Outcasts Of Society In Frankenstein Essay

Improved Essays
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Creature is an outcast of society, which is a person who is not accepted by society’s standards because people feel as if they “need” to be “normal”. Today’s outcasts of society are considered prisoners, a PTSD strickened veteran, or sociopaths. The outcasts of society are the most interesting people in the world because they are not what people in society call “normal”. These special people are the outcome of societal action directed towards those individuals.

Victor Frankenstein would be one of the outcasts of society in the novel because after he creates the monster or creature he starts becoming more distant from his closest friends and family. He is more sad, regretful, and feels as if everything around was caused by him originally, the butterfly effect. The Creature is an outcast of society due to his encounters with humans, they reject him or shun him away. The creature does kill the three closest people to Victor, but he did this because it was society that rejected him and caused him to commit these acts. Victor did create the monster but society is to blame for the actions directed towards the creature leading up to his
…show more content…
One day we will stop checking for monsters under our beds because we will realize they are inside of us. The creature had to kill to survive his rejection from society because others did not and cannot adapt to change from their current way of life because they are not survivors, in the real world there is but one rule: hunt or be hunted. The creature is an outcast of society in Frankenstein due to his physical features and his violent actions to those who will not be his friend. Prisoners, sociopaths, and the Creatures of the world are outcasts of society due to society’s weak opinion towards the issues of what others may have mentally. Screw

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    While Victor feels unmitigated hatred for his creation the monster shows that he is not a purely evil being. He assists a group of poor peasants and saves a girl from drowning, but because of his outward appearance he is rewarded only with beatings and disgust. Torn between vengefulness and compassion the monster ends up lonely and tormented by remorse. Even the death of his creator-turned-would-be-destroyer offers only bittersweet relief joy because Victor has caused him so much suffering, sadness because Victor is the only person with whom he has had any sort of…

    • 472 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Frankenstein Reflective Journal After reading the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, I can certainly see that the character Victor Frankenstein himself is isolated and lonely. This is illustrated through each chapter in even more depth as you read deeper into the novel. Victor doesn't epitomize the stereotypical man, pertaining to his level of sensitivity. For a man to be a man, they must act like one, and as cliché as it is, I have concluded that Victor defies this presumption by acting this way and expressing natural emotion more evidently. He is someone who has rejected standard and has been rejected by society because of this.…

    • 680 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Victor uses pieces of corpses to fashion something grotesque rather than finding a more suitable vessel for his project. While the very nature of the creature seems evil, he has not been exposed to anything in order to create a choice of good or evil. The creature is left to his own devices after Victor runs away from him in disgust. This rejection imprints on the creature as his first contact with humanity. He is rejected again by the townspeople who run him out of town by attacking him and screaming.…

    • 849 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ambition In Frankenstein

    • 1389 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Frankenstein, a novel written by Mary Shelley tells the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein and his creation of a monstrous creature. Throughout the novel we are able to witness the relationship between the monster and his creator while simultaneously following their individual paths as they cross one another. From each individual journey we see how appearance, ambition, lack of compassion, affection, grief and horror contribute to each story and play a leading effect in the perspective of monster and man. Victor, an ambitious scientist who dreams of making human kind better, creates a figure, later known as the creature, with intentions of helping to “banish disease from the human frame” (Shelley 23). He wants to save…

    • 1389 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    By the halfway point of the novel, Victor has become the antagonist and the monster the victim- which then, reverses. As Victor makes the monster, he abandons it- calling it on page 59, “the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.” Victor’s abandonment of the creature reflects his mother’s death early in his childhood, and the cruelty displayed by life there reflects in his own actions of abandonment- his shift from victim to perpetrator complete. After the abandonment of the creature, Victor shows other cruelties to him as well, such as refusing to reason with him, or make him a mate of any sort. By his cruel actions, Victor pushes the creature to commit his own atrocities, such as the murder of WIlliam, which the creature describes as, “... I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.…

    • 708 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Our roles in society are dictated by what we want to do with our lives. Our role is dictated by what influence we want to have and what we want to get back out. Frankenstein wants to be the one who discovers eternal life and he wants the fame and fortune that comes with it. What he doesn’t expect are the consequences of achieving his dreams. The monster is another character who doesn’t realize the consequences of trying to impact society.…

    • 641 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Frankenstein In a lot of aspects society came up with the idea to view being different as something scary because it is not something that they are normally used to. In the story of Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly she gives out a story about a horrendous looking monster that deals with a variety of rejection among humankind even from his own creator due to his physical appearance and his creator then suffers horrible consequences while his monster lives and roams the Earth. In the story of Prometheus, it gives us a story that results in horrible consequences as well. Frankenstein is also known to be modern Prometheus.…

    • 1942 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The theme that’s portrayed in Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, is the lack of humanity that the monster portrays, which is still a problem that is present in today’s society. The society we live in has brought many tragic events in the life we live. Many lives of innocent individuals have been lost due to recent incidents, such as terrorism attacks. As in our society, the novel Frankenstein has a connection of how many lives have been lost due to inhumane choices. In relation to today’s society and in the novel are examples of how humanity has been lost to one another.…

    • 1820 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Victor only wanted to contribute to science and the Creature only wanted to be accepted and loved. But these two innocent souls became lost in the battles of life, fighting for understanding. It can only be said that these characters developed into monstrous beings through hate and revengeful actions. Due to Victors lack of responsibility, he allowed a lost man to become a hellish ghoul, which ultimately resulted in the death of several innocent people who were close to Victor, therefor dissolving any chance for Victor to be happy. His own creation became a his every destruction - a terrible…

    • 1104 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Happiness can only exist in acceptance,” as quoted by George Orwell. Since the dawn of civilization, individuals have become dedicated to behaving in a manner that will result in their acceptance into society. However, a few brave individuals dare to diverge from the path established by society’s standards and thus are labeled “outsiders”. Since early civilization, there have always been secrets. Some secrets are meant to prevent the acquiring of unnecessary knowledge, while others serve simply for protection.…

    • 1866 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Victor also never told anyone about the monster even though he was to blame for all the problems that were causes. The monster shows more human qualities than Victor, he takes blame for his wrongdoing, shows that he cares for others, and longs for a companionship like a human would. In conclusion, the creature ends up killing himself being of all the burron he's caused wants no more…

    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Frankenstein, written by Mary-Ann Shelley, Shelley portrays Victor as the ultimate monster. Throughout the novel, Shelley tests Victor’s morals and concludes him to be arrogant and selfish. Shelley depicts his immorality through the creation of the creature, abandoning his creation, and his decision to uphold his reputation and sacrifice mankind. Shelley illustrates Victor’s immorality through the creation of the creature. When Victor attends university at Ingolstadt, he decides to pursue his studies in the Sciences.…

    • 879 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein was an aspiring scientist who wanted to play the hand of God and create life. Through Frankenstein's obsession to create life he begins to seclude himself from the world to focus on his work. While he did successfully bring to life the dead, he is horrified by his creation and immediately rejects the creature. Victor lives his life as an outcast because of the monsters acts against him and the people dearest to him. While the Monster comes into the world with a loving heart, he is rejected by all and believes that all humans are terrible, and he seeks revenge on all who hurt him.…

    • 980 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Although the monster isn’t biologically Victor’s son, he can be seen that way through everything he undergoes. The creature is like the shadow from Victor’s past who repeats all of the suffering inflicted upon others. In this case it is different because everything is directed towards Victor. Although Victor never killed anyone, he caused those to suffer around him through his selfishness and unhealthy habits. Everyone worries about him and he leaves them in the dark about what is happening to him.…

    • 769 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The monster is inherently “benevolent and good,” but his lonesome journey transforms him into a “fiend” (Shelley 87). The monster describes himself saying, “ ‘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 even imagine’ ” (Shelley 209-210). Created with an instinctive need for nurture from his creator, the monster was not capable of living alone in his society. In Stephen Gould’s view, “Frankenstein 's creature… is, rather, born capable of goodness, even with an inclination toward kindness, should circumstances of his upbringing call forth this favored response.”…

    • 1142 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays