Justify The Action In Frankenstein Essay

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Does the Cause Justify the Action?
There have been many cases throughout history where the true villain is highly debated by the future generations whether the person(s) in question was the perpetrator of a crime, or simply retaliating from being the victim of a previous crime. However, while the hypothetical person in question is the true victim or not still does not dissuade the fact that they have also committed a crime. Thus creating a dilemma that can give even the most reasonable person pause when given the choice of assigning blame. The same perspective of ethical dilemma can be applied to the Creature in the popular horror novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “Frankenstein”. Was the Creature truly the villain? Or was Victor Frankenstein …show more content…

After observing how to read and speak english, along with social etiquette, the Creature befriended a blind old man for several moments, proving that he has no ill intentions toward any humans. Rather the Creature simply wanted to have friends and people that cared for him the way he wanted to care for others. However, that dream was cruelly ripped from his grasp as just moments after he befriended the blind old man, his son Felix, upon entering the cottage with his father and the Creature inside, “...darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.”(Shelley 161). This scene only further supports the claim that the Creature was of a gentle nature and was only treated as a monster because of his unnatural size and hideous appearance. No matter where the Creature wandered he was met with the same disdain, fear, and hate whenever he encountered any humans. As such the Creature reciprocated those same emotions that had been so violently thrown at him causing him to resort to violence out of despair after he would realize that he would never be

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