Vin levered up the small wire cage he was carrying, wedged it under the sweat-rimmed pit of one arm. Smelling the B.O. wafting in through the cage's wire mesh, the creature housed inside gave a pained squeak and flopped belly-up, its pink tongue lolling out for melodramatic effect. Vin rolled his eyes and returned his gaze to the hallway ahead. These varmints were known to play dead. The first time one had pulled this on him, flopping over in its cage like a dead fish, he'd let his natural, maternal instincts roar right over his goddamned common sense and he'd actually opened the cage door. Through some miracle of Arceus, he'd managed to get it shut again, but not before the damned thing inside had almost mauled his left hand to ribbons. Two …show more content…
About as much as the metal cage surrounding it. After lugging it and the cage up two flights of stairs, Vin felt like his arms were about to fall right off -- and what the hell was the point of the cage anyway? When he'd been sent down to the basement storeroom to retrieve it, he'd seen an entire ten-gallon drum stuffed full of pokeballs, thousands of the little mechanical marvels just sitting off in the corner, unused. He'd looked at the pokeballs, then back to the cage he was supposed to carry, then looked up at the storeroom manager like: "you have got to be shitting me, man." Maybe he was being hazed by the senior genetics researchers. Like: 'Ha ha, let's make the new tech nerd lug around one of our drugged-up biological abominations.' They were probably pissed he'd been taking bites out of the sandwiches in the breakroom fridge and stealing jello cups off the food tray he was supposed to be taking to Room 11 -- there was some weird long-haired boho dude he was supposed to feed, daily, but that dude seemed so out of it. Like he would even miss his precious jello cups. Anyway, a few weeks ago the senior researchers had brought him into the surveillance room, their faces all sagging and jowly with disappointment, and then they'd shown him the tapes: illuminated by the light from the open fridge, Vin's gaunt, narrow face had leered up on screen, mayonnaise slathered in a ring …show more content…
It was covered in a rash of self-important posters and notices: "smoking, eating, and drinking prohibited in this area", "caution: goggles required beyond this point", "please remove shoes before entry". Vin shouldered his way through the door, shedding his rubber-soled boots on the threshold like a goddamned holy man entering a temple. As he did so, he whispered his daily mantra, the prayer rolling off his tongue with familiar self-loathing, "Fucking nine-to-five soul-sucking job ... fuck this shit man tomorrow I'm outta here ..." He voice was dry and lilting, and it always carried a bit farther than he meant.
Case in point: the guy who had been standing on the other side of the door was now cocking a brow at him, his doofy lips worked up halfway to a sneer. "Yeah? And how are you going to pay back that 5 grand you owe me then?" he asked Vin.
Vin blew a big, fat slather of air back at him. This guy wasn't senior level, he was just some punk desert kid that did the janitorial work. Vin respected and even feared him -- not at this moment, but in general. He owed the kid a lot of money.
Stupid with exhaustion, Vin had stepped halfway across the room before he thought up a retort, but finally one came, "I don't know... prostitute myself out,
Even after being rejected by Victor upon coming to life, the creature still clung to his "happy and excellent nature" (32). Upon giving the spark of life to the creature, Victor immedia...
After killing his younger brother, Elizabeth , and his best friend, Victor after having no family left wanted to put an end to it all so he ended up chasing his creation and dying before catching it. After bringing the creature into this world and leaving it behind to fend for itself the creature endured lots of agony and pain from society which drove its rage to Victor and his family and he ended up kill this younger brother and soon to be wife. Both were isolated from society, Victor brought isolation upon himself through locking himself up to create the creature and ignoring everything around him as stated in the article, “The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest, or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage: but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature. And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence disquieted them; and I well-remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with yourself, you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.” As
The first half of my book “The Cellar” written by Natasha Preston, was so good that I could not put the book down. The girl, at that point, had no memories which include her name and anything before she woke up on a dirty, bloody cabin floor. She looked down at her throbbing hand and found that two of her fingernails were missing.
Victor immediately abandons the creature in disgust. The creature is made up of dead body parts and is gigantic in stature. From the beginning of the story, the creature’s genetic makeup has already influenced his first encounter with mankind. Victor retells his encounter with his creation “His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed downstairs”(58). Because the creature never forms a bond with Victor, he is subjected to the cruelty of his environment.The conflict of trust versus mistrust, revolves around whether or not a person becomes able to rely on other people t...
Zero awoke to find himself standing, it was not something he was familiar with and he searched his memory for any recollection of it happening before. Quickly he discovered that large parts of his memory were missing, gone were the seemingly endless data bases of information. Quickly he sent out feelers trying for a connection of some sort but he drew a blank. It seemed that where ever he was now, had limited connection capacity. Instead he used his visual feed to survey his surrounding, it appeared he was in some kind of desert of discarded parts.
The next morning, Victor woke up to the creature standing over him. Victor jumped out of his bed and ran out of the room, completely frightened. Victor’s original thought was that his own creation was trying to kill him in his sleep. Victor peered around the corner to see what the creature was doing. He saw the creature sitting on his bed looking confused and upset. He walked over to the creature, and the creature in a broken sentence asked for water and food. Victor felt foolish for thinking his creature would want to kill him. Victor made the creature breakfast and helped him learn how to use a fork and knife. Victor could not help but laugh when he saw how funny and abnormally large the creature looked sitting at the table.
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time
It announced, “I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained.” (Ch.15 P.97) The creature ran away from Victor in a set of rage and found the De Lacey family living in a cottage, learning how to communicate by Felix and becoming infatuated with him and his family. Thinking that this family could accept it because of their nature, the creature reveals itself to them, resulting in them mirroring Victor’s resentment. It was hard for the creature to hurt someone that it had developed a strong liking to, and therefore it let Felix strike it. This is significant because it is demonstrating how the creature is often rejected and isolated by the society it is amongst, and it realizes it desperately craved to be accepted by its own creator. This particular part reveals to us that solitude does not necessarily mean being alone, seeing as how the creature is mostly surrounded by different kinds of people, but that it is the state of being alone. In the creature’s case, this is a mental state. These overwhelming feelings clouds the judgement of the creature and it immediately goes to Victor, demanding Victor to make it a female companion. When Victor refuses, the creature promised him, “I will revenge my injuries: if I can not inspire love, I will cause fear.” (Ch.18 P.104) All throughout the book, the
Comment1: Victor made his creation looking somewhat like a human and of great stature but the creature did not yet know language and emotions. However, Victor runs away because he is not pleased with his creation. He did not think of how him deserting the creature would affect the creature. It is like a person having a baby and leaving it to fend for itself until adulthood. Victor did not think about if this creature had feelings or a sense of who or what he was. Victor is so involved in his own problems he abandoned the creature because it was not what he thought it would
As Victor witnesses the creature’s first breath, he finds himself appalled by his experiment, saying, “now that I [have] finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 47). Fleeing from his creation, he leaves the creature to fend for himself to learn the ways of the changing world. Victor’s actions show the creature early on that society will view him as an eight-foot-tall wretch with black hair and yellow skin instead of a human being. After being forsaken by his father, the creature ventures into the world and encounters the DeLacey family. He soon sympathized and chose to help by “spend[ing] a great part of the day collecting wood for the family fire” (Shelley 94).
The creature was supposed to be Victor’s greatest achievement. He proved that electricity can bring back and create life. When the creature took his first breath and standing on his own two feet, Victor realized how horrible his creation looked, and then abandoned it. Victor see the creature as a monster, but in the creature's perspective, he felt alone and in great pain from all the isolation and alienated by human beings. From killing Victor’s family and loved ones, Victor considered the creature as a threat against humanity; a monster with no moral ground and heart.
During his process of creating his Creature, he isolates himself from his family and friends for two years in the hope of making a life out of nothing. Victor “knew well therefore what would be [his] father’s feelings; but [he] could not tear [his] thoughts from [his] employment,” and his blatant disregard for his family’s feelings verify that he lacks empathy even for the people who have nurtured him for most of his life (55). Along with ignoring his family’s feelings, he also ignores the consequences of providing the Creature with life. Victor is so consumed with the idea that “a new species would bless [him] as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to [him],” that he ignores the aspect that the new creature would have thoughts and feelings that could affect other people’s life negatively (54). Nonetheless, Victor irresponsibly pushes himself harder until he is successful at bringing existence into his creature.
she always used to wish for a way to escape her life. She saw memories
It awoke in a darkened room. Its creator, asleep on his bed. It knew not what the world around it even was. Everything astounded him. It’s first and perhaps only guide was supposed to be its creator, but sadly, that does not come to pass. As soon as Victor awakens, he tears himself out of the room in horror at what he has done, leaving the Creature to fend for itself in a strange land. The Creature, knowing not what it should do, grabbed some random paper from Victor’s desk and fled the room. He ran into the forest, where he wandered about, listening to the lovely song of the birds. He even tries to copy their songs in vain.
Unfortunately, this is when things start to take a dark turn. When the creature injures himself, he lashes out at Victor and Henry. Since the creature is basically a full-grown man with the mind of a small child, the pair of them understandably have a difficult time getting the creature under control. After the episode, Victor is no longer willing to step up as a father figure.