Monster Recipes In Frankenstein

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Richard Mason Instructor: Evan Peterson English 102 October 18, 2014 Monster Recipe There is some precaution that must be made when starting to create your own monster. You have to be very careful that you do not become a monster yourself. It is easy to become lost in the creation, forgetting yourself, and becoming the monster you set out to create. You must be able to self reflect to ensure this, and even then it may not help. We see this in history, people setting out to cure the world of monsters and in the end becoming the monster they professed to hate. If you are looking for a religion based recipe there is one for you! Religion has been able to create monsters for thousands of years. A religion will tell people that a particular…show more content…
These men being in power for so long could hardly bare the thought of change “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Shelley). They were being threatened with losing their power over people. These puritan ministers decided they needed to do something so they could remain in power “The ministers were believed to have encouraged the strange behavior so that they could increase their own influence over the people by showing that they were able to rid the afflicted from evil spirits” (The Salem Witch Trials-Home). This path they chose made monsters out of innocent people. Now for who was the real monster’s behind this is hard to tell. Was it the church who instigated this to keep people under their control? Or was it the people that followed blindly instead of asking important questions? Or was it these innocent women? Maybe they really were witches. The Recipe is there; with enough power and influence this one is easy to…show more content…
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein had Victor Frankenstein as the creator of the monster. Through his creation you can see Victor becoming the monster “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you” (Nietzsche). After Victor Frankenstein’s monster was created he is then set upon a path of his own. The Monsters first encounters with people lead him down a path of himself becoming a monster himself. This is a cycle that is not uncommon and continues in this day and age. Was the monster really a monster before his contact with man? Was his only sin being hideous to look upon? These monsters that have been created owe their birth to man. Whether these monsters come into existence to serve a purpose as with the puritan ministers or by a mob of children. To create a monster you must know something about them. You have to know how to strike fear into people. You have to know everything about the monster you want to create. To create a terrifying monster you must know how to make people hurt. This leads to the question if you know all these things and know how to project it onto someone else, are you not really the monster yourself? Works Cited Hu, Winnie. “Legal Debate Swirls Over Charges in a Student’s Suicide.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 01 Oct. 2010. Web 02 Nov. 2014 Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Charlottesville, VA: U of Virginia Library 1996.
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