The Role Of The Monster In Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein

However, as soon as the creature opened it's eye Frankenstein realised the horror of what he had done, "These luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set shrivelled complexion straight black lips." This description now makes the creature seem more like an old corpse that should still be in it's grave, a zombie that has escaped and come back to live on Earth once more. Frankenstein is also no longer seeing the miracle of science which he had strived to create, deprived himself of rest and health for, cut himself away from those that he had once loved and who loved him for, instead, he is seeing a monster. The creature however, had no way of knowing how frightful he looked and did not know why everyone who saw him ran away or screamed, "his flight somewhat surprised me" He does not know how he looks or how others perceive him so the attacks he endures from the villagers of wherever he was travelling through confuse and surprise him.

The creature has his own forms of narcissism just like that of the other characters. The creature is selfish, he believes that if he has to be alone than Frankenstein does also; he is the only one who can have him. The creature kills three people who are close to Frankenstein: William his older brother, Henry his friend, Elizabeth his wife, and essentially Justine. The monster kills William out of rage because he is a Frankenstein and he wanted to get back at his creator. He kills Elizabeth because Frankenstein refused to make him a female companion. Society has shunned the creature; and he acts out because it is the only way in which Victor will notice him.

In the first portion of this novel, Frankenstein secludes himself from the rest of the world in order to create life. He worked tirelessly until his creature came to life; unfortunately, he realized that he created a hideous monster soon after. Because of his fright and countless months of intense dedication to his studies, he grew weak and fell ill. I believe

As Frankenstein is the creator of the creature the creature’s fate lies is the hands o f Victor. Just as it may be believed at least in those times that the fate of all men lay in the hands of God. In making life Victor achieved achieve his goal of playing god and being a leader of a whole race, but in doing so he forgot his leadership, responsibility the ability to change the course of that one creatures life was to much and therefore coursed destruction. It is this, which proves Frankenstein faulty, he tried and reached only halfway he was unable to govern and therefore failed in his short attempt. Just as if a bad captain of a ship caused a mutiny against himself.

In Shelley’s novel, the Creature is responsible for the murder and destruction of his creator, Frankenstein’s, family members and eventual life. The Creature, throughout the novel, is identified as a “monster,” which can be defined as, “one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character; a threatening force”

The creature poses a direct danger to innocents connected to Frankenstein, one that has already been carried out in the cases of William, Justine, and Henry Clerval. The creature becomes infinitely dangerous because he is “fearless, and therefore powerful.” (pg. 123) With nothing to lose and no intent other than causing unending harm to Frankenstein, who thwarts his last effort at happiness, the creation becomes a monster, a desperate, hateful animal. However, despite base the intent and actions of the creation, the blame and responsibility still falls to the creator, who spurned and destroyed the creature’s chance at contentment, driving him to his nefarious deeds.

Frankenstein worked to become the God of a master race that he created. Frankenstein robbed graves of limbs, teeth, organs, and tissue in order to begin his perfect race of beings. In Frankenstein’s tale, he explains that “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! 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; but these luxuriances 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.”(Shelley, 42). Frankenstein created a monster with no deficiencies physically, as creature virtually had the perfect human frame. The creature had superhuman qualities, as Frankenstein describes an encounter he had with creature, “As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.”(Shelley, 80). The animation of creature marked a pivotal point in humanity, as Victor Frankenstein has accomplished no other scientist had, he animated a creature with abilities that nothing could surpass. Overall, Frankenstein worked to push the bounds and limits of science

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, scientist Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of life and avidly works to carry out his discovery by building his own creature. His feverish experimentation, though successful, results in a disappointment; after the creature opens its eyes, Frankenstein revulsion causes him to abandon this mockery of his original imagination to society’s brutality. Though made of human parts, the Creature is unable to present himself so, initially lacking both the verbal communication skills and aesthetically uniform appearance of humanity. The Creature’s desires for companionship, emotional needs, and capacity for empathy are consistent with human beings, but his outward appearance is inherently unnatural. Shunned

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The essential question of what does it mean to be human? Is answered with the help of this novel by making us consider how the creature in any way or form part human. Humans create other humans naturally through sexual reproduction instead of being artificially made such as the creature. Through the critical lens of Romanticism, humans are often depicted to have emotions, belief in one another that they are all good, free thought, Individuality, language, and aiding one another. The creature, even though he was sewn together by Victor Frankenstein from parts of deceased humans is considerably part human. The creature loved everything about life, believed all humans are good until the events that turned his heart into stone, spoke fluently in French, risked his own life to save another, sacrificed his own convenience to help the DeLaceys, and

He has a green color to him with scars that have been stitched up. He was very intimidating, the kind of creature you didn't want to be around. People felt unsafe around him before they even gave him a chance. Because of how others treated him, Frankenstein's monster felt rejection and sadness. He felt like

Victor Frankenstein did not know what he was doing he just wanted to make a monster. He couldn't decide if he should do a animal or a person he didn't know what he purpose of this will be be wasn't sure what he should name him he had no clue about anything. The main reason why he wanted to make a monster was because for so long he only wanted a friend he was so lonely for so long he just wanted to make a friend for himself. “i began the creation of a human being.” He really wanted a human friend but then he thought how cool it would be to have a pet as a monster and how they can do cool tricks. As the creation was still going on he just began to form him and see what he would get out of the creation. “Although i processed the capacity

Some say that Frankenstein just looks like a horrific monster but inside he truly isn’t. I say that Frankenstein acts and looks like a horrific monster because: he murdered a lot of people, the monster had a brain from a criminal, the brain he received was also abnormal, and he threw a little girl into the water and left her to drown. Frankenstein is truly a horrific and terrible monster. To begin with, Frankenstein has murdered a lot of people.

So the process of the monster how frankenstein created the monster. So he was said that he has possessed the bestowing animation yet he frame the reception of it. “it's intricacies of fibers, muscles, and veins still remained a work inconceivable difficulty and labour” (Shelley 35). So the way that frankenstein explain his creation with beautie, was that “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his feature as his beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! 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; but these luxuriances 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”. (Shelley 35) So when created the monster he was talking about how ugly and the body freaked him out how the he put them together saying “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 35) So frankenstein has been working on the creation of the monster for two years and the sole purpose of it was infusing life into an inanimate body.

The relationship between Frankenstein and his creature begins as an attentive parent and beloved child. Frankenstein labors over his creature for two years, piece by piece constructing the creature 's body. He works with one anatomical feature at a time, from raw materials supplied by "the dissecting room and the slaughter-house" (55), which he then brings to life using an unspecified process. However, the moment the creature comes to life, he is repulsed and horrified by its grotesque appearance. He had dreamed of the creation of a beautiful and kind beings,

This seems to be his central mistake, and the epicenter of his downfall, because the speed of his assemblage disregards the essential evolutionary details. There are several consequences to this. First, it is immeasurably apparent that it is Frankenstein’s creature’s appearance, resulting from this lack of care for the essential details, which makes the creature into a monster. The creature tells Frankenstein this himself in his relation of his intellectual and social growth; though his readings about human nature suggested that acquaintanceship, over time, would allow him to overcome his personal deformity, the creature learns that his appearance overpowers his intellectual prowess— and with it, any hope at friendship with his cottagers. At this moment of realization, “overcome by pain and anguish”, the monster’s “heart sunk within [him] as with bitter sickness”, and whole-hearted rage takes over his countenance for the first time (Shelley 160). Thus, the creature tells Frankenstein, he “gave vent” to his “anguish in fearful howlings” like “a wild beast that had broken the toils” (Shelley 160). The emphasis placed on this moment suggests that Shelley intends this as the turning point of monstrosity: where before the creature sought human