Frankenstein Personal Response Essay

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Frankenstein is a revolutionary novel that represents the struggle between addiction, power, human nature, and nature itself. Throughout the novel, various themes, including acceptance, addiction, and fear are presented. Overall, the novel is classic literature that gives readers something to keep in the back of their heads. The monster’s tale he tells Victor is actually very moving. To me, he caught my emotions very well. It makes me feel very sorry for him and want to give him a chance to be happy. In the story the monster tells, he is rejected, actually attacked by villages that he visits asking for direction or help. He spends days and nights in the wild eating anything he can find to get by. In his tale, he tells of him watching a family …show more content…

At first he would steal their food rations for himself, but after watching them for quite some time and getting attached to them, he actually gets firewood for them and he piles it for them (The cottagers do not know of him yet) “This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.” (Page 118) From this quote on, the human side of the monster was revealed and I feel like many readers were on his side from this gesture. When the monster finally approaches the cottagers after months of watching them, he is shooed away by the children in the cottage. He is struck and when he could easily break the limbs off of the attacker, he holds back and doesn’t do anything but run away. He was rejected without even being given a chance just because of the way he looks. …show more content…

I mean, sure he did kill his brother, but still he was the one who created the creature. Victor playing around with the science and framework of the human body was bound to go wrong. Victor was the monster that created the monster. The least he could do was make the creature happy. From the creature’s tale, you felt nothing but good wanted for humans until they turned on him. Still, the monster demanded a female companion. "I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile." (Page 163) He promises to leave all man alone and wants to love this female monster. Victor at least owes companionship to this monster so that he will not be alone and wreak havoc among mankind because of its rejection towards him. The monster just wants to be accepted just like every human out there, so why not give him a chance? He deserves

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