Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a prime example of “learn from past mistakes and experiences of others and yourself”. The characters learned several lessons, whether they be from themselves or another character. The monster learns from himself, the monster learns from the cottagers, Captain Walton learns from Frankenstein, and Frankenstein learns from himself. The monster Frankenstein created had to ultimately learn how to function. He felt sensations which he had to decipher to figure out what they meant and how to treat them. The creation felt hunger, thirst, fatigue, coldness, emotions, and pain (Shelley 71-72). In the novel, the monster said, “‘A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at
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Frankenstein had to learn that lesson the hard way, so he wanted to spare Walton and prevent him from enduring the same pain that he did. Walton learns the lesson the easy way and heeds Frankenstein’s warning. Frankenstein said, I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and misery. Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspired to become greater than his nature will allow. (31)
Out of curiosity, Captain Walton asked Frankenstein how he made the monster. To this, Frankenstein replied, “‘Are you mad, my friend? said he; or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own”’ (156). Frankenstein didn’t want anyone else to try to make a monster like he had, so he wouldn’t share how he made it. He didn’t want another corrupt creature roaming the earth or another person to suffer the consequences. He had almost made the mistake of constructing another creature, but his prior experience helped him decide …show more content…
When the monster asked Frankenstein to create a companion for him, those lessons assisted him in making the right decision in the end. At first, Frankenstein consented, but he later changed his mind (105). After he began the development of the female companion, he was starting to have second thoughts about his consent. He began thinking, As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing. Three years before I was engaged in the same manner, and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart, and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse. I was now about to form another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness. (120)
Frankenstein was pondering upon the occurrences after the creation of the first monster. His train of thought led him down the track of possible outcomes, many of which could be repeated from the first creation, and he did not want to return down that road. He decided to abandon his work because he didn’t think it was right for him to burden future generations with a creation that could only benefit himself
Frankenstein had to learn that lesson the hard way, so he wanted to spare Walton and prevent him from enduring the same pain that he did. Walton learns the lesson the easy way and heeds Frankenstein’s warning. Frankenstein said, I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and misery. Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspired to become greater than his nature will allow. (31)
Out of curiosity, Captain Walton asked Frankenstein how he made the monster. To this, Frankenstein replied, “‘Are you mad, my friend? said he; or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own”’ (156). Frankenstein didn’t want anyone else to try to make a monster like he had, so he wouldn’t share how he made it. He didn’t want another corrupt creature roaming the earth or another person to suffer the consequences. He had almost made the mistake of constructing another creature, but his prior experience helped him decide …show more content…
When the monster asked Frankenstein to create a companion for him, those lessons assisted him in making the right decision in the end. At first, Frankenstein consented, but he later changed his mind (105). After he began the development of the female companion, he was starting to have second thoughts about his consent. He began thinking, As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing. Three years before I was engaged in the same manner, and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart, and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse. I was now about to form another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness. (120)
Frankenstein was pondering upon the occurrences after the creation of the first monster. His train of thought led him down the track of possible outcomes, many of which could be repeated from the first creation, and he did not want to return down that road. He decided to abandon his work because he didn’t think it was right for him to burden future generations with a creation that could only benefit himself