The Monster In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein brings up a question that is very difficult answer. What makes something alive? Philosophers, psychologist, and great thinkers from around the world on this question. Is life simply moving, breathing, and thinking or is there something more inside that causes life to be precious? Mary Shelly brings us to Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a creature that learns to how to feel, think and read which causes the Monster to possess the desire to become more human. However the Monsters appearance The Monster suffers many of the same conditions that effects human but does that make him human? Frankenstein brings out elements that trouble humans being on a daily basis, a feeling of rejection and need to hope that

The “Monster” feels such a feeling so strongly that it drives him to make his creator’s life as pointless as his own. Everyone who the “Monster” acted in fear and hatred due to his hideous appearance. - "’All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.'" (Shelly 83). The Monster said when retelling his tale to Victor. The “Monster” revels that because of man’s hatred, he now believe that he is wretched. Man is wired to believe what others say about them which causes people to become very self-conscious and needing other approval and believe the lies that they hear. Rejection often leads isolation and loneliness. A man at sea can feel intense rejection even surrounded by people. Robert Walton, the man who is telling the story of Victor and his monster through letters to his sister. As Walton journeys closer to his destination in the North Pole, he begins to become lonely and feels isolated. "I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am

The Monster, now without a home and feeling rejected by mankind decides he no longer desires their compassion, he wants them to feel the same pain that he has felt. "I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. (Shelly 165). The Monster now after being treated like an outcast, decides to become the monster the people make him out to be. The target of his rage is his abandoning creator, Victor. The Monster finds and kills Victor’s brother William and plants evidence so that Dominque is hung for the crime. The Monster is targeting Victor not only because he abandoned him but also because Victor did not give him a purpose. “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?”(Shelly 162). The constant rejection and lack of identity made the Monster question why he existed. Is he simply a monster or could he become something more? These are questions that Monster would never have answered. As the Monster continues his conquest to make Victor’s life miserable, Victor sees the errors of his ways and attempts to take responsibility for his actions. The