How Is Frankenstein Unpredictable

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Frankenstein: It is not easy to try to play God.

Frankenstein is one of the earliest science fiction written by Mary Shelley. In the story, a young smart scientist Victor Frankenstein, who is trying to create a new creature from the dead, dies in regret after his creation of a strong and ugly “monster” that kills his beloveds and innocent people. Someone said Victor Frankenstein is like the God since he creates a new life but what actually he does is just twisting the dead. Although he successfully creates a living body, the failure of not being able to make his creature get accepted by the other people still proved that he is just a crazy scientist who is trying to interrupt the way God creates life. Furthermore, all the human being are unable …show more content…

From the ugliness and the strength of the monster, it is obviously that Frankenstein puts a lot of efforts to give his creature a good look. However, when he first sees the look of it, he gets really upset. “His limps were in proportion, and I had selected his feature as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!” The way how Frankenstein described the creature shows how his expectation turns into desperation. The unexpected ugliness of the creature is actually predictable. Frankenstein spends longer time to figure out how to build a perfect body but ignore the construction of the inside of the creature. It looks like this unbalanced development turns the creature to a …show more content…

We never have the ability to accept anything that is not like us; even the things we create. We don’t have heart to embrace everything or to forgive everyone like what God does. Also, it is easy for us to judge someone by his or her look. When the creature ran out of Frankenstein’s place and entered a small village. He described the treatment he received from the people over there. “One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and the one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons.” The creature had to run away. Till now, he finally starts to understand that people are unfriendly to him although he is not aggressive and he is just like a human infant that knows nothing. The creature had a second chance to not turn into an asshole after the abandon of Frankenstein but the way of his creature’s peers treated him announced his

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