The Creature In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Throughout Victor Frankenstein’s and the creature’s sides of the story neither thought they were in the wrong, Frankenstein justified his decisions as good for society and the creature justified his decisions as good for rightful revenge. What Frankenstein and the creature were expressing through their actions and reactions was for their own individual selfish perspectives that they labelled as good. The creatures a little more self-serving by trying to give Frankenstein the pain that he had caused the creature, however, the creature was trying to find out what was considered to be good and be that, but it seemed that both the creature and Victor Frankenstein were selfish beings. They were trying to achieve something good but went about it the wrong way, the good that the creature was trying to achieve was revenge but was ultimately for his own clarity. The creation of the creature was seen as good by Frankenstein as it would improve modern science but then suddenly becomes bad because the creature wasn’t what Frankenstein wanted and he hadn’t prepared for after the creature was

calls it a “wretch.” This is a very bad thing to do to a child

Left to fend for himself, he is subjected to a world that rejects and fears him. This rejection fuels anger and resentment towards his creator, Victor Frankenstein. The creature's loneliness and lack of guidance also contribute to his moral confusion. Without proper guidance, he resorts to committing acts of violence and destruction, seeking revenge on those who have wronged him. It's a tragic chain of events that stems from his initial

The Creature reveals that he is malicious due to being miserable. “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind” (104). Moreover, the creature mentions that he is miserable due to Victor creating him. “I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred… I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth” (104-105). As a resurrection to his kind ways, the Creature asks for a female and promises to leave humanity alone if this request is completed. “I demand a creature of another sex… Oh my creator, make me happy… If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again: I will go to the vast wilds of South America” (105). After Victor agrees and then breaks this promise by destroying the female he has created, the Creature vows that he will return to hurt those that Frankenstein cares for. “It is well… but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night” (123). This decision by the monster is understandable due to being betrayed so often by humanity and promising to leave humanity forever if he was able to have the simple request of a female. This relates to moral ambiguity because the Creature was fully willing to abandon his revenge if he could reach a state of happiness, but due to this familiar betrayal, the Creature returns to malevolence. Not too long later, in a further event of malevolence, the Creature kills Frankenstein’s best friend, Henry Clerval and attempts to frame Frankenstein for the strangulation. “Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of live” (129). The Creature continues on this killing spree by traveling to where Frankenstein is having his honeymoon and

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

It is true that the creature did take some terrible decisions. The monster killed people and it hurt people. Yet he only did this, because he was hurt. His father figure abandoned him, no one accepted him. If now a days people are bullied they stand up for themselves too. The monster did this as well. The monster only wanted to be accepted and loved. – if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear ~ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s monster

Frankenstein's true character and the way he is perceived are so different. Frankenstein is seen as an abomination and a horrifying monster and only as a horrifying monster. Monsters are viewed as evil scary creatures. On the other hand, Frankenstein feels more human than a monster. He wants to be included and accepted into the society he lives in, but people don't accept him because they are afraid. In the excerpt, Frankenstein said “ ...I trust that, by your aid, I shall not be driven from the society and sympathy of your fellow creatures.” The creatures he is talks about are the humans he is saying with help from his creator or father, he has hope that he can be accepted one day into that society. A monster would not try to get the peoples

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly begins her singular famous novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus with an epigraph taken from John Milton’s Paradise Lost on the title page: “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” With this quotation, she first establishes a connection between the characters of her own novel and the characters in Milton’s work and, through its parallels, the Scriptures also. At different times, the characters of the Creature and his creator draw a direct correspondence to the characters of the classic creation narrative, yet turn what was beautiful into what, in Frankenstein, is an abomination – a doppelganger effect on the divine narrative. The characters of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature take turns playing the roles of Adam, the first man, and Satan, the rebellious fallen angel, as represented in the Miltonian epic. In doing so, though Milton paints the creation narrative with a certain literary interpretation, a theological statement is thus securely issued within the context of Mary Shelley’s magnificent prose. What, then, ensues in Frankenstein is a theological journey of creator and creation

The whole book of Frankenstein is about a monster that was created by a scientist from dead corpse that was taken from the graveyard. When the monster is born the scientist gets scared and lets him run off. The monster also known as the creature has to go through his life without a person to look up to and learn from, he's like a baby to the world. This created a debate among readers who were trying to figure out who was responsible for the deaths in the story, Creature or Dr.Frankenstein? There are two views to this debate one is Creature is at fault because he killed the people, while the others believe is Frankenstein is because he let creature run

Even in today's world we know who the actual monster is we call him by Frankenstein but give him the appearance of the Creature. In this case has both the appearance of the Creature and the mentality of Victor and when they are both put together the monster is truly a monster to both sides inside and out. In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the readers are given the choice to define who the real monster in the text is: Victor Frankenstein or the Creature, according to the Oxford dictionary they describe a monster is defined as “a large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature that is an inhumanly cruel or wicked person. Although the Creature may demonstrate behaviors that appear to be monstrous to some people because of his appearance

Majority of the world believes the creature assembled with various organism parts and shocked to life is named Frankenstein. However, that is not the case in the original book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. As my classmate said, “Frankenstein” is not only an ionic book, but also ironic considering that the theme of Frankenstein is people being misunderstood when the book itself has misconceptions over the true meaning thanks to the movie that changed the views people had over Frankenstein. Today there are several viewpoints over the works of “Frankenstein”. Some people consider the creature to a victim of the wretched demonic hands of Frankenstein considering he was brought to life by someone who played with fire, and left his own

Even after knowing he murdered 3 people he didn’t stop he moved on to asked for a companion. When Frankenstein turn the offer down the monster said, “Beware of my revenge, Frankenstein! Your hours from this night on shall pass in dread and misery.” Just because the monster didn’t get what he wanted he decided to make Frankenstein’s life miserable. Even though he knew what he had done he continued to make Frankenstein’s life terrible.

“Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us . But an angel lives there, too”, as stated by Jacqueline Novogratz. Frankenstein is different he does not have any good side inside of him. Frankenstein is easily a horrific monster back then the world had seen nothing like him an ugly and disgusting monster scaring people from town to town.

In doing so, Frankenstein condemns the creature to loneliness and persecution. The creature's hatred and violent acts are not an inherent part of his character, as he explains, "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous" (81). If Frankenstein had raised and cared for him, the creature would have experienced compassion, and had someone to support him and be his advocate. Instead, the creature is left to learn about the world on his own, and develop a set of morals based on the way society treats him. Because he grows up outside of, and shunned by, society, he feels very little moral obligation towards other human beings. "...and tell me why should I pity man more than he pities me?" the creature asks Frankenstein. "Shall I respect man when he contemns [sic] me?" (122) The creature is not a monster in his own eyes; he is behaving rationally given the treatment he has received. If he were taught a better way to act, he would almost certainly behave in that way. The monster is not born a monster, his ugliness notwithstanding; he becomes one because society behaves monstrously towards him.

Frankenstein is the real monster, not the creature. However, I would like to take this a step further and propose mankind as a whole is the monster, and the creature is the innocent. On the surface, the grotesque, murderous creature, repulsive to anyone who lays eyes on it could hardly be seen as anything other than a monster. But, on closer inspection, the creature has numerous, distinctly human qualities. He is clearly capable of emotions. He desires to be accepted into society and is crushed when he is not, he desires a partner and he goes to great lengths to get one, and when he reads Paradise Lost in the cabin he has a clear emotional reaction. He is obviously intelligent. When trying to convince Frankenstein to create a bride for him, I believe he shows very clever strategic thinking. When Frankenstein and the creature meet at the peak of Mont Blanc, the creature confesses to Frankenstein his emotional troubles, and convinces him to create a companion. I do not think this choice was emotional, I think the creature intentionally manipulated Frankenstein into doing this deed for him. Frankenstein reacts to seeing the creature with disgust, calling him a “devil” and “sprang on him”, but the creature remained calm and collected, and he went on to convince Frankenstein to create a bride for him (ch. 10 p. 6.) In this, the creature shows that he is aware both of his own emotions and those of others. And he shows that he is capable of controlling his own emotions and manipulating other’s emotions. He is self-aware, capable of self-control, and capable of empathy. On the other hand, Frankenstein rejects companionship with Elizabeth and isolates himself in his apartment, he is irresponsible, and he clearly does not possess a single strategic thought or think things through at all. This lack of responsibility, forethought, and strategy is most evident with his creation of the creature. He performed his