Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelly. In Frankenstein you will see that victor who created the monster is horrified and rejected by victor. Then the monster runs off and starts murdering people in angrier towards Victor. As the story goes on you see the monster evolve and really start learning the American culture: He learns how to speak English, read, and write. You learn that the monster wants you to be sympathize with him. The monster is alone everybody hates him because of how ugly he is. So then the monster goes on a killing spree killing anybody that victor is close to. As the story goes on at times it is hard to sympathize with the monster because of what he does. He frames people; he kills people and then expects you to feel sorry
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I mean he has had rocks thrown at him, he has been run out of town, abandoned by his creature, has no friends nothing. The monster had to learn how to survive on his own. How would you feel if you had to just survive with no guidance in life? See the example below: The mental growth of
The monster is imbued with Lockean empiricism: his mind begins as a tabula rasa
To be written on by observation and sensory experience. In his initial encounter
With the world, the monster’s sensory experience teaches him the function of fire,
Housing, and language, as well as the feeling of pain, pleasure, and “a mixture of
Pain and pleasure”. (Chao). To me the way the monster tries to persuade victor it makes me not want to sympathize with him. The reason I say that though is the book makes him seem like a bad guy instead of someone who just wants attention and understand why no one likes him. His eloquence makes me want to sympathize with him though the monster really just wants to understand this world but he does not know how strong and dangerous he really is. As the monster quotes: “Sorrow only increase[s] with knowledge” (96), the monster exclaims after
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(Bissonette). They do not try and understand why the monster is doing what he is doing. They just assume to throw rocks at him and try and make him go away. He killed two innocent people trying to make victor pay. Do you think she would have loved the monster? What could she have
Been? What sort of monster—what sort of woman—would this creature have
Been? What would she have looked like? What would she have thought of
Herself, her creator, and her betrothed? (Hawley Erin). To this point in the story it leaves a wonder upon you as to what the monsters bride might have been. This is another way that the monster will get you to sympathize with him and make you feel bad for him as the story goes on. In Frankenstein the book and the movie both point out the monster just wants human love. But as the monsters education increases it actually smothers the way the monster thinks and wants human love. Example Below: Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to
Shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one
Means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death. (96)
I mean he has had rocks thrown at him, he has been run out of town, abandoned by his creature, has no friends nothing. The monster had to learn how to survive on his own. How would you feel if you had to just survive with no guidance in life? See the example below: The mental growth of
The monster is imbued with Lockean empiricism: his mind begins as a tabula rasa
To be written on by observation and sensory experience. In his initial encounter
With the world, the monster’s sensory experience teaches him the function of fire,
Housing, and language, as well as the feeling of pain, pleasure, and “a mixture of
Pain and pleasure”. (Chao). To me the way the monster tries to persuade victor it makes me not want to sympathize with him. The reason I say that though is the book makes him seem like a bad guy instead of someone who just wants attention and understand why no one likes him. His eloquence makes me want to sympathize with him though the monster really just wants to understand this world but he does not know how strong and dangerous he really is. As the monster quotes: “Sorrow only increase[s] with knowledge” (96), the monster exclaims after
Mastering human …show more content…
(Bissonette). They do not try and understand why the monster is doing what he is doing. They just assume to throw rocks at him and try and make him go away. He killed two innocent people trying to make victor pay. Do you think she would have loved the monster? What could she have
Been? What sort of monster—what sort of woman—would this creature have
Been? What would she have looked like? What would she have thought of
Herself, her creator, and her betrothed? (Hawley Erin). To this point in the story it leaves a wonder upon you as to what the monsters bride might have been. This is another way that the monster will get you to sympathize with him and make you feel bad for him as the story goes on. In Frankenstein the book and the movie both point out the monster just wants human love. But as the monsters education increases it actually smothers the way the monster thinks and wants human love. Example Below: Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to
Shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one
Means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death. (96)