The monster’s first encounter with another sign of life includes Victor, his creator, who runs away in horror, leaving the monster in utter confusion. This experience attributes to the hate he develops later for the entire human race. The way society treated him also attributes to that hate. The monster understands that something about him leaves people to fear him and run from him. This is exactly why the monster hid from the DeLacey’s.…
The creature was never given a fair chance, thanks to the monster who made him. All of the sorrow is a result of a man 's utter inability to take responsibility for his own mess. Shelley attempts to shed light on a number of topics. To name a few: the dangers of obsession, man should not play God, even the slow fade from man to monster. Shelley is very potent on the topics she writes about, she gets her messages across loud and clear.…
– tear up the planks! – here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 4). According to Cohen, monsters would run away or try some way to escape but, instead the narrator admits to the police of his terrifying and inhumane act. The beating of the old man’s heart caused the narrator to go crazy which forced him to turn himself in.…
Experiencing total social and cultural isolation in nature, the monster despaired and yearned for interaction. As a result of this desperation, the walking corpse eventually finds William Frankenstein, who the monster murders out of loneliness. Then, the monster finds Henry Clerval, Frankenstein’s friend, and ends his life as well. The death of his family member and his friend rattled Frankenstein, and he began to feel forsaken. The chain of loneliness between the two only expands, until it eventually reaches its height when Frankenstein confronts his creation.…
The monster is devastated from Victor’s death. Victor was so engaged in the monster’s revenge that he chased the monster north. Furthermore, making Victor’s life miserable was the sole reason for the monster’s existence. This demonstrates how both subjects are consumed by revenge; the monster had no other reason to live and Victor’s life was so miserable that he sacrificed his own life. Neither character wins; revenge gets the best of both of them.…
Because of this, the creature always gets hated for its looks and therefore has a hard time surviving in an environment full of people. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein tells the story of a misunderstood creature who gets judged for his appearance which causes him to wreak havoc and seek revenge on his creator. In the beginning, he starts out as a lost creature who has difficulty finding out who he is. As he doesn 't know who he is, the society around him treats him as it was a monster and that is how he turns into one. By looking at three main areas (or the beginning, middle , end) of the novel, it is clear to see the ideas of nature versus nurture which is important because the monster undergoes changes as a result of his environment.…
Others see him as a monster thus he begins to take the role. “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?” (Shelley 144). All of humankind perceives Frankenstein’s creature as a monster.…
Frankenstein did not start out as a slave to his passion, but because of his prolonged isolation from the world and interactions with his creation, his passionate revenge took hold of him. In the same fashion, Shelley continues to prove her point through the monster, as his vengeful, master language mirrors that of Frankenstein’s slave of passion language. Frankenstein decides to destroy his work of the female companion, which was a request from the monster. After the monster observes this awful act of destruction, he sneaks inside and commands to Frankenstein, “Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you.…
When Frankenstein lays his eyes on his creation, he is disgusted, even though he, himself, accumulated the body parts that were necessary for the beast. Because the creature has horrible features, he is cast away and forced to live in isolation. “Increase of knowledge only discovered…
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author incorporates the idea of the negative impact a lack of a parental figure has on the nurturing of the creature’s life. From the moment the creature became animated, he experienced feelings of isolation as even his own creator, Frankenstein, alienated him and left him to grow up as an outsider. For this reason, the creature’s knowledge and nurturing was learnt through experience and therefore lead him to a miserable and vengeful life. From his experience, the creature learnt that humans were not accepting of him, and so he vowed to seek revenge on mankind and thus causing destruction in the lives of others. Due to the evident vindictive and miserable life of the creature, the reader is able to see the…