The Character of Agathe in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The Character of Agathe in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In 1818 Mary and Percy Shelley and Byron and his doctor, went to

Italy.

Percy and Byron were romantic poets, Percy Shelley's first wife had a

daughter but she committed suicide. Mary Shelley was only 19 and had

already had several miscarriages, she and two other people she knew

had committed suicide; this made her think about death a lot.

Bored one day they decided to write horror stories. Mary Shelley

couldn't think of anything to write, but she had a nightmare about

bringing dead people back to life. Galvanism was introduced; an

example of this would be frog's legs twitching by the use of

electricity running through them. When she awoke she wrote a short

story about her nightmare.

To be human means that within a human there are specific feelings. An

example of this is when the monster tries to be kind and compassionate

towards Agathe in a loving friendly way.

Agathe will and can only judge by personality as it doesn't matter to

her what the appearance is like as to her it is the inside that

counts. She doesn't know what he looks like so to her he is a friend.

When Felix enters the room and sees the appearance and of course

knowing he is a monster he judges him by it and doesn't give him a

chance to explain. Felix automatically jumps to the conclusion that

because he's a monster and looks like he does he thinks that he is

trying to attack Agathe. Felix takes action over what the monster

looks like he is doing and shoots him.

He has no consideration that the monster may actually be a good guy.

He doesn't think outside the box and doesn't give him a chance to

figure out what actually happened.

Humans judge on how people look and not on how they act. A prime

example of this is f we saw an ugly person in the street we

automatically that the cant be a good person to get to know, and wont

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