This could represent Shelley’s view that man in the religious times, rejects something who’s characteristics do not fit gods standards. Furthermore the monster attempts to help the village and collects wood for them at night. The monsters kind gentle nature is juxtaposed with victors rapid dehumanisation in creating the creature. This juxtaposition is to create the idea that sometimes the ones rejected by society and the ones kindest at heart. The creature questions victor “cursed creator.
Both were treated unfairly and weren’t liked by people. They both were used in some sort of experiment. Firstly, who ever you are and whatever you lack shouldn’t hold you back from having friends. Both Charlie Gordon and the monster had difficulties appealing to people and this was very disturbing to them. For example, the monster was hated by all and he knew that he could never have someone that looked normal because of the way he was.
If only Frankenstein had given his creation a chance, the unjust treatments would have never happened. Another reason to feel more sympathy for the monster is because of his lack of companionship. Frankenstein had his best friend, Henry Clerval, and his wife, Elizabeth. He also had his parents. Except the monster had no one.
The creation of the monster, and the subsequent disasters that take place, all stem from Victors lack of sensibility. Blinded by his personal quest to create unnatural life, he does not consider that anything negative could arise from his experiments. After experiencing these negative effects he states: “Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself forever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage” (Shelley 174). Victor feels that if he would have thought about the consequences of his creation, he would have not participated in the creation of the creature.
He also creates the unhappiness amongst his replicants, “it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table,” through the flippant tone we see his lack of responsibility, like Frankenstein, he acts more like the monster than his creation. “Also extraordinary things, reveal in your time,” Tyrell’s dismissive tone, gives a similar impression of his lack of morality and care for others. Even when faced with the threat of death, he refuses to increase the happiness of his creation, much like Frankenstein when faced with the proposition of the creature; “I refused, and I did right in
Victor should have taken the monsters advice and made him a companion to just live out his life with. The monster was so enraged that Victor would not make this companion for him, that he vowed revenge on Victor. Revenge is something that even an animal cannot do; sometimes a child does not completely understand this term either. So how can a monster that no one gave the time of day to understand this concept? The only explanation is that he has more intellect that anyone thought or gave him credit for.
The horrible image of the creature's outward appearance physically isolated him from society. While society didn't isolate Valerie at first, her parents did. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, there was only one person who accepted the creature and that was a blind man who tried to comfort him, sadly the family of the man walked in on their conversation and ran the creature out. It was at that point the creature knew he'd never be accepted into society. With this realization of loneliness he found himself starved for affection.
However, I am sure he would not want the bullying gene. “The child still struggle, and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart: I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet” (Shelley 102). Sadly, something so fascinating turned into something murderous because of his appearance “can you wonder that such thoughts transported me with rage? I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony. I did not rush among mankind, and perish in the
Such violence is really only the cause of Roy’s pain, his emotions controlling his actions conflicts with our prejudice. Frankenstein's Monster's anguish comes from the rejection he feels from society “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”. Posing this Rhetorical question highlights the Irony of how the monster while innocent has been judged just as the reader has. Influenced by her father Mary Shelley's story of a monster portrays the idea that to be human goes beyond that of the body. The Monsters vulgarity and the Replicants perfection does not define them their reaction and action and the ability to think morally and ethically makes them human.
He did not know how to be evil or of revenge. He had all intentions for good; just treated poorly by society in which lead him to the capacity for evil. By thoroughly understanding the physical and social circumstances, motives for behavior, and capacity for good and evil you can make a well-rounded inference about who is the actual monster. From reading the novel and understanding each character; I came to the conclusion that the actual monster is victor Frankenstein. Even though the creation was gruesome, it all could have been avoided if Victor had of stayed in a scientists place and not tried to portray