Frankenstein's Creature Is A Victim Not A Villain
In this essay I aim to discuss the statement "Frankenstein's creature
is a victim not a villain"
In 1814 Mary Wollestonecraft met Percy shelly, a poet and writer. They
ran away together, to escape Mary's family and Percy's pregnant wife,
Harriet. Harriet drowned herself and Mary and percy were married two
weeks later. "Frankenstein" was started in 1816 and finally published
in 1818.
From 1815 to 1819 three of mary Shelly's four children died in
infancy, these series of deaths may have encouraged shelly to continue
writing "Frankenstein".
Shelly was good friends with Lord Byron, a famous romantic poet. Along
with her husband, he influenced shelly while she was writing the book.
Around the same time scientists were investigating the idea of
bringing dead bodies to life using mainly electricity as a source of
power. This being a new idea and quite big news at the time, this must
have been a basis for "Frankenstein".
Frankenstein spent years in the creation of his creature. However as
soon as he laid eyes upon its living form he rejected him. The
creature tries at first to make contact with him, but Frankenstein may
have thought that the creature was trying to attack him and escapes
from the creature. The novel is set at a time when people believed
that beautiful things were divine and that ugly things were evil. This
may explain why Frankenstein was so afraid of the creature.
Frankenstein's first comment about the creature is describing it as a
"catastrophe". this shows that he was appalled by his creature as soon
as he was animated. Going on, Frankenstein feels that what he has done
is totally wrong and starts regretting what he has done more ...
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...r the monster. If the creature was a victim not a
villain, then he would not have gone through with this murder,
especially on an innocent victim. If he was truly out for revenge then
he would probably have killed Frankenstein and not just tried to make
him miserable by killing those around him.
In conclusion, I feel that Frankenstein's creature is a victim rather
than a villain. This is my opinion after reviewing the evidence
against him being a victim and against him being a villain. I feel
that the evidence for him being a victim of neglect, misunderstanding
and prejudice outweighs that for him being evil minded.
However, this essay has offered another question in my mind; we as
humans have the power to take life, but could we go against the "laws
of God", and really try to give life instead? In my opinion, this
would be our greatest achievement.
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allowed it to last over 200 years. To sit and read through all of the
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and how he envisioned it, was condemned by the media and the public by doing so.
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