Victor Frankenstein's Monster

In the letters that Robert Walton sent to his sisters, there is legit evidence that he was encountering difficult circumstances when he met Victor Frankenstein. When Walton's vessel was sailing to the Northern Pole they encountered heavy fog and lots of ice. Walton's exact words were, "...we were nearly surrounded by ice" (8). and he also exclaimed, "...we were compassed round by a very thick fog" (8). Also, while they were trapped in the ice surrounding them, they saw a gigantic figure going on along the ice which befuddled the crew because as Walton had said in his letters, "We were, as believed, many hundreds of miles away from any

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.” -Victor Frankenstein

What is a monster? The word "monster" causes one to imagine a hideous, deformed or nonhuman creature that appears in horror movies and novels and terrifies everyone in its path. More importantly, however, the creature described generally behaves monstrously, doing things which harm society and acting with little consideration for the feelings and safety of others. "Thus, it is the behavior which primarily defines a monster, rather than its physical appearance"(Levine 13).

Who is the real monster?” acts as the dominant question throughout the novel “Frankenstein” written by Mary Shelly as the reader explores the protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his nameless creation. As the novel progresses, the reader notices how the relationship between the two characters goes far beyond a neglectful creature and resentful creation, for the two influence the thoughts, actions and emotions of each other. Furthermore, the creature’s physical appearance acts as his purpose throughout the novel as well as a mirror of Victor Frankenstein’s true identity. Additionally, the creature’s lack of identity begins to initiate Frankenstein’s shame towards his own identity, revealing the flawed character of Frankenstein and determining the resolution to the question “Who is the true monster? Who is the true catalyst of destruction?” During the novel, the reader is able to identify the creature as the most effective foil for Victor Frankenstein because the creature causes: Frankenstein to view the action of the creature as his own work, the shift between pride and shame in Frankenstein, and his physical appearance demonstrates his purpose to reveal the true character of Victor Frankenstein.

In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is the true monster, not the creature himself.

Growing up in a world learning a set of rules that are taught by love ones and then being push out of the world by following them. In Mary Shelley 's life, she grew up listening to her father 's rules then being looked down upon by being with someone she loved. She is young and is trying to find herself in the world. The story Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley looks through the three characters of Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature. The characters each have a different goal to achieve. When they achieve that goal, gaining the knowledge will either improve their well being or turn into a disaster. In Shelley 's Frankenstein, the attainment of knowledge does improve and corrupt each of the characters through the perspective of literary allusion, science, and Gothic horror.

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster whose appearance brings ineffable terror and destruction into his life. However, the monster’s appearance and actions are not an accurate representation of the monster and are influenced by many outward factors that ultimately trace back to his creator. The monster’s grotesque outward appearance acts as a mirror as it reflects the true inward qualities of Victor as well as shows the flaws and abnormalities of the relationship between Victor, society, and the monster.

As many months pass in the eighteenth century, Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a giant monster out of other deceased humans. As soon as the monster comes to life, the monster was immediately despised by everyone who he had seen, but the monster just wanted a friend. Nobody seemed to be kind enough to accept the monster.

Certain circumstances bring to light the monster in everyone. In Frankenstein, it can be argued that there are actually two monsters created throughout the story, one of which being the creature, and the other Victor himself. After the creature’s “birth”, Victor exclaims, “...when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived”. Little did Victor know at that time, that his rejection of the creature would result in the death of his brother, fiancé and best friend. The creature felt betrayed by his creator and ventured out into the world, only to find that the rest of the world saw him as a monster just as Victor did. This repeated rejection had a monumental effect on the

A monster is a creation by humans with qualities that are known to make something ugly, large, frightening, and different through characteristic traits and physical appearance. All monsters that are created are known through the tragedies that they’ve created but only because the authors’ intention was to make them a villain. The entire point of creating a monster is to strip human qualities and to create something much more frightening. A monster lives within each and every one of us, not physically representing the depicted descriptions most carry, but the internal emotions and motives that they do. Using the feelings or motives that a human carries which is viewed negatively is then transferred into the imaginary villain that is in disguised

Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein, is a frame work where Victor Frankenstein brings to life the creature. Further in the story the creature learns his creator doesn’t want him, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in the instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?”(275). Victor has done some wrong actions that causes the creature to alter to an evil monster and monster blames creator and seeks revenge towards him.

I have a story, about an orphaned child abandoned in a road where he needed to find food and fend for himself. Nobody took pity on him and left him to die of hunger and in cold. Years passed, his spirit would haunt the village and break into people’s home- killing everyone inside.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there is controversy whether the creature created by Victor is monster or human. The monster shows a variety of feelings and thoughts throughout the book. He’s very intellectual and smart and can feel things like love and emotional pain. But he also has killed multiple people and uses violence to express how he feels. The truth is, he was born human with human thoughts and feelings, but through isolation and mistreatment became a monster.

The floorboards creaked and groaned beneath me as I stumbled through the door to this house that sat on the edge of town. It had lain forlorn for at least a year now, a curtain of moss and debris littered the lawn and porch, the interior of the house was surprisingly in good shape, victorian-era furniture covered by a veil of dust sat by the grand fireplace, the kitchen still had appliances such as a stove, fridge, and microwave. In a place like this, you would think that someone would have broken in and took this stuff to sell or pawn. I walk slowly up the grand staircase, praying that the floorboards wouldn’t crumble beneath me as I trekked to the top. I finally reach the top and let out a sigh of relief, my breath fogs in front of me and

Everybody has their own idea of what a monster is. To some it could be a vicious, three headed, 6 eyed, scaly fire breathing creature, but to another it could simply be a man in long coat that lives down the street. Monsters are never the same to everybody, and look different in the eyes of everybody, even animals. My own concept of a monster isn’t necessarily a big fire breathing lizard beast, or a one eyed humanoid, but actually any being in my eyes that has a certain character flaw that makes them do bad things, or is just downright evil. It isn’t always something that appears frightening, for a book shouldn’t be judged by its cover. A simple man, with a simple look could be out to destroy the world for all you know, or at least ruin your