The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature explains that at the birth, he was innocent, benevolent, trusting and that he was made evil and murderous through experience. What questions does Frankenstein raise about the nature of the creature? Does the creature have morality? How does he turn “monstrous?” In an essay, analyze the ways Frankenstein’s creature becomes a “monster” through experience.

Throughout the story, Victor shows his egotistical side countless times and many of these situations affect more than just the creature. The first time this occurs is

After the death of Frankenstein, the Creature is met face-to-face with Walton, and here the Creature meets his final challenge of communicating and addressing a human who might have compassion for him. Upon seeing and hearing from the Creature, Walton experiences similar reactions as Frankenstein upon first communicating with the Creature. His physical appearance once again stains with utter disgust any attempt at showing benevolence: “Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness. I shut my eyes involuntarily” (Shelley 211). Once this reaction takes place, the Creature’s words do cause a small time of wavering of compassion for Walton, although ultimately he does reject the Creature once

One of the main characters in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a nameless creature created in laboratory by Victor Frankenstein and abandoned by Victor right after its birth. The creature was left alone to learn by himself, to find food, to figure out how the world works. The creature is one of a kind, but he is alone and lonely. While isolated by his appearance he becomes driven by revenge, the creature is feared by everyone it meet, he is abandoned and hated even by its creator. And this loneliness and need for companionship, which he can never have, is the reason for the change from monster by appearance to monster by action.

The creature can be considered human because he can feel human emotion such as love, sadness, pain, and lonesomeness. The creature states to the ship’s captain after victors death, "'My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture, such as you cannot even imagine...But when I discovered that he, the author of my existence, sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance'" (Grimly 190). He felt like he was made for hate and then as he grew he learned that victor could choice his

How would you feel if you were isolated from mankind and had absolutely no one to talk too. Well that's how the creature feels everyday. The horror novel, "Frankenstein", was written by Gris Grimley; which was about a man building a creature and it not turning out how he expected. Victor Frankenstein's creature is human because he is kind hearted and also has feelings. One reason the creature is human is the fact that he is kind hearted.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is alienated from society because he looks deformed and hideous. In romantic writing, in one looks normal then he or she would be considered good but if one looks unpleasant then he or she is considered evil. The creature was ostracized from society because of his appearance which is similar to how Shelley was shunned by society because of her liberal actions. The creature was excluded from society because society's values were based on appearances.

She wrote it as a response to a challenge to a contest by Lord Byron and her husband, Percy Shelley, to think of a horror story. Whoever wrote the best story would be declared the winner.

In the Novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein created a creature to see if he can bring life back from death, but the creature was alone and miserable after created. Victor Frankenstein worked day and night for 2 years to complete his work but later he had abandoned him as he was afraid of the creature. The creature was created in a lab with all human body parts, and yah he was kind and everything, but this creature also had a bad side. The question of whether the creature is human or not is clear. Two reasons the creature is human is that when he was just created he started as a baby and he has emotions.

The monster notices that humans are afraid of him because of his appearance, he feels embarrassed of himself, as humans do when they don’t seem to be accepted. He admires the De Lacey Family that lives in the cottage, he also learns from them, and hopes to have companion as they do. The monster is like humans, as mentioned, in the way that he wants someone to listen and care about him. He is discovering the world and his capacities, he seeks knowledge and understand plenty aspects of life by learning how to speak and read. “The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys” (Shelley 47). The monster developed feelings and emotions as humans. The creature is different from humans also, since he never got to grow up as a normal human, and

The creature relates to Dorian as they both act unruly and engage in acts that Society refuses to agree with. Both are responsible for multiple deaths, and are responsible for ruining other's lives until they both commit suicide. They even commit murder. The creature achieves this while learning who he is and Dorian attains it by virtue of his own choice. The creature is trying to discover himself and Dorian bases his life off of the pursuit of forever youth and beauty. Both destroy everything in their paths to reach their ideal life. Physically, the creature relates more to Dorian’s portrait than Dorian himself. Dorian possesses hubris attitudes and also Hedonism developing from his excessive confidence in is physical appearance, while the

Throughout the story, the creature in Frankenstein develops human-like characteristics which provide for the plot and the occurrences in the story. The creature forms emotions and feelings, intellect, and wisdom from the time he was brought to life, to the time he jumped off of the ship at the end of the book. The creature learns how to speak, converse and feel emotions for certain things from the family he watched for many days. Frankenstein begins to learn things and develop a sense of emotion when he becomes connected to the poor family up in the mountains. In the book, Mary Shelley wrote, “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not,” (Shelley 77).

Victor has no compassion for other he leaves his creature when he needed him the

I agree with the point that Ben made. The person in her house, which the woman refers to it as “The Creature”, could be a virtual character, that is created by woman’s imagination. All the destruction and the noise are like a fake illusion that only exists in woman’s perspective. However, she isn’t aware that the creature is fake, and endeavors to find out who the creature is. I think that the woman is internally having a conflict with herself and the imaginary character.

Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, is a classic piece of gothic literature that brings to light a variety of themes and characters within this plot of gothic literature. One thing that was brought to my attention was how the Monster, that Victor Frankenstein created, are very similar. It is to wonder, is the Monster a representation of Victor’s inner monster? The Monster throughout is shown to be in great pain, especially because he has been isolated and alienated by human beings for his grotesque appearance.