Essay on The True Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

As a result, this can lead to disobedience and unethical acts that can result in violence. This is shown within the book. That due to the lack of basic needs, the “monster” kills William, the brother of Victor.  What led to his shameful phase, was the painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong. That he knew that he killed William, but due to Victor actions and behaviors of Mistrust, his only way to learn was to demonstrate violence. The monster states, “I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet… clapping my hands, my enemy is not impregnable.” This offers some evidence on why he continued the murder, he wanted to deeply hurt the person that forsaked him. He wanted to have pride, rather than shame, but it was inevitable.

In this essay I will be discussing who really is portrayed as the monster in her gothic horror novel, Frankenstein or “The Modern Prometheus”. Frankenstein was written in 1816, (thought by many to be the first real science fiction novel) during the age of Romanticism and it tells the story of a selfish man, Victor Frankenstein, whose ambition conducts him to seek for supernatural powers and leads him to death. He is a young scientist, eager to discover something new, the key to life, help to make scientific advances and let other scientists get a better idea of how the body works and who after studying chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of like, leading him to create a monster that becomes

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

The monster knows his master and knows that Victor wishes he hadn’t created him and this makes the monster feel terrible about himself. He also knows that Victor feels like he played a hand in every person that his creation murders and the Monster learns to use this to his advantage. He does what he know will hurt his master the most, be kills Victor's friends one by one. This twists Victor and sours his very being. It turns him into a completely different person and killing his creation becomes his goal in life. He went from an energetic and curious young scientists to a old, licentious man bent on killing. The monster felt that he was getting back at his master but probably didn’t fully understand what he was doing by killing. He never had anyone teach him how twisted and evil taking a life is and as a result it was relatively easy for him to nullify a human being. Society had shunning him because of his horrific appearance from the first time they saw him and never looked back. He stands at an intimidating eight feet and is crafted of mangled human corpses, not exactly a common looking being. While he might at looked strange or scary, he had the mind of a very young child what needed guidance. Because of Victor’s guilt, he never gave the monster the teaching that it really needed. This feeds into the cycle and really makes the problem that ends up killing several people and twisting Victor into someone no reasonable person would strive to

This leads to Victor being secluded and not allowing anyone else into his life and remaining alone. In contrast with Victor’s effect of isolation the monster had undergo a different result from the effects of isolation. After trying countless times to get excepted into society the monster’s alienation led to stray on an evil path. The monster is the victim of injustice when he goes to help a little girl from drowning and is shot by her father as he presumed the monster to be a villain. After being shot the monster says: “My daily vows rose for revenge-a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured” (146).

Rather than just killing Victor, however, the monster decides to kill his loved ones. The death of a potential companion in the world incites the monster to create even more death.

Once Victor Frankenstein manages to bring to life the horrible creature, however, Frankenstein regrets his action immediately after seeing this hideous and gigantic creature; Victor then becomes frightened and flees to his home. The monster instantly became infuriated at the sight of his creator leaving him, the monster felt abandoned and alone. When Victor returns, he finds the monster has vanished and that the monster murdered his brother. The monster yearns for a female companion to become happy and implores Victor to create another monster to keep him company. Frankenstein agrees to create a female companion and then destroys it instantly with the thought of him creating another monster like the one he had already made. The monster watched Victor create and then destroy his new female companion, which drives the monster to kill the rest of Victor’s close friends and family in an attempt to make Victor to suffer as he does. The monster wants his creator to feel the pain and isolation as the monster has his whole life. The monster continues to search for love and Victor suffers as the result of his immoral actions. Victor Frankenstein returns home to his father after he was rescued at sea, where he shortly after, dies of grief. The creature then realizes that his monstrous ways was not the answer to his pain and suffering, the creature mourns over his creator and then dies as well. Killing the monster is not always the

Although, he does not appear as a monster in common daylight, when he is alone, in the shadows, his monster like qualities can be seen. These qualities first become distinctive in chapter five. Once Victor awakens the “monster” he has been working on, he comes to a realization; “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (page 60). This statement informs the reader that, Victor has been working towards a cruel goal in which, he creates a “monster” that he cannot even bare himself. His motivation to create a monster of this sort, helps the reader confirm that his behavior is not normal, instead it is cold-blooded. On page 63, Victor’s friend, Henry Clerval, vocalize his recognition of Victor’s inhuman behavior by asking him “what, for God’s Sake, is the matter? […] How ill you are!”. This expression made by Victor’s friend confirms that the abominable behavior that Victor has, is seen through his actions and thoughts in other ways than just the “monster” he

Much like with their revenge, neither chooses to wallow in thoughts of possibilities and would rather to attempt to do something. The Monster climatically decides his own fate, fully aware of his and Victor’s regret regarding his

He soon puts his work together and brings the monster to life, but instead of enjoying his creation he was dissatisfied with it and is terrified by his creation and runs away. He denies its existence and simply removes himself from the situation. Victor hated the monster for how hideous it was, but mainly because he had made it himself and had expected it to be a wonderful, strong, smart, and also enjoys his creator. When he sees what he has really created during his long period that he has been isolated turns to horror, fear and overwhelming disappointment at what he considers his project as a failure. He took his ambition of immortality too far without thinking about the negative outcome and how it might affect

     Towards the end of the novel, the presence of a defined protagonist and antagonist becomes unclear. Victor becomes obsessed with killing the monster, and the monster becomes obsessed with putting Victor through torture. Both of these flaws of hubris lead to both downfalls. Victor ends up dying trying to kill the monster, and the monster kills’ himself seeing that Victor is dead. Both the monster and the Victor could be called the antagonist at the end of the novel because both with to harm each other.

After months of empty sleep and tireless work, Victor succeeds, his ambition finally pays off, right? Not as he thought, the being he has brought into the world is hideous, unfit for the work of Victor, and so he abandons the monster. This happens to create more risks because of his success, and abandonment, his creation now seeks revenge. Eventually his ambition in creating such an unstable risk comes back to bite him. As the monster slowly strangles more and more members of Victor's family, not only making him suffer deep emotional scars, but great illness, constantly getting sick, almost to the point of Suicide. However he is offered a compromise, he is to give the monster a companion in exchange for the monsters forgiveness. Victor begins his work desperate to get the monster off his back, his work could now do some good in keeping the monster away from him. But, he thought to himself that if the monster were to have a companion, then it would only create more problems. A new race might emerge, and so upon near completion of his work for the agreement he destroys everything he has done. The monster is furious and promises to see Victor on the day of his betrothal to his wife. In an attempt

this is reflected in the book. The book had a sub title - The Modern

Even after being rejected, the monster gave Victor another chance. The monster asked him to create a partner for it. But Victor denied the monster’s request. He thought that if he creates another monster, both of them together would only increase his problems. He wondered “Perhaps the two monsters would hate each other… and would kill. And murder, and destroy… without end.” (Page 37) So he cut the body of the female monster he made. This made the monster furious and more violent. The monster killed every person Victor loved and also became the reason for his death at the end. Here, the killings symbolizes the hatred of the

     The monster is created towards the beginning of the story as a middle-aged creature. He may be characterized as manipulating, and intelligent, and from kind by nature to malevolent. He is a round character, is described as being eight feet tall, and simply hideous. The monster kills Victor?s younger brother, friends, and lover, and does not stop until Victor himself is ruined and killed. He may easily be considered Victor?s downfall. The monster is never named, so he is referred to as his description, a monster or a daemon. He wants, more than anything, a companion. The monster tells Victor, ?You are my creator, but I am your master? (116) after his heart turns cold from lack of love.