Who Is The Monster In Frankenstein

In Mary Shelly’s Novel Frankenstein the main protagonist is Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein is the creator of the outrageously ugly creature. Frankenstein and the creature’s relationship point out the dangers of being a creator and playing God as Shelly warns us. The first moment when Frankenstein seen his creature he already hated the sight of the creature. Frankenstein already regrets what he created.

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

Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein’s triumph as he reanimates a dead body, and then details his guilt for creating such a thing. When the creation realizes how he came to be, and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator’s loved ones. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portrays Victor Frankenstein as the true monster of the story through the use of literary devices revealing the characteristics that Frankensteins and monsters share, and shows how Frankenstein’s irresponsibility leads to his monstrous labeling.

The Symbolism of the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is one of the most famous and controversial novels in literature. The relationship between Victor Frankenstein and the Monster require the reader to pay a deep attention and analysis of the symbolism of the Monster itself in the novel. Readers come up with different and many assumptions and ideas about what the Monster really symbolizes. Some readers tend to assume that the Monster represents the failure in rising up our children. On the other hand, others argue that the Monster symbolizes disabled people and others believe that it stands for freed slaves.

Just as mankind is accountable for the collective burden of comprehension, the father is responsible for his son. Neither of these expectations are met by Frankenstein. Through biblical allusions, Shelley suggests that Victor’s utilizes scientific mastery recklessly. He wishes to be God, but is not willing to bear even human obligations. At one point, Victor realizes the duties of a creator in bestowing upon him a partner.

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

Victor and the Monster are extremely intelligent. Victor was a master in the sciences and in alchemy, which allowed him to be able to create a living human being out of disposed body parts. He delighted in studying under M. Krempe, a professor of natural philosophy, and M. Waldman, a professor of chemistry. He was gifted in being able to use his eloquence to convince people to do things. This was demonstrated when he was able to persuade the men on Walton’s ship not to perform a mutiny, but rather to be proud at successfully being able to break through the ice instead of giving up and turning around. The Monster proves his intelligence when he learns to speak French and learns human sensitivity just by observing the De Lacey family. He is then able to read notes that Victor wrote which were shoved in Victor’s jacket pocket, as well as the Paradise Lost book that he found. He discovers fire and its ability to both cook and to burn. The Monster is smart enough to be able to hide from society and to also evade Victor when Victor is hunting him down for revenge. The Monster is eloquent, like Victor, and is able to convince Victor for a short time that making a female monster would be a compassionate thing to do.

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.

The word monster has a negative connotation to it and usually refers to something that is evil in nature. In chapters ten and eleven of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor is shown to be more monstrous that his creature.

Victor Frankenstein, who is dedicated to science has created a monster. Victor has experienced a tragedy of his mother death during childbirth. The death of his mother has inspired him to bringing back life from death. Without knowing of creating the monster, Victor life would change and his personality. How was Victor before and after creating the monster?

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Victor's duties towards his creature are to take care of him as if he were his son. Not let him wander around by himself, not let him be lonely. At first, Victor let him wander around because he was scared of the creature and was mad at him because he believe the monster killed William. According to paragraph 14, line 6, it states, "You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature." This quote shows how the monster is trying to tell Victor that he too is a murderer if he plans on killing the creature he created. This also ties in with Mary Shelley's epigraph which states, "DID I REQUEST THEE, MAKER, FROM MY CLAY, TO MOULD ME MAN?" This quote shows how the creature never asked to be created,

dka Prof. Brian Dunnigan ENG 102 April 20, 2016 The Monster Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is a science fiction novel which tells the story about the science student Victor and the Monster, he created. With the help of these two main characters, Shelley is able to show man’s relationship to science and technology, the nature and use of knowledge for good and for evil. Victor’s obsession to find secret behind the human life brings assembled old body parts into life creating the gigantic Monster. Although, Victor has created eight feet tall and physically very strong Monster, his physical appearance is ugly, his mind is a blank slate, and he has no identity.

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the creature is introduced to four readings that influenced his outlook on human life. The four books being Paradise Lost By John Milton,Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans By Plutarch,The Sorrows of Young Werther By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ruins of Empires by Constantin-François de Volney . Knowing that these four works influenced the creature to be who he became, I would change them in hopes of him becoming good. In the story of Frankenstein, the Creature studies or listens to 4 books. Each book molded who he became and how he thought or felt about society. Bibliotherapy is used occasionally for psychiatric therapy or to help solve your personal problems. If his reading choices

Webster’s Dictionary defines a monster as a “powerful person or thing that cannot be controlled and that causes many problems”. Mankind usually thinks of them as ugly and vile creatures. This is not always true, although in the case of the book Frankenstein, the monster has hideous characteristics, according to Victor and the monster himself. Fiends have a habit of getting classified as not having emotions, but this is not the instance with Victor’s creature. Mary Shelley identifies the monster in Frankenstein by his tendency to become angry, feel unloved, and seek revenge.