Frankenstein : The Real Monster

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One who has only seen the Hollywood version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would assume that in the course of the book the true monster is Dr. Frankenstein himself. But upon analysis of the text it becomes clear that it is in fact the Monster who is the greater of the two evils. Although created by the doctor, his own hatred and consciousness yield an evil larger than even the doctor could have predicted.
The monster himself, like Dr. Frankenstein, is an unbalanced being. He cannot keep his intellect in line with his emotions. The monster, outcast from society, seeks vengeance. "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear," says the monster to his creator. The monster then promises to work on the destruction of Dr. Frankenstein. In the case, his emotions cloud what is rational. He should not try to destroy Dr. Frankenstein any more than any child should commit parricide. It is not morally, or legally right. Further more the combination of the monster being half person, half machine adds to not only to why the Monster is rejected by society, but also leads to connections between the classic monsters such as the Minotaur, which was half man, half bull.
Such as that, Frankenstein was also a monster in the common sense of the word. All too often we have seen movies or TV shows about a mutant of some sort, who, because of his looks, assumes that no on will love him, and because of ...

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