Frankenstein, the Real Monster.
Everyone feels love and rejection in their life, what matters most is how you handle it and how you grow from it. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor becomes the true monster when he continually denies his own creation love and happiness, breaking what should have been a close father-son bond.
A child’s first love is their mother, their creator, being denied love by the very person who made you leaves long lasting effects. The reader first sees this very rejection just moments after the creation is brought to life by Victor, who seems to be regretful on his decision of bringing the ‘monster’ to life, “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body… but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 43). Victor immediately denies his creation of love, rejecting him. “I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then... [now] it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (Shelley 44). …show more content…
“But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses… I had never yet seen a being resembling me…”(Shelley 109). His creator, who made him and should have been a father figure, abandoned him, leaving him with no one. The monster knew nothing but rejection from the moment he came to life. Due to the fact that the monster had no family, he begged Victor to make him a girlfriend, “You must create a female for me… This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede" (Shelley 134). However, Victor denied him once again, leaving the monster
Everyone feels love and rejection in their life, what matters most is how you handle it and how you grow from it. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor becomes the true monster when he continually denies his own creation love and happiness, breaking what should have been a close father-son bond.
A child’s first love is their mother, their creator, being denied love by the very person who made you leaves long lasting effects. The reader first sees this very rejection just moments after the creation is brought to life by Victor, who seems to be regretful on his decision of bringing the ‘monster’ to life, “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body… but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 43). Victor immediately denies his creation of love, rejecting him. “I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then... [now] it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” (Shelley 44). …show more content…
“But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses… I had never yet seen a being resembling me…”(Shelley 109). His creator, who made him and should have been a father figure, abandoned him, leaving him with no one. The monster knew nothing but rejection from the moment he came to life. Due to the fact that the monster had no family, he begged Victor to make him a girlfriend, “You must create a female for me… This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede" (Shelley 134). However, Victor denied him once again, leaving the monster