Mary Shelley, one of the most creative thinkers of her time, has proved herself capable as a teacher by showing her many readers the intense powers of corruption in her novel Frankenstein. In her story, Shelley’s first character, Victor Frankenstein, a young innovative scientist, brings a monster-like human being, made out of dead human and animal parts, to life. When the monster awakens for the very first time, Frankenstein finds himself disgusted by the monster’s hideous appearance. He leaves his monster to fend for his own, as an innocent and lonely creature. Later on, as the monster learns how to live independently, his knowledge grows. He becomes more aware of how appalling he is to the common human, while also learning about human understanding
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In the coat’s pocket, the monster finds and later reads, the book describing the making of himself by Victor Frankenstein. Now, as the monster seeks revenge on mankind, he blames Frankenstein for making him look the way that he does. As the monster hides in society’s shadows, watching the ‘normal’ human beings around him, he says,"'When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?'" (Shelley 108) He seeks to find revenge on Victor as punishment for giving him an ugly face for mankind to hate. On his trip to revenge, the monster first kills Frankenstein’s little brother, William, then frames the crime on Justine, who is later executed for the crime that she did not commit. Then, after Victor Frankenstein refuses to build the monster a female mate, the monster seeks greater revenge and kills Frankenstein’s recent wife, Elizabeth, and his good friend, Clerval. Additionally, after hearing of Elizabeth’s death, Victor Frankenstein’s father falls ill and dies several days …show more content…
When the monster is in his ‘baby’ years, he is young and innocent, but he lives a lonely and daunting life without any compassion or friendship. His hideous appearance is the root of his problem and so he resents not only mankind for hurting him, but also Victor Frankenstein for making him the way that he is. With society’s extreme hatred toward the monster, his innocence starts to chip away to show a much darker side. He doesn’t start off as an ugly monster. The humans around him, including Frankenstein, made him one by shunning him and extremely damaging his mental psyche. This society had monsters of their own. They bullied an innocent being because of his appearance. They killed an innocent soul. What Shelley is trying to tell her readers, is that if humans judge each other by what they assume, then they will not only hurt each other, but they will also hurt themselves. If every being was accepting of each other, then we would have fewer problems in this world. However, in many cases, humans are selfish and choose to make nasty assumptions just to have the thrill of bullying another. This is where we lose sight of what it means to be a human, and what it means to be a
In the coat’s pocket, the monster finds and later reads, the book describing the making of himself by Victor Frankenstein. Now, as the monster seeks revenge on mankind, he blames Frankenstein for making him look the way that he does. As the monster hides in society’s shadows, watching the ‘normal’ human beings around him, he says,"'When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?'" (Shelley 108) He seeks to find revenge on Victor as punishment for giving him an ugly face for mankind to hate. On his trip to revenge, the monster first kills Frankenstein’s little brother, William, then frames the crime on Justine, who is later executed for the crime that she did not commit. Then, after Victor Frankenstein refuses to build the monster a female mate, the monster seeks greater revenge and kills Frankenstein’s recent wife, Elizabeth, and his good friend, Clerval. Additionally, after hearing of Elizabeth’s death, Victor Frankenstein’s father falls ill and dies several days …show more content…
When the monster is in his ‘baby’ years, he is young and innocent, but he lives a lonely and daunting life without any compassion or friendship. His hideous appearance is the root of his problem and so he resents not only mankind for hurting him, but also Victor Frankenstein for making him the way that he is. With society’s extreme hatred toward the monster, his innocence starts to chip away to show a much darker side. He doesn’t start off as an ugly monster. The humans around him, including Frankenstein, made him one by shunning him and extremely damaging his mental psyche. This society had monsters of their own. They bullied an innocent being because of his appearance. They killed an innocent soul. What Shelley is trying to tell her readers, is that if humans judge each other by what they assume, then they will not only hurt each other, but they will also hurt themselves. If every being was accepting of each other, then we would have fewer problems in this world. However, in many cases, humans are selfish and choose to make nasty assumptions just to have the thrill of bullying another. This is where we lose sight of what it means to be a human, and what it means to be a