The Role Of The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Is Frankenstein's creature a human, and how did Victor die? I can't believe that Victor Frankenstein is dead. In Gris Grimly's Frankenstein, Victor dies of grief and stress because of a creature he birthed in his laboratory. The creature went on to do some good and some bad. Nevertheless, I believe that Victor Frankenstein Creatures is human.

I consider Victors creature a human because in the story as this creature sees victor destroy his future mate he automatically had different kind of emotions like, mad, sad and anger towards Victor and so this means that this creature has emotions just like a human, so he is considered one (shown in the pictures on page 141). Another reason why this creature should be considered human is because he saved a girl out of nowhere. He was having a nice day when he sees a girl fall in a lake and so he got the instinct of saving her and that is what he did, he saved a girl that he didn’t even know, and that is something that
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For example, form the story the creature feels miserable and lonely because he has nobody to love him or anyone to love, and people don’t like him because he looks scary, big, and horrid (page 108 the couple sees him, and they kick him out because he's big and ugly). I use this piece of evidence because there are some people in the world that only talk to certain people based on their looks or what they are wearing, and this is like what is happening to the creature they are horrified and discussed by his looks and so because of that they don’t like him and they reject being his friend or helping him. Another thing that the creature does is heroically, this the creature saves a girl from drowning and when a man that sees how he looks he had the idea to shoot him, and so the creature got shot in the shoulder, but he still saved the girl even though he was hurt. (page

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