Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Sympathy For A Monster

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Kelsey M. Jones
Mrs. Yeakel
AP Literature
7 December 2016

Sympathy for a Monster The play “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is about an isolated man who wants to pursue his talent in science and create life, but what he creates does more damage than good. Victor Frankenstein creates what is called “the creature” from body parts of dead people. The creature starts to kill everyone Victor loves because he feels he was brought into a world unloved and unwanted. In this essay, some of the evil actions of the creature will be brought up along with why people may show sympathy to him. First, the creature starts to feel rage instead of despair because he questions why he was even created. “Cursed, Cursed creator! Why did I live? Why in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?” (Shelley 125) By that he means he doesn’t understand the point of his …show more content…

In fact, before the creature approaches the kid he sees him and calls him beautiful expressing how he wanted to talk to him as a friend. Second, the creature who doesn’t fit in and just wants a companion, makes a deal with Victor. “I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise.” (Shelley 147) Victory had every intention of keeping the promise to create a female creature, which was his deal with the creature who had promised to vanish if he did. Victor then starts to think and realizes creating another creature could make things worse, which then leads to him destroying all the work he had started. When the creature finds out he is hurt and says, “Shall each man find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?” (Shelley 157) All the creature wanted was another living thing to talk to so he wouldn’t feel so unwanted or lonely. This leads to the death of Henry Clerval because the creature promises to make Victor as miserable as

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