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No, because abandoning the monster left him open to abuse by others who would reject him, therefore leading him to want to take revenge. If Frankenstein were to raise his creation the way he wanted to before he came alive, then the monster would not have felt abandoned and kill his brother. Frankenstein had the power to change his future in a positive way I he hadn't left the monster.
The monsters circumstances are forcing him into his behaviour because he is unaware how to act. He does not know what it means to be a good person but we are still aware he was a decent human being, as he was disgusted by the talk of murder. He also helps the cottagers when they are only strangers and he was mistreated by others. He is a child who will follow
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what he sees. He only faces hardships and rejection, which is bound to provoke him to become the monster everyone calls him. What drives victor, love of science, ego or loss? Victor is driven by his ego more than anything. He never really speaks about his family in a loving manner or even Elizabeth. When she confesses her love to him, he does not have an overly passionate response or reaction. Even after the death of his mother, victor isn’t obsessively depressed by the news, but goes on to university to bury himself in his studies. After his brother's death, victor is obsessed with killing the monster not because his brother is dead but he was the cause of it. The monster is unnatural to look at making him a monster rather than a human in Frankenstein eyes. It is clear he is not natural and therefore an abomination to humans as he is different than them in his strength, build, and physical features. The minute his creation comes alive, Frankenstein realizes how much he looks like a demon more than a human. He wanted to create human life not the actual monster he ended up making. The monster is a baby as he was recently created. The monster does not have a personality as an adult would because he is still learning things from people and things he sees around him. Moreover, he is easily persuaded by what he sees and rather makes decision from what he sees rather than his own mind. Even though he has higher intelligence than a human, he is still just exploring his capability, like a child would. A baby does not know what he/she is capable when they become an adult. Victor is not mentally sane because he completely cut of his family who he was close to for 2 years. Additionally, the man created a monster from the flesh of dead bodies. He had to dig and cut up bodies to create his monster and no sane man would willing go around stealing corpses. The similarities between Frankenstein and his monster is Victor's actions become irredeemable when he lets Justine die without confessing who the real murderer of his brother was or helping her in any way.
He let an innocent die behalf of him. No man who lets someone else take the blame for his actions is redeemable, especially when that person dies and is disgraced by society, giving their reputation a terrible name.
Victor is an unreliable source because he describes the story in a biased and self-interest way. It is easy to tell he is not fully explaining something about what he did or goes into too much detail about his actions, as if justifying them. He notices his errors and moral dilemmas in what he did. Moreover, his side of the story does not necessarily match the monster, clearing meaning that one or both of them are not telling the whole truth.
Victor’s responsibility to his creation is to make sure he does not into a real monster who kills for joy and evil in any ways. His responsibly is like a father to his child. The kid not as to be in the world, you created
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him. Mary selly uses pathetic fallacy as a way of foreshadowing in frankenstein. When frankenstein states “dearly night of november” in chapter 5, this hints at the fact that an important event is about to occur, such as the monster coming to life. She sets the mood for suspense and horror. Moreover, during the night is when n=most evetnful and exciting events occur. The setting of nighttime, forshaw's something big is about to happen. Furthermore, "The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge" (Shelley 87) states the monster, expressing his current feelings. The mountains and glaciers reflect the monsters isolation and loneliness. It also shows how negatively the environment is affecting the monster The monster believes Frankenstein owes him a partner that will be like him so he won’t be alone.
Frankenstein created him then abandoned him which makes the monster feel isolated and lonely, he is different than everyone else. If he were to have someone just like him, she would be able to understand his pain and ease his loneliness. He, like every other person, needs social communication and to be a part of society. The monster wants Frankenstein to give him that escape from his isolation, because he was his creator and chose to make the monster, not the other way around.
The monster will stop being viewed as one if his physical appearance were to change. During the Georgian era especially, physical appearance mattered greatly. Someone with thick black hair will be viewed as less than someone with light blond hair. The monster is made from parts of corpses, of course no one wants to have a conversation with him to get to know what’s really on the inside. If the monster in some way were to alter his appearance to look more like a human, people would not know of his heightened strength and power, or the fact he was constructed, not born. If humans thought he was like them, they would be more
accepting. The monster has no name because giving a name something, gives them value. A name holds reputation, and some sort of identity such as gender, ethnicity and status. By the monster not having a name, Frankenstein is trying to decrease its value, basically trying to ignore his existence. Victor is upset about the death of Justine because in some way he caused it. The main reason she died is because she was convicted of Victor’s little brothers murder, which the monster caused. Victor created the monster which led to events that led to Justine's death. Victor wanted to gain “forbidden knowledge” which inspired him to create the monster. He thought the outcome would change the world. The monster is the main sympathetic character because he did not choose to be alive or exist. He did not want to be better than humans or not look like one. Frankenstein created him willing than abandoned his creation not thinking about the outcome of his actions. It's not the monster’s fault he is the way he is because Frankenstein made him like that. I somewhat agree with victor's choice by not informing anyone about the truth of his brothers murder because no one would believe him. Also, Justine would still be in jail and now Victor would be named a madman. On the other hand, victor should have done something rather than absolutely nothing. He could have at least tried something, even if it was finding the monster.
As a romantic, archetype and gothic novel, Victor is responsible for the monsters actions because Victor abandons his creation meaning the creature is dejected and ends up hideous and fiendish. It is unfair to create someone into this world and then just abandon it and not teach it how to survive. The quote from the creature “Why did you make such a hideous creature like me just to leave me in disgust” demonstrates how much agony the creature is in. He is neglected because of his creator. The monster says “The hateful day when I received life! I accurse my creator. Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” Victor is wholly at fault for his actions, image and evil.
Victors’ ignorance is viewed again when he does not tell anyone that he has created this monster, and that he is the murderer of William. He does not tell of this creature until his own welfare is on the line. He could have stopped these evil deeds the mons...
Victor Frankenstein and the others who have encountered the creature all recoiled in horror at the mere sight of him. He is described by Victor: “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!—Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips” (Shelley, 35). Even his creator shuns him based solely on his looks. Another attribute of the creature that makes him monstrous is his thirst for revenge against Victor and the hateful attitude he develops toward humans throughout the book. While he has not developed the emotional intelligence and experience of other human beings, he has learned to differentiate between right and wrong. Therefore, the murders he has committed are taken into consideration when labeling the creature as a monster. If anything, as I will later demonstrate, the creature is an antihero. He is mostly monstrous in appearance but his thoughts, feelings and circumstances create the ingredients of an antihero, who has doubtlessly committed
As Frankenstein is enroute to his pursuit of gaining more knowledge, he states, “I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed” (Shelley 41). Frankenstein’s decision in allowing his intellectual ambitions to overpower everything else in his life leads him to be blinded to the dangers of creating life. He isolates himself from his society when creating the monster, letting himself be immersed in his creation while being driven by his passions, allowing nobody to be near him. The fact that he allows this creation of a monster to consume his total being reveals how blinded he is to the immorality of stepping outside the boundaries of science and defying nature. His goal in striving to achieve what wants to in placing man over nature makes him lose his sense of self as all he is focused on is the final product of his creation. He starts to realize his own faults as after he has created the monster, he becomes very ill and states, “The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was forever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him” (48). His impulsive decision to make the monster leads him to abhorring it as it does not turn out to be what he has expected. Because he chooses to isolate himself in creating the
Although some critics say that the monster Victor has created is to blame for the destruction and violence that follow the experiment, it is Victor who is the responsible party. First, Victor, being the scientist, should have known how to do research on the subject a lot more than he had done. He obviously has not thought of the consequences that may result from it such as the monster going crazy, how the monster reacts to people and things, and especially the time it will take him to turn the monster into the perfect normal human being. This is obviously something that would take a really long time and a lot of patience which Victor lacks. All Victor really wants is to be the first to bring life to a dead person and therefore be famous. The greed got to his head and that is all he could think about, while isolating himself from his friends and family. In the play of Frankenstein, when Victor comes home and sets up his lab in the house, he is very paranoid about people coming in there and finding out what he is doing. At the end of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor says:
If Victor had stayed around and showed the monster the real world, he might have not have went on to perform violent actions. This portrays Victor as a selfish character and gives more of an insight on his personal life. As a child, Victor is only interested in furthering his own knowledge and not worried about anyone else. He spent much of his time “drawing the picture of [his] early days... when [he] would account to [himself] for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled [his] destiny” (Shelley 34), or otherwise a magnificent creation that would change his future. When constructing the Monster, he put all of his relatives in the back of his mind, and only focused on his own success and victory. This further explains the theme of being selfless and only doing certain things that will benefit
...as made of different people, so he had different personalities, and therefore could not be expected to act as a normal person. Upon his creation, he was left not receiving the protection and guidance he desperately needed. His feelings were the same as any other humans: grief, and distress, anger. But, instead of calmly diffusing his anger, he chose to destroy that which made his “enemy” happy. There was never a good reason to bring the dead to life, despite all of Victor’s claims. Because of his arrogance, and lack of a functioning human heart, he disregarded everyone’s opinions and advice and sought to do what was right for himself and not even attempting to protect his family, regardless of how he claimed he did. His incompetence cost his entire family’s life, but fortunately, saved that of Walton and his crew mates. So, at least, he did one good.
...-to-form illustration of cultural feelings about how people should look and act in the context of what is normal. Anything outside of normal is perceived negatively, viewed with suspicion and capable of the worst actions towards others. In this case, it is no wonder the monster unleashes his violent wrath upon those that have shunned and disposed of him. He was just fulfilling his predetermined destiny thrust upon him at the moment he was conceived. I am being somewhat sarcastic here, but I do feel that historically the ideas of what is normal can change. Unfortunately, as Shelley has drastically illustrated with the monster character, the monster is judged by his outside appearance and actions as it relates to what is considered normal.
The monster does not resemble Victor physically; instead, they share the same personalities. For example, Victor and the monster are both loving beings. Both of them want to help others and want what is best for others. Victor and the monster try to help the people that surround them. Victor tries to console his family at their losses, and the monster assists the people living in the cottage by performing helpful tasks. However, Victor and the monster do not reflect loving people. The evil that evolves in Victor’s heart is also present in the monster.
The monster portrays more humanistic qualities than his creator as he portrays his compassion, intelligence and feelings throughout the novel. Instead of wreaking havoc on his neighbors, ambushing them for food and shelter, the monster decides to live in secrecy in the De Laceys’ shadow to observe their ways. The monster demonstrates compassion as he refrains from stealing the De Lacey’s food when he realizes that the family suffers from poverty. In this sense, he sacrifices an easy dinner to scavenge for himself. He also expresses intellectual thought in his strategy to advance his knowledge of the English language by observing Felix’s lessons to his Arabian lover, Safie. The monster recalls to Dr. Frankenstein that, “… I found, by the frequent recurrence of some sound which the stranger repeated after them, th...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley portrays an individual in a unique situation trying to overcome daily interactions while being faced with inconceivable misfortunes. Created by Victor Frankenstein, who set out on a journey to bring life to scrapped pieces of waste, he was then abandoned and left to fend for himself in a world he was abruptly brought into. After being abandoned by his creator for his less than appealing looks, this then sparked his inevitable desire for revenge. Eventually leading to the destruction of those associated with his creator. Knowing that he will never fit in, the monster began to act out in hopes of getting back at his creator for what he did. His vulnerability due to missing guidance and parental figures in his beginning stages of life contributed to his behavior. The books and article Family Crisis and Children’s Therapy Groups written by Gianetti, Audoin, and Uzé, Victim Of Romance: The Life And Death Of Fanny Godwin by Maurice Hindle, and Social Behavior and Personality by Lubomir Lamy, Jacques Fishcher-Lokou, and Nicolas Gueguen support why the monster acts the way he does. The monster’s behavior stems from Victor’s actions at the beginning of his life and therefore is not to blame. The creature in Frankenstein is deserving of sympathy even though he committed those murders because the lack of parental guidance, lack of family, and lack of someone to love led him to that. All in all his actions were not malicious, but only retaliation for what he had been put through.
The monster is left to live his life with no help from his creator after being abandoned. While having the mind of a newborn, this is not easy for him. By not knowing right from wrong, he murdered Victor's loved ones in order to get attention. He never had anyone to teach him how to live life with dignity and respect. This is a major loss for a living being. The creator is at fault here because the monster does not know better. Victor should have taken responsibility by accepting, raising, and controlling the monster.
The monster tried to understand the meaning of “beauty”. He somewhat understood why people he had interacted with had treated him ill, and he realized that it was because they were frightened by his hideous appearance. “The absolute other cannot be selfed, that the monster has properties which will not be constrained by proper measure”(Spivak). This goes back to the idea of “other”, now the monster himself understands that he is different from human, that he doesn’t have the properties as human do so he must be interior to them.
After hearing the monster’s side of the story Frankenstein started to show some compassion for the being and agreed to it’s desire for a mate. Now that Frankenstein has learned the full story of his creation he feels the need to take responsibility for it now with the line, “did [he] not as his maker owe him all portions of happiness” (Shelley 125), less the monster start to attack humanity out of
Victor has a lack of respect for the natural world that leads him on the path to becoming a monster. In creating the monster Victor is trying to change the natural world. He is trying to play the role of god by creating life.