Jealousy In Frankenstein Essay

Noely Ramos

6/8/15

Period 3 Frankenstein Essay For ages, society has assigned looks with the personalities they may have. In this case, society had been ignoring the Frankenstein Creature's efforts to communicate and learn with others because of it's monstrous looks. In fact, the creature is probably the least vile character next to Victor Frankenstein himself. In fact, he cornered the creature continuously until he developed his aggressive demeanor. Frankenstein is the real monster who only shaped his creation to be just like him. He abandoned his creation, deprived his creation of happiness, and in the end became worse than the creature would ever grow to be. In the beginning, Frankenstein was enveloped with the idea of creating

The creature had his happiness taken away and had to resort to murder by Frankenstein. Elizabeth, his only love, had died and so did the bit of humanity that was left in him. Frankenstein was engulfed in hatred and anger for the creature. This is when Victor Frankenstein vowed revenge upon the creature and had become just as savage as the creature itself. Victor exclaims,"Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!"which describes how he lives for revenge. Revenge became a game between Victor and the creature, trying to outdo each other. The purpose of Victor's life left him in anguish and less humane as ever, his goals were but a sick dream. At some point, Victor Frankenstein even admits to being inhumane by saying "Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I". He lived a restless life, trying to kill a creature who he only brought misery to from the

He deeply loved Elizabeth and relied on her to be happy, he even grieved over the deaths of others. However, it is his actions that make him the monster he is. He forced his creature out of innocence until he himself found out that he was severely corrupted by the thought of revenge and disgust. Another argument that people may have is that the Frankenstein creature is the monster because of his physical attributes and vengeful deaths. The Frankenstein creature, in contrast to the previous statement, is actually more humane because he feels regret for what he has done unlike Victor Frankenstein. He had more than revenge in his heart, he had love and hope in his heart for Frankenstein to forgive him. That day never came though, which hurt the monster even after the death of the man who oppressed