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Tori Andrade Toni J. Weeden Honors Senior English 11/14/17 Sympathy or Hatred Towards Frankenstein's Monster? Victor Frankenstein had not only created a monster but he had also created this being that is full of knowledge seeking and understanding. Right from the beginning of the story, it is misunderstood by the monster's character. Frankenstein judges his creations outer shell and in doing so he neglects his creation making the “monster” feel vulnerable and naked to society. It is said that

One thing about the monster Victor Frankenstein created is certain: It is hideous. So hideous even that though he has good intentions he gets shunned by society. Due to his ugliness, he has trouble finding a mate and even goes on a murderous rampage in the end which is followed by his suicide. Is the monster driven to this terrible fate by society or is it someone or even something else? In the following, this paper will look at the concept of beauty in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and how it influences

Victor Frankenstein The choices we make set our path to our destination in life. Victor Frankenstein created a monster to heal his own disease of loneliness, obsession, and suffering. By doing so, he designed a monstrosity that spiraled out of control. He was on a journey of self-fulfillment to finding access to the key of life. Humans are not meant to live in isolation. It has been known that human beings thrive and flourish in groups; we feed off of each other. Victor Frankenstein’s story began

A desolate creature crafted from the blissfulness of man. In Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein ,the protagonist, is a well-educated man with the ambition to pursue scientific achievements. After, couple years Victor Frankenstein achieves his ambition with the creation of a creature. Upon the birth of the creature, the creature faces a multitude of difficulties. As the creature pours out its thoughts of despair and solitude through its difficulties: one can not help but to visualize

The Monster Mash: Is it Possible to Make a Monster? Can we reanimate life after death? First we need to ask ourselves what life is; Oxford Dictionaries describe life as “the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death”. Would it be possible to create a new life from dead bodies? This question is answered through entertainment in both film and literature. The primary

Frankenstein Victor had set out on a search for knowledge, he was relentless. His search consumed all his time, destroyed relationships, and lead to the death of not only himself but his friends and family. All of those negative effects originated from the monster Victor had created on his search for knowledge. Although Victor may have achieved his end goal, at what cost did this come to? Victor’s search

of what to do with his life. “...if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear;” (Frankenstein 129). The monster goes around killing the people close to Victor just to exact revenge on him. First the monster starts off by killing Victor’s younger brother, William, in the woods. The monster does have reasons to be angry at Victor, those being Victor abandoning him and also destroying the wife that he was creating for him. “His

main character Victor Frankenstein learns how knowledge can lead to dangerous inventions. Victor creates a creature assembled from scavenged human parts; however, upon seeing how hideous its appearance is, he flees which leaves the monster shunned by the rest of society. The creature, tortured by solitude, begins to kill Victor’s friends and family after Victor refuses to create a companion for him and the two end up dying lonely. Knowledge can be a powerful weapon; however, Victor notes when recanting

ambition.” He loses the sight of any other thing in life that brought him joy, because his was excessively motivated to accomplish his ardent desire of creating the perfect life. He isolates himself by tinkering in his laboratory, yet his motivation lets Victor to relinquish communication with family and friends. Because

distinguish the characteristics between the hero and the villain. This is not the case in Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein. In the novel, we meet Victor Frankenstein and his science experiment gone rogue, the Creature. At first glance into the novel, many people would debate that the Creature is, in fact, the villain because he had maliciously murdered Victor Frankenstein's family and closest friends. Of course anyone with a properly functioning brain would say that the Creature is the bad guy but what