It takes a true person to look past the horror and terror of the monster Grendel. This shows that our society is quick to judge things that they are unfamiliar with. Grendel is a horrifying monster, but acts like this because that is where he comes from. He receives no love and attention from the human society in which he wants to be a part of, so his actions are taken out on that, depicting him as a savage beast. If our society wasn’t so quick to judge from the outside appearance, maybe they would see a lost, lonely creature, just craving and searching for a way to fit
The monster comes into the world by a pretty terrible set of circumstances. He has the strength of a giant, yet an infant mind. He has a gentle nature, yet his physical defects hide his goodness and make everyone fear and mistreat him. He is rejected by his own creator because of his hideous looks. His feelings are the most deep and moving of any character’s in this novel, as well as the most conflicted.
Victor represents society intent on pushing the boundaries and themonster represents the product of this curiosity; of technology gone wrong;technology without ethics. “Accursed creator! Why do you form a monster so hideousthat even you turn away from me in disgust?” The monsters constant rhetoricquestioning addresses these ethics and illuminates the monster as a symbol of innocence in the face of corruption. Victor’s relationships also allow insight into themoral dilemma of creation. Victor’s positive family relationship is juxtaposed againsthis spite for the monster, a somewhat child of his.
The decisions the creature makes out of his suffering, or his characterization, show that one may not overcome suffering. The creature is also turned away without being taught a thing and suffers from the confusion over the world. The conflicts with Victor continue on multiple occasions in Frankenstein. Once the creature learns that it is his appearance that causes people to flee and reject him, he despises himself, but even more Victor. His suffering over his rejection in society had fueled his angry making him hostile.
“If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” Before this quote, Boxer was arguing passionately against Squealer about Snowball’s alignment until the latter mentions that their leader, comrade Napoleon, said that Snowball was with humans. This makes Boxer immediately crush his own opinion with Napoleon’s views that shows how much Boxer has been ‘indoctrinated’. This quote from Boxer: “It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder.” This quote shows Boxer’s belief that the pigs would never be at fault at any of the mistakes in the farm’s system. In addition, his main line “Napoleon is always right” shows that Boxer regards Napoleon very highly.
There has to be a trigger to make them no longer have any innocence, and sacrifice themselves as a person. Our Creator is not evil; he wouldn’t make us to be like that either. Great thinkers believed that humans are evil. Philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and also Sigmund Freud believed that humans were evil. Towards the end of his life, Freud became largely disenchanted with the human species and considered us one of the worst types of animals.
This could cause conflict between the creator and the created as Victor is repeatedly insulting the monster. In addition, Victor rejects the Monster immediately after its creation; he calls it a 'wretch' and leaves it to fend for itself. This shows how irresponsible Victor is as he abandons his responsibilities. It is also another example of him neglecting his family, since the Monster sees him as its father. This creates conflict between the monster and Victor as the monster soon begins to hate him for abandoning him.
DiPietro-2 Again, good is being shown, in this circumstance the kenning “mighty protector of men” portrays Beowulf as a supernatural being of good and that it is his obligation to fight for humanity. In addition, it shows the severity of this battle, because it will determine whether good or evil triumphs (“fiend was no use to anyone in Denmark”). In the end, “ A prince of the Geats, had killed Grendel, ended the grief, the sorrow, the suffering […] by a bloodthirsty fiend”(404-407). The expression of despair the monster forces unto the Danes is a representation of evil. Additionally, the fact Beowulf is successful shows that good is
Richard overcompensates his inferiority. Richard is directly influenced by a society that does not respect him, and so he does not respect himself or society. Richard is a slave to his devilish nature, and acts on his animal instinct throughout the play. These animal characteristics are emphasized by the various metaphors in the play. The other characters liken Richard “to wolves, to spiders, toads, or any creeping venom’d thing that lives.” Shakespeare portrays Richard as a monster and a beast.
Alex is a mix of the most vile trouble and irresistible appeal. He feels that in choosing to be evil, he is choosing to be human, and that evil is the natural state for all human beings. The State, however, disagrees with him. It tries to strip him of his choice to be himself, violent or not. His struggle against his totalitarian government represents the struggle of human nature against the automaton, the individual against the mass as a whole and freedom against necessitarianism.