The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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To start of with, Mary Shelley presents to her readers with the creature version of events and it is revealed that the creature had a very tough beginning in his life. Upon being created his own creator had abandoned upon the realization that his own creation had turned out to be grotesque and hideous instead of beautiful and alluring as he wished, “ His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscle and arteries beneath ;his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight back lips… but now that I had finished

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