Victor Monologue Essay

Victor Frankenstein had a desire to obtain prohibited knowledge. After losing his mother his mind and emotions began telling him that he could control people’s fate in life. He grew up during a time where chemistry and electricity played a big role. Victor attended at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. He studied biology, electricity, Galvanism, pseudo-genetic, engineering, and early genetics under M. Waldman. Victor believed he could use all these resources to create life himself. This is how Frankenstein's creature began to come alive.

After Victor had created the magnificent lifeless body of limbs, he suddenly realizes how hideous and sinister his creature really became, “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation;

but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness” (36).

The creature beings to perceive that even his own creator wants nothing to do with him, “I expected this reception,” said the demon.

“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, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends”

(69).

He is marginalized by his own creator, “Accursed creator!

Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred” (94), and soon by people who know nothing about him. The creature Victor had made was made up of limbs from dead corpse and sewn together. Victor made him to be 8 foot tall, with translucent yellowish skin that was hardly pulled over the muscles. He also had watery eyes that looked to sag, and his mouth was clothed with black lips and protuberant white teeth.

When the monster comes across the De Lacey's, he notices how they treat each other. They are caring for one another and love each other. They are not a very wealthy family, but the monster seems to think that they have everything they need. He has been stealing some of there food and eventually figures out that they are suffering from poverty. One of the De Lacey’s in particular (blind man) treats the monster kindly. He can’t see which is why the old man doesn’t show terror like the others

had.

In the world today people may be marginalized by the way they dress, the color of their skin, or even by the money their parents have. Back then people were marginalized by their hair and eye color. One of the biggest marginalization I have seen myself is Black Lives Matter. One of the main reason Black Lives Matter started was because how many blacks were shown being brutally treated by officers. African Americans and the creature a a few things in common. Some people are raised and taught that being social with a black person was not right, the same way the monster never had anyone to keep him company and socialize with him. They are also similar in the way they look. The monster was so hideous that no one cared to talk to him and actually reacted in terror. The same for blacks, they were seen as not beautiful for the color of their skin or also seen as dirty. Many whites reacted in terror and violence. Like the monster reacting himself with violence to show revenge, black didn’t do that very often. We Americans learned to not look at color. Some people still do, but we have come a long way from the past.