The Creatures

be useless when he accomplishes his goal and renders it useless and a disgrace. The creature created in frankenstein can be related to an infant. However, the creature is not given guidance of any kind, unlike a child. The creature learns language and values along the way, including the values of evil. As the creature begins to understand what happened…

in order to achieve glory, and his creation apptly called the creature, a paradoxical character that is shunned by both his creator and humankind for his grotesqueness. The question of who is responsible for the creature’s actions has been discussed and debated in length. Victor Frankenstein is responsible for the creation of his creature, both literally and figuratively. Similarities to this topic are also…

character plays a pivotal role. The creature could be viewed as either purely evil or purely good. The creature’s moral ambiguity plays a significant part to the work as a whole. When thinking over the creature, many could debate whether he is good or bad. Victor Frankenstein didn’t take very good care of the creature in the story/novel. He didn’t pay too much attention to him and didn’t teach the creature lessons needed to survive in their society. If the creature was taught the lessons…

power in Frankenstein is the creature, which Victor Frankenstein brought to life after almost two years of working only to flee in terror of it.. The creature shows this desire for power throughout the novel, especially when it begins to kill the people that Victor Frankenstein cares about. The creature almost immediately obtains its freedom at the beginning of the novel, when Victor Frankenstein flees from it in the laboratory after bringing it to life. The creature gains power over Victor…

the story as it is constantly referred to as a monster. 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…

Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the creature, is utterly shocked when the creature comes to life causing him to flee. Due to Victor’s fleeing, the creature is forced to learn about life independently and suffer through many situations. Though many would argue that the creature is the victim of the novel, his actions clearly prove that he is the villain. One of the first situations the creature is in is his encounter with William. While the creature is looking for Victor, he stumbles…

Although Victor Frankenstein’s creature isn’t brought into the world in the way that all humans are, his personality and actions are formed by factors through which the world writes on…

travels, the creature comes across a river, just in time to see a girl running “along” its “precipitous sides”. The girl loses her footing and falls “into the rapid stream”. Immediately, the creature hurries out of his “hiding place, and, with extreme labour from the force of the current”, rescues her. When a man spots the creature with the girl, he tears “the girl from” the creature’s “arms”. Then the man aims “a gun” at the creature’s “body” and fires, before fleeing with the girl. The…

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a ruthless and harmful creature hurts many people. But does he act this way by nature? Or is the lack of nurturing that causes him to be so vile? Although the creature can be held accountable for his actions, Frankenstein's lack of compassion ultimately leads to the monster's cruelty. The creature has a face that only a mother could love. His creator even refers to him as "horrid" (Shelley 43). How can a creature who has never known love be expected to love…

is only known as the creature. While the reader starts to under the relationship between Frankenstein and the creature in the novel; how their live become intertwined supporting the concept that Frankenstein’s creation is a replication of Frankenstein that correlates with Genesis 1.27. From the beginning, the creature had a desire to seek recognition from his creator since Frankenstein fled the laboratory frightened by the monstrous view he had created, which left the creature to fend for itself…