Who Is The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

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

In Susan Stryker’s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”, Stryker creates an intimate linkage between Frankenstein’s monster and the transsexual body. Like Frankenstein, a transsexual person owns an “unnatural” body and an identity defined completely by medical practice. And like Frankenstein, a transsexual person encounters countless challenges, discrimination, and hatred from normal people. Normal people deem transsexual existence as the embodiment of a monster which possesses “an unassimilable, antagonistic, queer relationship to a Nature” (Stryker 5). However, instead of running away, Stryker chooses to embrace co’s transsexual identity and lives in darkness with an identity of a seemingly cruel and despise-able monster. Stryker starts to pose a question that demands an answer: “Is monster really inferior than a human being, and does a natural body actually exist?”.

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

As scientists pursue the progress of their field, it would be good if they could do so to benefit the human race. However, if scientific discoveries are motivated by selfish ambition, and scientists do not take responsibility for them if they fail, their creations might become threats to humans. The novel Frankenstein, written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, tells the story of a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who unintentionally creates a grotesque creature in a scientific experiment, which causes tragedy including deaths of many innocent people. When people read this book, many of them might see the creature as a monster because the term “monster” commonly refers to an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening. However, this is only what the creature looks like, not what it might be like emotionally; also, people who appear to be normal outsides might be “monstrous” inside, such as Dr. Frankenstein. Indeed, while the creature is guilty of taking the lives of innocent people, if Dr. Frankenstein had taken any responsibility for it, and if humans had treated the creature humanly instead of being violent, it might not have turned out to be a killer. Therefore, even though the creature in Frankenstein seems to be the monster, since it has a horrific appearance, and eventually kills people, it is actually a victim; Dr. Frankenstein is the actual monster because he is the person who created

There are different types of monsters in the world one could be afraid of. There are those real monsters that do look like a stereotypical beast and then there are those humans that act like a stereotypical monster, in regards of being emotionally impacted. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates the monster, is actually the real monster. “Frankenstein” is a frame story where Captain Robert Walton boat gets stuck due to an iceberg and see a man in the cold, science lover Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein then meets Walton and tells him the story of how he ended up on the iceberg. Throughout the story Frankenstein’s experiment of trying to bring the dead back to life is showcased. Unfortunately, Frankenstein's

The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, who parallels Milton’s Eve and Satan in many ways, also makes choices based on his envy for human beings and Milton’s Adam. When the creature is hiding out by the De Lacy cottage, he finds books that include Paradise Lost. The creature acknowledges his feelings of envy saying that he feels like Satan because “often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me” (Shelley 90; vol.2; ch.7). The creature is envious of the DeLacey family because they have what he does not: family and friends. The creature is all alone, so he akins himself to Satan feeling envy for The Son, whereas his envy is rather more like Eve’s because his creator made him unequal to other humans, although not on purpose. The creature also envies Adam, of Paradise Lost because he says that “like Adam, I was created apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but... He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with, and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature: but I was wretched, helpless and alone” (Shelley 90; vol.2; ch.7). Although the creature was created in similar circumstances to Adam, he struggles because his creator shunned him and left him to be alone and ugly. The creature, so much like Adam, envies how Adam was loved by his creator.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein fulfills his dream of creating life and playing God. However, he treats this created life, his own son per say, as if the creature were horrifying trash. Instead of recoiling in disgust over his creation, he should have embraced this creation that was deemed impossible before his experiment. By Frankenstein embracing his creation, he would have provided a positive image for others that would have influenced their own opinions on his creature. Because Frankenstein rejects his creature, judges the creature’s appearances from the outside, and does not teach the creature how to properly behave and function as a human, the creature feels rejected and unloved in this brand new world.

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, describes his adventures in attempting to create life. Using old body parts and unusual chemicals, he was able to successfully create a living creature that stood at 8 feet tall with long black hair, black lips, and yellow skin. As the novel progresses, it is evident that the Creature’s seemingly terrifying physical attributes deterred him from making human companions, despite his amiable personality. This inevitable isolation drew the Creature into a state of loneliness which prompted him in asking Victor to construct a female companion for him. Victor, torn between pleasing the Creature and avoiding negative societal consequences, was faced with a major decision.

Over the years, the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has become universally portrayed in one way: a tall, green-skinned, dumb brute with no language or reasoning abilities. Society has turned the story of Frankenstein into a mere horror story, dehumanizing the monster more than was intended in Shelley’s novel. However, the message of Frankenstein is a far cry from the freak show displayed by the media. While many people may only see Frankenstein as a grotesque story meant to thrill its audience, its purpose goes much deeper as it advocates for the equal rights of women in society.

A human is someone having traits of similar to other human beings. Humans have distinguishing characteristics including ways of thinking, feeling and acting which humans tend to have instinctively. The general notion is that these chief characteristics separate the human from the rest of the creation. If we are to take this perception into consideration than there can be no hesitation whatever in saying affirmatively that the Creature from the novel Frankenstein is a human too. It was brought into life through scientific inquiry, and was not subject to conventional methods as to how humans are created. However science is a transformative element and today stem cell research has proven that a new human embryo can be created out of a single human cell without any fertilization being involved. This can be used to support the claim that Victor Frankenstein indeed was ahead of his time and might have created a fully functional human being by the amalgamation of different human body parts, a scientific triumph in itself.

Mary Shelley would have to be a famous writer in her time and can be recognized for her work and the book “Frankenstein” this started a classic story about a mad scientist creating dead being come to life and become a dangerous monster that everyone fears, yet the monster has feeling just like a real human, the mad scientist this story was written and rewritten with different people who view Frankenstein by book and film. Victor goes mad after creating this being causing him to change his health and personality; the monster is left alone and lost in the unknown world that victor brought him in, both have their thoughts and opinion of the world and the life of men around, a new and the old.

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.

Mary Shelley (1795-1851), the daughter of the two great literary figures i.e. William Godwin (philosopher and political writer) and Mary Wollstonecraft (a feminist writer) herself is also a renowned literary personality who is known as an author, essayist, travel writer, biographer, dramatist, and short story writer. But she is best known for her most successful gothic novel “Frankenstein”, or the “Modern Prometheus”. Shelley started writing this novel in 1818, when she and her husband i.e. Percy Bysshe Shelley were in the company of Lord Byron, Jane Clairmont, and John Polidori in Geneva (the period of their elopement from London). It was Lord Byron’s suggestion for everyone to create a horror story in order to entertain themselves. This was

Frankenstein is a well-known “monster” that was created by a gifted scientist. He came alive through lightning surging through his body. He appeared to have a dark green complexion, black hair and was very tall. Frankenstein has the appearance of a human but is unable to speak. He scares not only the scientist but also the townspeople. Frankenstein is most seen during Halloween when people either dress up as him or watch the movies and fear him. When I think of the name “Frankenstein” I think of something to fear because of it being closely related to horror. People fear what the unusual can do to them. I believe that the novel will be from the perception of the scientist and how he came to build Frankenstein and his troubles with Frankenstein

The most memorable work of Mary Shelley is her novel of Frankenstein, which she wrote during the summer of 1816 and published in 1818 which proved to be a great success. The following novel by Shelley was Valperga ("Frankenstein.”). Shelley later returned to England in 1823 to "find myself famous" with the reception of Valperga and a stage adaptation of Frankenstein ("Frankenstein.”). The Last Man written in 1826 is Shelley's only best-known work after Frankenstein because it tells the subject of mass tragedy in her society at the time ("Frankenstein.”). From 1829 to 1839, Shelley started to write articles and stories for the Westminster Review, The Keepsake, and other public relations ("Frankenstein.”). She later worked again on her own novels