Essay On The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In the novel of Frankenstein the creature is considerably looking toward finding something that he feels is missing. Over the course of the creatures journey, it tends to find itself going through the woods in search for something that it feels is needed to be human. As he stumbles upon humans in the forest, he tries to talk to them or communicate with them but fails, and as a result he is hit and bruised do to its different appearance. While it escapes it studies and analysis the way in which humans treat each other, on how they are kind and loving toward one another. The creature is than getting the sense of emotion, feeling the need for someone or attention. This tends to give the creature sense of human characteristic, as it begins to

comprehend the world around itself. By learning the ways in which humans work and live, the creature began to act more of like a human, “My mode of life in my hovel was uniform. During the morning I attended the motions of the cottagers, and when they were dispersed in various occupations, I slept; the remainder of the day was spent in observing my friends.”(chp 12 Shelly) As the creature is out learning about hate and love and caring, it tends to want someone to share its experiences. It is at the time of understanding what emotions truly mean to the creature that it discovers how hatred and loneliness have driven it to look for victor in chances of him being asked the request of making him a creature that he can solely have for itself. Although it talks about leaving victor in piece and leaving behind the hatred for humanity due to how they treat it, it is not considerable for it to be human, due to what it has done to Victor’s life. The creature is than considering that the death of his son william would be fairly weighted with the creation of a companion for himself, and begins to blame Victor of him creating itself. That is when Victor is persuaded to create the companion for it. This is than given into the thought of how victor begins to see that if he were to accomplish the monsters request that it could result in even more of a tragedy, “You are in the wrong, replied the fiend; and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind ? You creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me.” (chp 17 Shelley) This tells how he understands that it needs something like itself to share feelings with and so presumes to Victor to create a companion for it.
When the creature is set to go with Victor to create the woman creature, Victor begins his making, as years pass and he begins to remember why he was there in the first place.

He reasons with himself and explains that he would not make another creature as foul and retched as the other one. That is when he destroys the creation and that is when he is accompanied by the monster. By this time the monster begins to explain that all that it had to endure to understand that it needed a companion to share feelings with, it begins to get angry and complains that Victor has broken the promise of the creation. The creature explains that it went through misery and hunger as well as fatigue to achieve what he wants, and so it explains that all those hopes of being happy are crushed. The creature then vows to hurt Victor as it begins to explain that it is far more superior than Victor, “Slave I Before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that i have power; you believe yourself miserable, but i can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but i am your master; obey!” (Chp 20 Shelley) Over all the monster is considerably feeling more superior than humans, and so it found this out once it began to understand how humans were living. It understood that the difference that it had was a burden and that it had nothing more than loneliness and despair for

humanity.