Who Is Victor Frankenstein Human

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In Marry Sheller's novel Frankenstein, the principal character Victor Frankenstein creates a creature from his desire to bring death back to life that he acquires when he went to College. Victor worked without a rest at the point to be apart from society to satisfy his dream of creating a human being. However, when Victor concluded giving life to his creature, Victor was amazed and terrified by what he created, a "monster". The creature lived a life of loneliness and confusion at the beginning of the novel. Many people may believe that the creature is not human but based on the evidence that the novel provided us, the creature is human. Two reasons the creature is human is that he has feelings and he has a conscience.

Along of the novel of Frankenstein, it shows throughout the creature's travel that he starts to demonstrate his feelings thought the nature and he started to enjoy his life. According to the novel, the creature said, "My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy" (pg. 100). In this paragraph,
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When Walton entered the room where Victor was resting, and Walton demanded to the creature to regret everything that he did to Victor, but the creature knew his actions. According to the creature, he said, "Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse? Think ye that the groans of Clerval were music to my ears? My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture, such as you cannot imagine"(p. 190). In this paragraph, the creature knew that his actions were unpardonable and that he had the capacity to recognize his errors, such as make his creator life a live

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