Jealousy In Frankenstein Essay

Noely Ramos

6/8/15

Period 3

Frankenstein Essay

For ages, society has assigned looks with the personalities they may have. In this case, society had been ignoring the Frankenstein Creature's efforts to communicate and learn with others because of it's monstrous looks. In fact, the creature is probably the least vile character next to Victor Frankenstein himself. In fact, he cornered the creature continuously until he developed his aggressive demeanor. Frankenstein is the real monster who only shaped his creation to be just like him. He abandoned his creation, deprived his creation of happiness, and in the end became worse than the creature would ever grow to be.

In the beginning, Frankenstein was enveloped with the idea of creating

life. When he finally achieved his goal, he was quickly brought to disgust at the sight of his creation. He described how the creature was ghastly and an abomination of life itself. Finally after seeing the creature he created he states in chapter five, "I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard". That is where he first abandoned his creature, leaving it disorientated, confused, and oblivious to what the world is like. Only when the creation took something away that gave Frankenstein happiness, did he pay attention to what it had to say. After William is dead, the creature meets with Frankenstein and describes how he had to learn to eat, speak, and communicate without him. The creature was driven out of his innocence to learn how to fend for himself all because Frankenstein decided that it was too ugly to look at. In modern day's society abandoning your child is a terrible act, and that is exactly what Victor Frankenstein did.
The poor creature had to learn on it's own that it could not have happiness because of the way he looked. He had already been rejected by society when he interacted with the people he met in the cabin and he knew it would happen again. Even Frankenstein rejected him by calling him "a filthy daemon to whom I had given life". This was the first time Victor had backed the creature into a corner in which it had to push back. The creature only wanted happiness, he wanted to share a life with a loved one just like Frankenstein could because he was human. The creature demanded that he make him a wife whom he could relate to and love. Even though it was his right to receive happiness, Frankenstein refused to give it to him. He even stated "I refused, and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world". The creature even kindly replied that instead of threatening him, he was content with reasoning with him. This is when he brought to the reader's attention that Frankenstein would the one who teared him into pieces. Eventually Frankenstein consented to the making of his wife but he only gave the creature false hope.
In the end, after depriving the creature of his happiness, he received the consequences that only he solely bestowed upon himself.

The creature had his happiness taken away and had to resort to murder by Frankenstein. Elizabeth, his only love, had died and so did the bit of humanity that was left in him. Frankenstein was engulfed in hatred and anger for the creature. This is when Victor Frankenstein vowed revenge upon the creature and had become just as savage as the creature itself. Victor exclaims,"Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!"which describes how he lives for revenge. Revenge became a game between Victor and the creature, trying to outdo each other. The purpose of Victor's life left him in anguish and less humane as ever, his goals were but a sick dream. At some point, Victor Frankenstein even admits to being inhumane by saying "Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I". He lived a restless life, trying to kill a creature who he only brought misery to from the

start.
Although Frankenstein can be thought of as a monster, many can argue that he is in fact physically a human with the slight ability to have compassion for others.

He deeply loved Elizabeth and relied on her to be happy, he even grieved over the deaths of others. However, it is his actions that make him the monster he is. He forced his creature out of innocence until he himself found out that he was severely corrupted by the thought of revenge and disgust. Another argument that people may have is that the Frankenstein creature is the monster because of his physical attributes and vengeful deaths. The Frankenstein creature, in contrast to the previous statement, is actually more humane because he feels regret for what he has done unlike Victor Frankenstein. He had more than revenge in his heart, he had love and hope in his heart for Frankenstein to forgive him. That day never came though, which hurt the monster even after the death of the man who oppressed

him.
In conclusion, not everyone is who they seem. Although the creatures horrible features make him fearsome, he is less of a monster than Frankenstein is. Frankenstein created his misery and tragedies himself and the monster was only a factor that he used to create that pain. In the end, he became just as gruesome and terrifying as his monster not because of his looks but because of his personality. His choices were very poorly made and for that he paid dearly. This book was a lesson to everyone through the eyes of an irrational man, never judge a book by its cover.