Judgment In Frankenstein

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley many different notions are important in the creation of this book, but the main two are social awareness and judgment. The book defines social awareness as the ability to survive and thrive in a civilized society. Judgment is defined by Mary Shelley as the ability to decide what is morally correct. Although these two notions are the most important, they are closely ties because the ability to judge what is morally correct grants the ability to survive and thrive in society. In Frankenstein, Frankenstein has the least amount of social awareness and judgement, while the monster learns the most and soon has the most social awareness and judgement. My opposition may say that the monster is driven by emotions. …show more content…
This is vividly seen when the monster is speaking to Frankenstein about creating a female monster for him. The monster threatens Frankenstein by saying, “I will revenge my injures; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear…I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth” (144-45). The monster talks about fear and destruction in this quote in an attempt to scare Frankenstein, which works entirely, but the monster talks about taking revenge for his injures. Injures are usually considered as physical, but in the monster’s cause this considered mentally and emotionally. The monster might not have made the correct moral decision. But looking back on all of the pain and toil that Frankenstein brings on the monster, the most logical and most moral thing to do, as al other people would have done, is to seek revenge. This is what the monster does by killing everyone around Frankenstein, and this shows the extremely human judgment that is used by the monster. This gives Frankenstein the ability to survive and thrive in society, even though he never gets the chance to truly do this because of his