Essay Of Vengeance In Frankenstein

Vengeance, an infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge. Immoral conduct; an evil practice or habit; depraved behavior, this is the definition of vice. Virtue, moral excellence; goodness; living life by ethical principles. Some people let their vices take over their virtues. This happened to the creature in Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein, and a serial killer by the name of Nannie Doss. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who made a creature come to life by using galvanism. The creature was made up of different corpse’s parts so he looked deformed. Due to this Victor, his own creator, abandoned him. Because

of the deformity, the human society treated him as a monster. The creature set out on a quest to find his creator and seek vengeance. The creature threatened Victor that he would kill his loved ones if he did not create another creature just like him because of how lonely he was. At first Victor complied with the creature in fear of him killing his family and friends.

Half way through creating another monster, Victor realized all the harm another monster could cause. Therefore Victor stopped his work immediately. The creature then killed Victor’s best friend Clerval and killed his wife Elizabeth. Victor’s father got so depressed that he died. This was the breaking point for Victor. He too now seeked vengeance. Travelling through the bitter cold so he could catch up to the creature, Victor got stranded on a piece of ice floating on the ocean. A boat rescued him as he suffered from being extremely ill. The captain tended to him but the illness was too much for Victor and ended up dying. Somehow, the creature found out about Victor’s health and got on the boat he was on without anybody noticing. Finally, the captain heard somebody crying in Victor’s room. It was the creature, he explained that he was very regretful for all the terrible things he did to Victor. Nannie Doss was a serial killer who was abused as a child by her father. As a young girl she read a lot of stories about romance. She was determined to find the love of her life. She married five times and each time she did not find love, as a result she killed her family

members. Just like the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Nannie Doss hoped to find a companion which she never could and her father abused her, which led her to murdering people.
The creature and Nannie Doss both experienced abuse in their life.

Abuse is when someone treats another in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way. The creature was beaten by stones and sticks, “The whole village was roused: some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palares I had beheld in the village.”(Shelley 103). The villagers believed he was a monster that was going to try and hurt them. They were so terrified of the creature that they started attacking and abusing him. Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries written by L. Kay Gillespie describes what famous women killers did and parts of their trials. Most of the trials describe events of what happened to these women during their childhood. Nannie Doss was included in this book, “...it was brought out that she still bore scars from when her father used to beat her with a chain.”(Gillespie 50). When Nannie was a young girl, her father abused her which left scars. Both the creature and Nannie faced abuse, the society against the creature and Nannie against her father. This is only one similarity between Victor’s creature and Nannie

Doss.
The creature and Nannie both wanted a companion, someone to have. All the creature and Nannie wanted was to have someone to care about. This quote is when the creature is talking to Victor about him making another monster, “I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I
swear inextinguishable hatred.”(Shelley 148). The creature so desperately desires a companion that he threatens Victor. This shows how lonely the creature feels. Also in L. Kay Gillespie’s book, it includes what she was like as a young adult, “She married early‒at the age of 15‒and during her life she had continuously read romance and true detective stories. She joined lonely hearts clubs and corresponded with lonely men in an effort to find her ‘dream man.’”(Gillespie 50). Nannie’s biggest desire in life was to find somebody that she thought was the perfect guy. Nannie had no luck in finding her “dream man”, instead she ended up killing four of her five husbands. The attempt in convincing Victor to make another monster failed, this caused the creature to murder Victor’s family and friends. The desire for love is another similarity between Nannie and the creature.
Murder, both the creature and Nannie have committed murders. There are two different types of murder, first degree and second degree. First degree murder is when someone kills another person on purpose, that it was planned or premeditated. Second degree murder is when the killing was not planned or premeditated. Both the creature and Nannie Doss committed first degree murders. In Frankenstein, the creature killed VIctor’s wife Elizabeth, “She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair...The shutters had been thrown back and with a sensation of horror not to be described, I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.”(Shelley 203-204). The creature killed Elizabeth and then stayed after to rub it in Victor’s face. In Thomas J. Craughwell’s book Busted: Mugshots and Arrest Records of the Famous and Infamous, describes the charges, what they did, for some convicts, “Between 1927 and 1954, Doss murdered her mother, four of her five husbands, her sister Dovie, her grandson Robert, and one of her mother-in-law.”(Craughwell 131). Nannie Doss killed a total of eight people because they either irritated her or they weren’t the man she thought they were. This similarity between the creature and Nannie is unfortunate because they committed crimes that were planned.
Just like the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Nannie Doss hoped to find a companion which she never could and her father abused her, which led her to murdering people. The creature and Nannie were both abused in their life, the creature by society and Nannie by her father. Wanting somebody to care for was also a deeply wanted desire by both the creature and Nannie. The creature wanted another monster like himself so he was not lonely and Nannie wanted someone that she thought of as her “dream man”. Committing first degree murders was also a similarity shared between the creature and Nannie Doss. The creature killed three people directly and caused depression in Victor’s father which led to his death. Nannie killed eight people directly, four of her five husbands, her mother, sister, grandson, and one of her mother-in-laws. Who are you as a person, will your vices take over your virtues?