This passage from Frankenstein is a key part of the stories meaning because it highlights the issue of what to think of the creature. It comes at the end of the story after Frankenstein finally reaches his limits and becomes the creature’s last victim. The passage causes reflection on the question that comes up when the monster tells his story, what makes him a monster. Is it because his evil deeds that were spurred on by despair and loneliness. Is he a beast that should be hated or should this be a reason to pity him? It highlights the hate he has received and brings your focus to the question on how this describes how the real world is. The creatures describing his life and circumstances as worse than the Devils not only displays the pain
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This is trying to highlight how lopsided the thoughts are about the creature and Frankenstein. In the story, not only Frankenstein but the narrator himself have gone through the story judging the acts of the creature but no one else. As Victor threw caution to the wind and did not ever stop and think before he made the creature, the response is usually him recognizing he shouldn’t have done that but that fate aligned itself that he would. Misfortune is a word that describes is normally used in a situation more caused by bad luck but what happened to Victor was not out of luck but were consequences of his actions. This is not something that is forgotten when they think of the creature. They hold everything that he does as a result of his doing and largely ignore the idea that an evil heart was not the cause of all the …show more content…
It is a call for reflection and thought on how we are towards one another and how we compare our actions to those of others. When we see other things we call horrible, especially people, we should think how this happened and to realize that it did not come about on its own. Because despite the fact that we choose our actions those choices are made by a mind that is formed by what it is exposed to. Our actions and the actions of others can have long lasting effects and that we should think about what could be the consequences of the actions that I have
This is trying to highlight how lopsided the thoughts are about the creature and Frankenstein. In the story, not only Frankenstein but the narrator himself have gone through the story judging the acts of the creature but no one else. As Victor threw caution to the wind and did not ever stop and think before he made the creature, the response is usually him recognizing he shouldn’t have done that but that fate aligned itself that he would. Misfortune is a word that describes is normally used in a situation more caused by bad luck but what happened to Victor was not out of luck but were consequences of his actions. This is not something that is forgotten when they think of the creature. They hold everything that he does as a result of his doing and largely ignore the idea that an evil heart was not the cause of all the …show more content…
It is a call for reflection and thought on how we are towards one another and how we compare our actions to those of others. When we see other things we call horrible, especially people, we should think how this happened and to realize that it did not come about on its own. Because despite the fact that we choose our actions those choices are made by a mind that is formed by what it is exposed to. Our actions and the actions of others can have long lasting effects and that we should think about what could be the consequences of the actions that I have