Personal Evolution Depicted In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Victor does not fuse up that he knew who killed the young boy and the judge convicts Victor’s friend Justine to death. After Justine death, Victor is consumed with the “weight of despair and remorse pressing on my heart” (Shelley pg. 80) the terror of allowing his friend die and the creature to roam free. The way the author (Shelley) painted Victor’s feeling using the words “despair” and “remorse” presents of conscience sorrowful man. The word “despair” gives the audience a negative tone of lost hope. Describing Victor’s pain of distress in the situation he was him in made the audience feel Victor’s pain.“Remorse” is a connotation of realizing his mistake and having regret for the decision he made that allowed Justine to be killed. Meanwhile, the creature explained to Victor after Justine’s death his emotion towards mankind. “All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!” (Shelley pg. 88). The words used to characterized the hatred the creature feels to mankind is severe. The creature depicted mankind as “wretched” people who will be “wretched” forever. The term “wretched” expresses the creature’s angry and mankind are despicable people. The creature justify his answer by explaining that his good actions like saving the young boy and got him shot at by the father. All

Mary Shelley makes us question who really the “monster” is. Is it the creature or Victor? While the creature does commit murder, he does not understand the consequences of his actions. He is like an infant who is unfortunately left to learn about the workings of society, and his place in it, on his own. He has no companions and feels a great sense of loneliness and abandonment. The creature voices his frustration and anger and seems to try to project his feelings of guilt onto Victor, as if to show him that he is the ultimate cause of the creature’s misery while he is simply the victim of Victor’s manic impulse. Shelley utilizes words, phrases, and specific tones when the creature vents his misery to Victor and this evokes, amongst the

In an excerpt of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, an internally conflicted scientist recalls the moment he brought an atrocity to life. Evidently, the reader senses conflicting feelings of both dread and fascination from Victor Frankenstein through Shelley's use of shifting tone and sensory details. To begin, Mary Shelley's utilization of emphasized tone in her work allows the reader to experience Victor Frankenstein's complex emotions as he brings life to an abomination. More specifically, the consistent alterations in tone and language indicates Frankenstein's changing perception of his experiment. Near the beginning of the excerpt, the speaker frustratingly asserts, "In the center of the room, a grotesque structure dominated the space - a grotesque mockery of the human form, stitched together from the salvaged remains of the charnel house" (Shelley 1).

Victor describes his feelings toward the “demoniacal corpse to which [he] had so miserably given life to” (40). Shelley’s diction in the description of the creature is quite striking. The phrase “demoniacal corpse” and the word miserable generate a hostile and wretched representation of this “birth” for the reader. Shelley’s use of this depressing diction creates a gloomy tone and foreshadows coming events in the creature’s life. Victor is a father figure to the creature. He has given life to someone (or something) and he immediately abandons him. After being left to fend for himself, the creature describes how he is treated by the world around him. Again we see Shelley make use of light as a symbol for curiosity and knowledge, this time through fire. Shelley utilizes the creature’s description of the first fire he sees fire as being “overcome with…the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers” (81). The creature is not capable of understanding why he is met with horrific pain from this sublime element of nature, thus beginning his quest for human knowledge. This is one of the more tender moments the creature experiences in his nurturing environment. Shelley’s diction here creates a sense of warmth. She not only uses

When Frankenstein is the narrator, the mood and tone shift from Walton’s mood of enthralled and tone of meditative to Frankenstein’s horrified tone and suspenseful mood. Frankenstein first establishes his truly horrified tone through the diction that he uses in Chapter V, when his creation finally comes to life. Frankenstein uses diction like “catastrophe,” “horrid,” and “disgust filled my heart” upon the sight of his beast, and even goes further to call his creation a “miserable monster.” The diction in this section of the book is intense, and it creates a tone of horror towards the monster that Frankenstein has created. The diction also creates a suspenseful mood for the reader, because now that Victor’s creation has gone bad, they have no idea what might happen next. In Chapters 8 and 9, Frankenstein continues to establish his horrified mood when he perceives that it was his creation that killed his brother, William, and this in turn causes the death of Justine. When this happens, Frankenstein uses words and phrases like “tortures of my own heart,” “desolation,” and “accursed hands” to describe his emotions about the suffering he has caused. Frankenstein’s emotions are destroyed so badly by the thought of what he has done that he even refers to himself as a “madman.” This diction proves to the reader that the author’s tone is indeed horrified; the fact that the reader once again

This fear and rejection of the Creature is seen not only in the different people the Monster encounters throughout his travels, but also in his creator. Frankenstein is unable to stand the sight of the creature stating, “its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes” (Shelley 95). Frankenstein’s rejection causes the Creature to accuse Frankenstein of abandonment: “you had endowed me with perceptions and passions, and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind” (Shelley 141). The Creature says that he is Frankenstein’s obligation and it is Frankenstein’s responsibility to be his essential caretaker. Although Victor originally cowered in fear of the Creature, the Creature claims he was initially “good” and it his Victor’s rejection which drives him to violence. The monster repeatedly lectures Frankenstein on his responsibility, “I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the

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As the novel continues Frankenstein decides to create a monster and the process of this creation physically as well as mentally isolates him from his new community. Frankenstein admits that "Every night [he] was oppressed by a slow fever, and [he] became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled [him], and [he] shunned [his] fellow creatures as if [he] had been utility of a crime" (Frankenstein Page 55). Once again the reader can sympathize and empathize with the pain the Frankenstein is going through from this isolation. The reader can see Frankenstein 's start of mental deterioration, generating affectionate feeling towards him. However, differently than before the reader can observe

Shelley continues to show how the creature was a tender, caring being for quite a while. After Victor rejected the affection and friendship offered him by his creation, completely abandoning him, the creature left Victor and went out into the world. He soon discovered that the world would not be a friendly place. Persecution, alienation, and affliction would eventually drive the creature into doing terrible things. Sir Walter Scott, a famous Scottish novelist, said:

The expectation of the monster that his desires would be filled by his creator is also not met, leading him to become angry like Victor, and violent. The monster had desires similar to Victor’s like he also wanted a mate, like Elizabeth and a good reputation, good enough that people would not be afraid of him but knowledge of how to interact with humanity, and he desired company. But when he is repeatedly rejected, by both strangers and his own creator it is understandable that his response is a desire for revenge, he concludes “this was the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone’’ (Shelley 96). Through their desires and ambitions not being met, both Victor and his creature became lonely and angry, and wanting only of the other for the part they had played in destroying one’s life.

Mary Shelley continues the emphasis on parental influence between Victor and Creature to show how important a parental figure has on human behavior. The key difference between the relationships is Creature lacked any form of parenting. Creature learned and developed his behavior on his own by watching others and reading classical literature. By reading these books he begins to question his creation and notice differences between himself and others. “My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them” (citation). Creature is reflecting on who he and how he came to be in this world. This being said, he is also aware of the fact that he was created by someone else and lives in a world where he does not belong. Creature was sent into a world that he did not understand, he had a ‘child’s blindness’ which is similar to the relationship between Victor and his father. Not only did Victor’s relationship with his father affect his life, but it also affected the life of Creature. The lack of parental guidance in

Shelley’s novel relates a lot like today's society and the way humans live. Her ideas are presented to be complex to shine a light on what human society really is. Shelley uses the Creature and humans as an example. She was sure to include how Victor made the choice to create the Creature, and the emotional choice to run away from it as soon as he saw him come to life. The absence of Victor in the Creature's life resulted in many bad choices made by him, which Victor then regretted.

Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.

The creature once says, “All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us” (Shelley 83). He wonders himself why, in all of his suffering, he has been created at all. He was not even granted the bride he was promised by Victor. This unfortunate existence led the creation to turn to anger and rage. Blind ambition drove his creator, who could not foresee the level of destruction he would give when the reality of his plans was finally realized.