Quotes Of Acceptance In Frankenstein

As Frankenstein became more and more interesting as I read, I notice that there is a lot of different ways acceptance is portrayed, but not all characters are accepted even the most hideous or the most beautiful. Life is too short to hate, so why not accept all? A person should never feel unaccepted because sometimes it could tick something in them and it could make them depressed or maybe even go crazy, so, we shouldn’t judge people based on looks nor life styles.

Sometimes in life we do bad things and those bad things can harm you physically and mentally. An example is not being accepted by society just because you were born different. We may cry or be mad or may even do something crazy because at the time our mind may not be right.

In the book Frankenstein, the creature is out venturing, carefully looking for the person who created him to get revenge. He sees a little boy whom is related to Victor Frankenstein the creator of the creature. The creature approaches the little boy thinking they’d be friends but the boy yells out “monster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre.” (William, 170). So, as the boy screamed for his life, he was yelling very mean stuff to the creature and the creature took too much of the criticism personally as usual and loss his shit and choked the boy to death. I understand that the creature only did it for revenge but still he was tired of being criticised for being hideous. To me this is very relatable to a school shooting that happened in the mid 90s. The shooters were part of an outcast group. Always left out, bullied etc. If we’d be more accepting to other people maybe certain things wouldn’t have happened. If everyone in frankenstein accepted the creature, I’m sure the story would have ended very different.

Looking through various articles, one article caught my eye. The article “Peer acceptance” by Jacqueline L. Longe, talks about peer acceptance in the beginning stages of life. “Acceptance by one's peers early in life helps people develop the ability to make friends, which leads to such opportunities as companionship, problem-solving within a group, recreation, social skills, and the ability to manage emotions such as conflict” (Longe). Since the creature is beginning to understand himself and the world around him, he notices he is different on various levels. The creature was brought to life so savagely quick that his appearance wasn’t top notch nor was his brain. He awoke clueless and stayed a bit clueless because he was never educated on who he was or was never taught to speak until he met the villagers. So at the beginning of the creatures life, he was never accepted, he didn’t understand self acceptance, and he never got the chance to talk to anybody because they just screamed in his face a called him names.Maybe if Victor Frankenstein never abandoned his creation and chose to educate him on life and how to take criticism and be self confident, the book would’ve had a perfect ending.

There is a part in Frankenstein that I thought was very interesting because it has to do with a character who is blind but has a way to criticize the creature although he can’t physically see him.

The creature sees and greets the blind man, in the creatures own words he viewed the old man as “…a countenance beaming with benevolence and love,” (Shelly, 93). This is the creature’s way to use appearance to judge people. The old man also has something to say “…there is something in your words which persuade me that you are sincere.” (Shelly, 119) Although the man is blind, he is already judging another guy just by his voice. I think that is very provocative and sad because you shouldn’t judge a person by the way they speak. They could be sick or just naturally like that, and by you saying stuff doesn’t make the situation any better. What my dad always told me was “sometimes the nicest people you meet are covered in tattoos and sometimes the most judgemental people you meet go to church on sundays.” Thinking the villagers would be nice because of how godly they acted, the creature thought he was already accepted as is. Therefore, being judgmental can drop a person’s self confidence or even make the person hate how they present

themself.

Doing my own research, Abandonment of a developing child could halt growth of self-esteem or acceptance.

“The development of self-esteem in young children is heavily influenced by parental attitudes and behavior.” (Longe). If a parent is not taking care of their own kid and just leaving it here and there, the child wouldn’t have a loving connection with his/hers mother. A mother and child’s love is what bring the self-esteem out of a child. It helps the child develop self-acceptance and without self acceptance or confidence, how is the child supposed to make friends or even communicate with others without being “stuck” all the time?. In the book Frankenstein, he is recently brought to life and is clueless like the mind of a new born baby, but over time he educates himself and notices other people’s reactions when they see him or when he tries to talk. “The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be loved and known by these amiable creatures.” (Creature, 133). The people didn’t love him because all they noticed was that he was macabre and was very different from everyone else. Even his own creator Victor didn’t love him, he just abandoned him like he wasn’t a living person. What went wrong is that the creature needed the love and affection at the start of his life to develop some sort of self-acceptance and self-confidence, but no, Victors disapproval of the creature seemed like it angered the creature

to hurt people. So you may want to rethink how you view people, don’t think everyone is bad because of appearences or what you heard of them.

Acceptance is a major point in a person’s life. In encourages people to love themselves no matter the circumstances. In today’s society, people rarely go out by themselves, even if it’s just to the movies or going on a hike. They are stopped because they aren’t so confident within themselves because we live in such a judgmental world. So you may want to rethink how you view certain people because one mistake can lead to another and so on. Books like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein are highly ignored because people see books as boring but really there is a story or a lesson to be learned in every book, what Frankenstein taught me was that we shouldn’t judge people based on appearances, we should accept and love everyone and that’s all to it.