The Three Little Pigs In Frankenstein

With Victor’s knowledge he succeeded at making a living creature but failed to create a human being, he ended up created a monster who turned into a killer. The monster is the one to blame the murders of people close Victor like his brother William Frankenstein, friend Henry Clerval and Elizabeth his wife. The monster attempts to fit into human society but is rejected due to his hideous appearance which causes him to seek revenge on Victor for creating him. William was the first victim the monster met, he revealed he is a Frankenstein which caused the monster to act out in rage.“Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy-to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim” (Shelly 122).Once realizing who the boy was, the monster acted out and murdered William. The monster had no intention of killing William until he realized who he was related to. Victor is the one to blame for the death of his own brother due to the dangerous creation he made. The monster felt lonely and abandoned by the world causing him to want Victor to create him a mate who would be just like him.Victor ended up destroying the half finished creation right in front of the monster and refused to continue. The monster once again filled with rage, and threatens Victor. “It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night” (Shelley 143). Victor then wonders who the next victim will be, he knows the monster is angry at what he has done. Henry Clerval’s body was a piece of evidence showing the monster was involved once again. “He had apparently been strangled; for there was no sign of any violence, except the black mark of fingers on his neck” (Shelley 149).The monster took out

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

The reader can immediately see this because the Monster says, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” (Shelley 124). He begins to murder members of Victor’s close friends and family. His first victim is William Frankenstein. The Monster has no intentions to kill William, but he says, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed” (Shelley 116). The Monster shows his frustration with Victor creating him in this way and for making him into an outcast. After Victor breaks his promise of creating a female monster, the Monster murders Henry Clerval. The Monster’s anger continues to build up over time and he believes the only way to face it is by taking the lives of those who have a close relationship with Victor. The Monster kills Elizabeth Lavenza on her wedding night. He takes the lives of the people who are in a close relationship with Victor due to the anger he feels toward him. The violence the Monster uses is his way to try and seek revenge on Victor because he feels that he set him up to fail, to be an outcast, and to be unacceptable to

His friend from home comes to surprise Victor but he ends up consoling him for months — he does not want to confront the horrors he has single handedly created. He is such a disaster that he cannot write his family, only putting them under more stress. Finally, after months go by Victor begins to regain his mind and consciousness. He receives a letter from his father stating that his child brother was murdered. This, of all things, is what finally pushes Victor to return home to his family. Once Victor has returned to his family he realizes what exactly he had done. Victor’s creation had made its way to his family’s home and had taken the life of his brother. Not only is has the life of this young child been stripped away but Justine, a family friend, has been accused of killing the poor boy. Justine had never done anything but love and care for the child as if he were her own. He claims Justine’s innocence but he does not come clean— he cannot. If Victor were to mention that of a monster he would be institutionalized and Justine would still be found guilty. Justine is put to death, the second being stripped of life at the his monster. Victor feels “a weight of despair pressed on [his] heart,” (Shelley 111). These murders are the fault of Frankenstein and the weight he feels is overwhelming guilt. Without the construction of a new life, of a monster, these lives would not be lost… still he manages to fond great comfort in

After two innocent victims die in the hands of Victor because of the monster’s thirst for revenge, the monster confronts his creator insisting “Thy justice…is most due” . As he begs Victor to create another being, a female partner as hideous as he is, he admits the hurtful remorse he feels of his actions, promising “I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.” This reveals the monster understands right from wrong, justice from injustice, as he realizes he should stop his murder

Originally able to persuade his creator to create a companion, the monster follows Frankenstein to a remote island to see its wish realized; near completion, Frankenstein destroys his work to prevent a potential “race of demons” in addition to the monster’s one chance at beating loneliness. Victor’s negligence toward his creation throughout the novel arguably turned it wicked, leading to the monster’s strangling of William, the framing of Justine, the murder of Henry Clerval and Elizabeth, and the inadvertent death of Alphonse. While the monster has a lengthy death toll, its innocence and kindness are shown through its reaction to spring and the elements, willingness to learn, collection of wood and admiration for the cottagers, enjoyment of books such as Paradise Lost, and the friendly recollection of the family that rejected it despite the kindness it had shown to them. The bad acts interact with the good revealed the monster to be human, with the capacity to commit both extremes. The seriousness of its murderous rampage was dulled by its kindness and desperation for a companion. If Victor had accepted responsibility for his creation and tended to it, all horrid acts might have been avoided

“Victor finds himself farther and farther removed from the boundaries of society as he falls deeper and deeper into his passionate consumption.” (Bangerter 3). Victor lost his ability to communicate with his family and his fascination with the monster brought them closer throughout the book. Victor never learned until the end that the monster was only killing to keep his attention and hopefully bring them together. Once again, Freud would tell us that through his id he created the monster as his mother and his Oedipus complex was the reason for his attraction to the monster. “Frankenstein wanted to recreate his mother but he instead made a creature comprised of socially repressed elements of his wish for his mother.” (Hicks 1).

As the reader digs deep into the novel, it becomes clear that the monster started his life in a state of innocence. However, he soon acquired language and learned that life truly was a competition. He needed to fend for himself. He needed to gain skills and figure out how to survive. But the creature soon learned of his capabilities. He could strike fear into anyone who laid eyes on him. He could also kill any human being that decided to cross his path. So after learning that life was genuinely grueling for him, the monster desired to escape his life of solitude. He approached Victor demanding a lady creature. When Victor eventually refuses to create this creature for the monster, he finally collects all of the power he possesses and decides to turn against Victor for ruining the only hope that the monster had in life. From that point on, the monster uses his physical power to wreck havoc on Victor’s life in every way possible. Without the physical power that Victor gave him when he was created, the novel would not have been so full of hatred and anger. Most importantly, his physical strength and power was the reason this novel was so gruesome and terrifying. It brought an end to many lives, including Victor’s

When the monster returns, he learns of the family’s sudden plans to move away. With no other direction, the monster seeks out answers from his creator. He comes across Victor’s papers, which reveal his identity and residence. With his newfound information, the monster decides to find his way to Victor. Throughout his journey his curiosity begins to turn into hatred and rage towards his creator. As he treks across the continent he discloses, “the spirit of revenge is enkindled in my heart” (119). This shows the monster’s capability of harboring dark emotions; it shows his benevolence quickly slipping away.

Committing the murders of Victor’s family in vengeance had led the monster to seek his creator in remorse after Victor’s passing. The monster meets Walton at his enemy's corpse, revealing his regret saying, “I knew that I was preparing myself for deadly torture; but I was the slave, not the master of my impulse…” (Shelley 198). He let the anger take grasp of his intents, and his once pure desires are now controlled by his craving for revenge. This quote illustrates that the monster is not the slave of his creator, as Victor says, but rather the slave of his own instinct. Continuing on his confession to Walton, the monster states, “When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and...the majesty of goodness” (199-200). Furthermore, the monster is subdued by guilt, yet his anger overpowers him, making the monster turn a blind eye to humanity. As a character who had potential for goodness, his life could have directed towards his own hopes, where he feels love and sees the wonder of humanity. The monster knowingly diverges from this promising path as the rage he held against humans molds his own morality. He sets out with hope for compassion, though in the fullness of time, his hate leads him to be blinded by his

An example of this is when the Creature is first introduced to Victor’s younger brother, William, in the fields where the Creature was attempting to seek refuge. The Creature attempts to stop the boy with hopes of befriending him, when instead, the boy screams at the Creature, telling him he was the son of a Frankenstein. This triggers the Creature, recognizing the name an becoming enraged. He proceeds to kill the boy, with hopes “this death will carry despair to [Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him,” (Shelley 155). These emotions internalized in the Creature cause him to commit heinous acts in order to ruin the life of his nemesis. The negativity of the Creature demonstrates an even further rise in his emotions, giving way to a tension between the characters that is furthered as the text proceeds.

The monster believed that Victor would accept him, but after he realized that not only did Victor not want to assume his position in the monster’s life, but society also rejected him, it became a transitory thought, and instead became replaced with his bloodthirst towards Victor and his loved ones, which he knew would hurt way worse than just killing him; making him lonely like himself. Both Victor and the monster partook in horrid acts, in which held horrendous actions; the main one being Victor creating the monster in the first place which in result caused the both of them heartbreak, loneliness, and pain. If Victor wouldn’t have created the monster, then his life would not be filled with so much grief and emptiness; Victor is the true monster, although they are both the primal protagonists as much as they are the antagonists because of the display of the emotions they both portray as lamenting humans/monsters, and the power they give to nature in order to destroy one another. Victor used nature to his advantage, although it was wrong; Victor used nature to create and destroy the monster; he used the

The monster already angry with the humans because of the way he was treated by the cottagers reacted when they saw him and his apparent “reward” when he saved that women from the river. He believed that if he took in a child or stole one forcefully he could teach and make the child understand that he is an ordinary being. Without realizing it the child was a Frankenstein and killed him “Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy-to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim (Shelley 62).” The second time the creature took his revenge was when he killed Victor’s best friend Henry Clerval right after Victor had broken his promise to create the monster a companion.

The Monster learned about society from the periphery, looking in and without the growth structures and parameters that were traits in Victors’ upbringing. Due to this he does not know the boundaries of correct human behaviour and has not been taught what is socially or morally right and wrong. Instead he has learned it from books such as Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ and from his observations of the Delacy family. It is this recognition of his ability to perform intellectual realisations made evident in his reference to Milton “remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel”, that allows Victor to eventually recognise him as a human being and no longer merely a personification of a scientific experiment. This however is overshadowed by his hatred of The Monster for the murders of firstly his brother and causing the death of Justine, but later his wife and best friend Henry. The Monster hopes that by telling Victor of the compassion he has witnessed and heard from his time watching Felix and Safie that Victor may allow a relationship to develop but this has the opposite effect and highlights the fact that because of the secret of The Monster, Victor allowed Justine to die.