically, not only the plot but one of the main characters, the Monster, from stealing its creator´s name to being portrayed as a cold villain. Though, in the original storyline, the biggest threat to society is the creator itself, the one pretending to play as God, Victor Frankenstein. This essay will discuss the nature of the main characters of the novel and conclude who is the “real monster” in the end.

In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, a terrifying monster with destructive tendencies is created. The inventor of this monster, Victor Frankenstein, gave himself an impossible goal to complete. The monster was created at the University of Ingolstadt “on a dreary night in November” (Shelley, Pg.58), it was then that Victor accomplished his goal of reanimating the dead. The monster then went out to be brutally judged by society. The monster is the murderer of many and was a contribution to the deaths of others. He killed William, Henry, and Elizabeth and impacted the deaths of Victor and Justine. In spite of these horrible acts of violence, readers still sympathize with the monster.

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

In the book frankenstein it talk about a doctor that created a monster they call him a monster because of how he looks now that not fair. He couldn’t help that his creature made him this way. This so called monster has no friends he just has a heart that what to kill everything. Who can really blame him. His master took one look at him and said “ what have i done he is so hindess he’s a monster” now is that something that you want to wake up to the person that brought you into this world calling you a monster. Just because you look different and not like them. Throughout the whole book people looked at him like a monster just because on how he looked.

Victor had agreed to the creature’s proposition of creating a female monster to be his companion. However, after much thought and consideration in chapter 20 of Frankenstein, Victor abruptly changes his mind and tears the incomplete female monster apart. Victor feels compelled to cease his progress because of the multiple, potentially horrific outcomes. For example, Victor worries that he might create a monster even more horrific and terrifying then the first. When reflecting on the possibility of creating a female monster Victor states, “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness” (page 180). Victor has seen the terror the first monster had unleashed and the horrible

What is a monster, really? Is it really a Creature that has three eyes instead of two, with pus seeping out of every crevice in his face and an abnormally large form? Or is it someone with a mind so corrupt it rivals that of Satan? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a story within a story that centers on the tale of a man with an immense thirst of knowledge and a fetish to imitate the Creator. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a lot like the Greek mythological tale of the Greek God, Prometheus, and his brother, Epimetheus, who were assigned the task of creating man. The story captivates the theme of monstrosity. Mary Shelley wrote the novel in a form so the reader’s opinions never stray far from sympathy for the monster and apathy for Victor

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a science fiction novel mixed with a bit of horror based on Victor Frankenstein, a scientist also known as Frankenstein, and his monster he created. The story involves Frankenstein, his dear cousin Elizabeth, and the monster created by Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a troubled scientist that is not in the best state of mind for most of the book. * The author, Mary Shelley, shows tremendous amounts of development of Frankenstein’s character.

Is the creature a monster or not? Calling it a monster is absolutely absurd. By definition a monster according to google, "an inhumanly cruel or wicked person." The only reason that the being is first associated with the term monster is due to its appearance, because “his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries…his hair was of a lustrous black…his teeth of a pearly whiteness". Although the creature has committed a 'murder', has he done anything wrong from his perspective? The creatures mind hasn't been moulded yet and relies on not current books he found to tell him how the society operates. This books greatly influenced him. Yet throughout the novel the reader is made aware of the compassion and morality that Victor’s”