Eight feet tall and also hideously ugly, the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is rejected by society. However, his monstrosity results from his grotesque appearance and from the unnatural way he was created. Which involves a mix of stolen body parts which helped his rebirth of life. The creature is born like a newborn; despite his size, he knows nothing of the world or what his life be holds of him. The creature's mind is a "blank slate" and he only learns to be good or bad from his experiences. Therefore, he is not born good nor bad, but learns the bad behavior we see in the novel from Victor Frankenstein. The monster's creator Victor Frankenstein himself is a monster, as his ambition, and selfishness alienate him from human society. …show more content…
Victor Frankenstein is the true monster, not the creature he created. When Victor abandoned the creature, he became angry and vengeful. Also, the encounters the creature has with people that he meets reiterate his self-hatred and need for vengeance because they react to his grotesque appearance with fear. Abandoning the monster shows the monster he can never be loved or accepted by anyone. The creature is never taught right from wrong and makes horrible mistakes that could have been prevented if Victor would have shown the monster some affection. The creature admits that he regrets his mistakes by taking innocent people's lives. But he can not take back his mistakes and has to live with these regrets. Society teaches the creature that he is a "monster", that he is ugly and horrible looking.
Instead of excepting him and letting him feel loved, they run and hide and make rude comments towards him. The rough life of the monster could have been prevented if society and Victor would have accepted him in the first place. Giving him affection ad showing him someone cares would have made a whole lot of difference to the creature in the future. Society teaches us that beauty can only be in one form. Anyone else who is different is considered ugly and disgusting. They should have accepted the creature in his natural way and thought of him as unique and different in a good way. They should have never made him feel so horrible about his self …show more content…
appearance. The foolish creature has murdered an innocent kid, but just like anyone when denied, he retaliates. However, looking beyond the outer parts of the creature, he did not began his life as a monster. Instead it was the extreme isolation of the creature that played a big part on his road to becoming a monster. The creature had no relation or friends on earth. The health and survival of a human depends on social interactions. The fact of knowing that someone cares and what's to be in life is a if impact on anyone's emotional state. The creature lives in pain and has a very depressing life without companionship. He has the desire for friends, yet he disturbing appearance causes him to fail and be shunned by humans. "Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred." (15.8) The creature ask Victor to make him a female companion.
So he can have someone like him and look just like him. Someone to love and care for him. This other creature would not judge and would not be in fear. They would be just alike and would have each other to listen to one another. As Victor is about to make the female creature he stops and looks over at the monster and sees him smiling. Victor sees this smile as an evil smile. I say the smile as a smile of relief. A smile that meant the creature would finally have someone like him and he could finally be happy. Victor changes his mind and does not make the female creature. This enrages the creature and now all he wants to do is destroy his creature. He does not understand why he can not be happy when everyone else around him has happiness. Why does he have to be alone just because he is different from others? "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy."
(17.5) Victor Frankenstein a allows the creature to be considered a monster by society. No one notices that there is a soft interior underneath the hard and ugly she'll of the creature. The monster is not bad. He has been created through no fault of his own. He is a product of someone who is trying to play God, which is very dangerous territory. I've always felt sorry for the monster because he experiences human emotions, yet he also has such anger built up inside of him because he doesn't understand who he is and why he is so hideous. He only seeks revenge because he is frustrated and angry. I don't believe he truly intended to do great harm at all. He is truly good in his heart. The creature smiled benevolently at Victor through his bed curtains. He suffers from abandonment. He learns the hard way that fire burns and that he is ugly. "When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" (13.17) He is tormented and targeted because of his displeasing appearance. However, even while Felix is beating the creature to save his blind father, the creature does not strike back. He never kills anyone out of spite until he discovers the nature of his creation and how Victor just left him. His anger toward Victor is justified. He is a creature who thinks, feels, suffers, desires, and reasons. He is unfairly judged by his appearance.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein describes a mad scientist by the name of Victor Frankenstein and the initially amiable creature assembled by him. Through questionable means of experimentation, this monster is constructed through the reattachment of several cadavers and a bolt of lightning. Upon achieving the magnificent feat of reanimation, Victor, rather than revelling in his creation, is appalled, abandoning the creature. The physical appearance of the monster terrorizes everyone he meets and is unfortunately shunned from the world. The newborn monster develops a nomadic lifestyle after being ostracized by nearly every community he travels to, but eventually finds refuge near a secluded cottage. While returning from a nearby forest, the creature
The monster is the creation of Victor Frankenstein, a highly educated scientist. It is the result of a long time search for the miracle of life; the result of this search is not a human being, but merely a horrid-looking humanoid imitation of a man. The monster is not responsible for his hideous physical appearance; yet, he will have to face the consequences of his creator's lack of design capabilities. The reader is presented with the steps of the monster's modeling and creation. Victor Frankenstein devotes his entire attention and energy into this process, until the moment when the monster is brought to life. At this point, Victor recognizes the horrid looks of the newborn life form and in a moment of panic, abandons his creation. This is a turning point for both characters; the shock is too much for both to handle. The monster escapes and becomes a runaway child, seemingly helpless to communicate with other human beings due to the...
but Victor thought to himself and says “I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, torn to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.” (Shelley 124 )Victor making the decision to not make another made the creature furious but Victor had his reasons like what if the creatures create more what if he doesn’t leave him alone just what ifs. He worries about making another creature because he wonders if the female would be as bad as the creature he first created. Victor does not make the second creature and tore it apart. Abandoning the creature caused him to learn for himself.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein we are introduced early in the story to one of the main characters Victor Frankenstein and subsequently to his creation referred to as the monster. The monster comes to life after being constructed by Victor using body parts from corpses. As gruesome as this sounds initially we are soon caught up in the tale of the living monster. Victor the creator becomes immediately remorseful of his decision to bring the monstrous creation to life and abandons the borne creature. Victor describes his emotions and physical description of his creation as follows:
A monster is usually viewed to be a supernatural creature that humans judge based on looks and not necessarily on personality. In the novel, Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the monster is a creature Victor creates but abandons immediately because he is horrified by his own creation. Due to the monster’s appearance, society does not give the creature a chance to show his true self. Therefore, the monster faces an external conflict because of Frankenstein’s and society's rejection, making it difficult for him to blend into his new life. Victor creates the monster because of his unusual compulsion of aspiring to be like God. However, Victor does not know how to treat or be responsible for his creature. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster
In the novel, Frankenstein, a doctor named Victor Frankenstein created a monster. Victor’s monster was created using old human parts, chemicals, and a “spark.” Victor wanted to create this monster in order to benefit mankind, and for the purpose of playing God. Victor thought his creation would turn out great, but in all actuality, his monster ended up terribly wrong (Shelley, 145). The monster was a deformed man, standing eight feet tall, with yellow eyes, black hair, black lips, and skin that did not conceal his internal features (Shelley, 144-145). Even though the monster was very grown, he had the mind of a newborn child, and he was very kind and gentle (Shelley, 327). The monster’s appearance terrified Victor, and he immediately abandoned it. Dr. Victor Frankenstein also never named his creation because he disliked it that much. The monster was longing for love, and since no one loved him, he became very violent. He ended up killing Victor’s brother and best friend out of pure revenge (Shelley, 193). Anytime the monster tried to help people, he was bea...
A knowledge, especially one concerning what is right or wrong, good or evil, can be derived when knowing what is done. The monster knew the action of murdering others through rage from his creator, Victor. Thus demonstrating evil within the monster. Rage of his creator via story,proves enough information. At first it seems that the definitions of good and evil are clear. The definition of good in the dictionary is a person who has good moral and kind and loyal. Victor Frankenstein perfectly describe this early in the book. Evil can be defined as anything that impairs a person 's happiness or deprives them of any good; anything that causes suffering of any kind to sensitive, such as injuries or damages beings, this opposed to good, death is
Although some may argue that the creature is to blame for the pain and misfortune of Victor, Victor has a large role the events that take place. By creating a creature that is tainted by the human society and knowledge, Victor causes some of his own pain. The creature has thoughts like “No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses” (87) which raises many questions in his mind. These questions lead him to become very confused with who and what he was. Since Victor left the creature to fend for himself after being created, and didn’t give him any good representations of humanity. At the beginning of the creature’s life “no distinct ideas occupied [the creature’s] mind; all was confused”(73); the more he started to gain knowledge, the more questions that arose in his head. Since there was no one there to answer his questions, his confusion turned to anger. Eventually the creature “declared everlasting war against the [human] species, and more than
After Victor destroys his work on the female monster meant to ease the monster's solitude, the monster is overcome with suffering and sadness. These feelings affected his state of mind and caused him to do wrong things. He did not deserve to see his one and only mate be destroyed.
Even when Victor rejects him, the monster still seeks love from society and performs unselfish acts. He seeks the love from others. Longing for company, the monster stays in the cottage without revealing him and watches the family that lives there. By watching them he learned how to speak and read. 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 frighten 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 understand that he 's different from human, that he doesn 't have the properties as human do so he must be interior to them. Furthermore we see that by watching the family in the cottage, the monster soon starts to love the family. He liked the way they had affection and love they had for each other. “The gentle manners and beauty of cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joy”(Shelly100). This shows that the monster was very loving and caring towards the family as would a innocent
Monsters can come in various physical forms, but all monsters share the same evil mentality. A Monster is a being that harms and puts fear within people. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a prime example of how appearance does not determine whether a creature is a monster or not. In the story, Victor Frankenstein tries to change nature by creating a super human being. The being appears to be a monster. Victor becomes so obsessed with his creation and then rejects it. Victor is the real monster because of his desire for power, lack of respect for nature, and his stubbornness.
From the beginning of Creature’s creation, he was doomed to a life of agony, depression, persecution, and loneliness. His appearance alone gave way to challenges that no human should ever have to endure. Creature’s very creator, Victor, called him horrid, a monster, a demon as well as many other cruel names. Victor’s harassing nature is an incredibly important aspect of this case; therefore it should be taken into consideration when evaluating who the true monster of this story is. Upon the Creature’s first moments of life, Victor stated that his heart was filled with a “breathless horror and disgust” (Shelley 45). What chance did this poor creature have if his own creator, or father if you will, could not even accept or love him. Moreover, Victor’s carelessness upon this creation was of his own purely selfish desires. There was little thought put into the life that the creature would have to live, thus providing us proof, that he did not care that this was a person he was creating. There is no defense for this, especially since Victor himself stated that he
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, may not exactly qualify as a “hero,” but is still a fitting figure for a piece of literary advice. Thomas Foster advises to “never stand next to the hero,” well, in this case, the characters in Frankenstein should, “never stand next to the main character.” The characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein play a pivotal role in the life of Victor Frankenstein by shaping the person he is at a young age, giving him reasoning to be concerned with his actions, and by being the reasons he can personally grow and bring about change in himself.
Have you ever wondered what really makes a monster? In Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein, Victor’s creation was the true face of the horror genre. Frankenstein is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who is rescued from a drifting iceberg. After the crew members save and nurture him back to health, Victor tells them how he got there by starting of with his early childhood to the point where he found the monster he created. Frankenstein’s monster was very big, hideous and terrified everyone that even looked at him. In fact, The creature was the very definition of horror. Frankenstein’s monster fits the archetypal horror character because his appearance brings fear
Victor Frankenstein starts off innocent, curious and science-loving. After he creates his monster, he realizes the horrors of it, as he abandons it, even saying that "a mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch (Shelley 60)". He finds out the implications of his creation, as the monster begins to kill his family. He transforms from the normal to abnormal, eventually becoming a revengeful, guilt-driven, mad scientist wanting to destroy his monster. He becomes a psychological monster, as he first appears to be normal-looking. However, he becomes sickly and exhausted following his creation of the monster, his physical transformation reflecting his psychological. He has transitioned from the creator to the destroyer, losing all of his humanity, as he becomes obsessed with his goal of killing the monster. He devotes his life to destroying the monster, giving him a Christ figure appearance, even saying "I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction (Shelley 248)." The monster's perceptive of Frankenstein shows the monster comparing himself to Frankenstein, realizing that both have become very similar. The monster views Frankenstein as a monster, as he abandoned him to suffer through the rejection and isolation from