Human BEING “To hurt is as human as to breathe.” ― J.K. Rowling. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, intentionally addressed the differences between monster and man. She presents supporting and opposing evidence to the creation’s humanity and makes it apparent this being becomes human as “the monster” in the story. The reader sees how this monster can speak fluently and communicates an engrossing story of how he came to exist in this heartless and inhospitable society. The being fulfills the scientific and legal requisites of human personhood because of his physical appearance and emotions. His humanity asserts the belief that a human does not need to come from a particular genetic chain and a family to link to; however to grasp this concept,
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The creature tells of his adventures and stories to Frankenstein; Frankenstein realizes that his creation shows “anguish,” “disdain,” and “malignity” (Shelley 93) all provoked by the situations and treatment that come from his producer and many other individuals. Meanwhile, during other times throughout the narrative, Frankenstein’s being expresses more the emotions of sadness and happiness. The reader will see this demonstrated particularly when secretly living next to the cabin of the De Lacey family. When the being initially felt these emotions, he explains how he “felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: a mixture of pain and pleasure never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and withdrew from the window unable to bear these emotions” (Shelley 100). The Being shows emotions at the death of Frankenstein, “Farewell, Frankenstein…satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hast not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me…that which I feel…my agony was still superior to thine; for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them for ever” (Shelley 267). These emotions showed by the being, demonstrates that he has more intensity than people generally expected from an
The creature tells of his adventures and stories to Frankenstein; Frankenstein realizes that his creation shows “anguish,” “disdain,” and “malignity” (Shelley 93) all provoked by the situations and treatment that come from his producer and many other individuals. Meanwhile, during other times throughout the narrative, Frankenstein’s being expresses more the emotions of sadness and happiness. The reader will see this demonstrated particularly when secretly living next to the cabin of the De Lacey family. When the being initially felt these emotions, he explains how he “felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: a mixture of pain and pleasure never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and withdrew from the window unable to bear these emotions” (Shelley 100). The Being shows emotions at the death of Frankenstein, “Farewell, Frankenstein…satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hast not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me…that which I feel…my agony was still superior to thine; for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them for ever” (Shelley 267). These emotions showed by the being, demonstrates that he has more intensity than people generally expected from an