Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, shows the importance of appearance through the story of a creature that was not accepted by society. The ambitious victor Frankenstein created the monster in hopes of being god like, but once he created the beast he realized how ugly it was and neglected him. Ironically the beast was a lot more compassionate and well-mannered than his creator Victor, but soon his innocent view of humans was lost due to an appearance based society. This makes readers reflective as to how they think of the creature, and so the saying of “Never judge a book by its cover” falls in.
The creature is then on its journey to participate on human interaction, but society and people around him are being prejudice, and are judging him by appearance. Society does not know the creature well enough to judge him, they don’t know that the creature is very compassionate and thoughtful. The monster unfortunately does not know himself as to why people hate him and run him out of town. He doesn’t know that his unappealing appearance is to as why society does not accept him. If Victor created …show more content…
It was either because victor wanted to feel god like or possibly the simple purpose of recreation. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. “Here Victor talks about how horrific his creation is and neglected it. Victor is being prejudice by strictly judging the creature based on its looks, but not knowing the creature for whom he is. Victors negligence for the creature affected the creature in a way more dangerous causing him to really gain his name for being the monster society had claimed him. If Victor had taken responsibility and love even throughout the hate received from society, the creature would have not been in the position of animosity towards
The creature is then on its journey to participate on human interaction, but society and people around him are being prejudice, and are judging him by appearance. Society does not know the creature well enough to judge him, they don’t know that the creature is very compassionate and thoughtful. The monster unfortunately does not know himself as to why people hate him and run him out of town. He doesn’t know that his unappealing appearance is to as why society does not accept him. If Victor created …show more content…
It was either because victor wanted to feel god like or possibly the simple purpose of recreation. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. “Here Victor talks about how horrific his creation is and neglected it. Victor is being prejudice by strictly judging the creature based on its looks, but not knowing the creature for whom he is. Victors negligence for the creature affected the creature in a way more dangerous causing him to really gain his name for being the monster society had claimed him. If Victor had taken responsibility and love even throughout the hate received from society, the creature would have not been in the position of animosity towards