Fame being one of Frankenstein’s prime motive for creating a superhuman portrays that he does not realize his motive will cause low credibility. Even though the monster is portrayed as ugly and demonic, he longs for a female companion of the same species that will understand him. Moreover, because his physical appearance does not fit in with those around him, he claims he is mean because he is alienated. Thus, Victor suggests the monster’s words are reasonable and promises to create the monster’s companion. However, in the process of his work, Victor slacks off and
Victor has not only treated the monster with heartless emotions but has repudiated Frankenstein, this helps express your sorrow. “I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster whom I had created.” Not only does it show Victors distaste but his abandonment towards the monster, which attract pity towards Frankenstein. The way Mary Shelley uses the term “monster” to address Frankenstein only adds to the feeling of neglect created by Mary Shelley. At the beginning of chapter 5 she describe the creation of Frankenstein, the way Victor discarded Frankenstein as if only a mere tool makes the reader feel a throbbing pain. The reaction of Victor changes the role between him and Frankenstein, making Victor the monster.
The second difference between the 1931 movie version of Frankenstein and the book version is that in the book the monster’s actions are a result of his outrage at the poor treatment and his physically revolting appearance. However in the movie the monster acts the way it does because of its poor treatment at the hands of Frankenstein’s assistant Fritz. In the movie Fritz supplies dim-wittedly supplies Frankenstein with the brain of an executed criminal to be used in his experiment. It can thus be reasoned that Frankenstein’s
‘His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks”. Psychologically, for the reader this becomes distressing as people have an aversion to children in distress and this causes the reader to feel for the monster and sympathize with him whilst an immediate dislike for Frankenstein also begins This hatred toward Frankenstein continues, Victor Frankenstein, the creatures own ‘father’, as such, the man who gave him life, describes him repeatedly as a ‘wretch’, a’ daemon’ and a ‘monster’, As readers we get the sense that Victor is unhappy and feels crestfallen at the fact his knowledge towards life and the anticipation of creating life, did not work out as he expected, we get the feeling that if he could, Frankenstein would change the timing and the way in which he created life, this is an example of the Sublime which is a key theme from the gothic genre within this section of the novel as Victor feels an overpowering sense of power over nature, as he has
The combination of these two techniques establishes the point in which Shelly has made that Victor was doing something beneficial for the world. This perspective on his project changes once the monster is created through the use of technology. This is shown when Victor says “Never will I create someone like you equal in deformity and wickedness.” Shelly’s use of first person once again evokes a connection with the reader whilst the use of the nouns “deformity” and “wickedness” allow the reader to feel that Frankenstein regrets his actions. Thus, as Victor’s perspective on technology changes the reader’s perspective does as well. Shelly does this to warn against industrialization.
The creature is called “monster” in the book because people perceive his looks are a monster. When the creature finally sees himself he says, “ I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers- their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions; but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool” (Shelly 94). The creature knows that he looks like a monster and gets rejected by everyone. It makes him even more angry because he is not a monster, he just wants a friend. 2.
In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the creature is assumed to be evil by everyone he encounters. Many people that read this novel believed the creature is born evil. In my opinion you cannot be born evil , but you have to experience many hardships or negative experiences that make you become evil. At the beginning of the novel the creature was never giving a chance to show that he was not evil because his own creator left him. The creature was treated badly by others which made him feel unwanted and for him to do evil things.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author presents her thoughts and impressions of society. Shelley portrays the defects of society, arguing that society sees only physical appearance rather than adhering to what is truly important in a human being’s character. Shelley supports the following argument by revealing the creature whose form is extremely monstrous and unfamiliar to society, but who he is also just as human as Victor and Elizabeth. Shelley conveys the importance of appearance in society; The effect of monstrosity thus plays a major part in Frankenstein. Shelley presents a situation where society is ignorant about the unfamiliar, different, and is also unwilling to accept and embrace the unusual.
During Shelley’s time period, females were considered to be inferior to men, but Shelley shows how men actually feared a woman’s power. For example, when Frankenstein was creating the female mate for his monster, he started thinking about the consequences of having a female version of his monster in the world. He thought that she can create a whole new race of them and that she would not listen to the male monster and do things her own way. These were horrifying to Victor and all of these were thoughts of fear. Frankenstein feared the power of the female and her capabilities.
The monster also always runs away from him leaving some traces for Frankenstein. The reason why the monster leaves some marks would be that he didn’t want to break the relationship with Frankenstein because he was the only person who knew and proved the existence of the creature himself in the world. And also the creature thought Frankenstein as a God or father even though he really cursed the Frankenstein who made him to live in the harsh world without any help. We can see this with the tears and ejaculation of creature at the moment of death of Frankenstein. I think this is the most sorrowful part in the whole story.