The Role Of The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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How would you feel if you were portrayed as a creature and not a human because of the way you look? The fiction novel, "Frankenstein", was written by Gris Grimley which is about a creator and his creation. Victor Frankenstein's creature is human because he has feelings and he wants to be loved like every other human being.

One reason the creature is human because he has feelings like every other human. Another example of how the creature is when he states, " I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity but am I not alone, miserably alone", (Grimley, 83). The creature wanted Victor to understand how he feels in a way Victor can also know what it was like to suffer. The creature just wants someone to apprehend his feelings more so that it wouldn't be so miserable knowing that his feelings mean nothing. This proves the creature human because on page 190 it states, " After Victor dies, the creature tells the ship captain, "My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy...", (Grimley, 190). The creature always expressed how he feels in multiple
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According to the text it states, "...the creature says, once I falsely hope to meet with beings, whom, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities" (Grimley, 192). This means that the creature was able to show and give his love away, but he was never able to receive love. The creature was never able to experience being loved by someone. On page 95 this evidence states, "when the creature talks about the impoverished family that he observed, he says, what chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and longed to join them, but dared not" (Grimley, 95). The creature wanted a family or a companion, so he can also feel loved. He didn't want to be an outcast to the human beings and to the world. The creature probably felt like as if he didn’t exist because everyone treated him so

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