unfinished essay- frankenstein

unfinished essay- frankenstein

  • Submitted By: that-girl
  • Date Submitted: 06/22/2015 9:56 AM
  • Category: English
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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the only thing that the creature wants is love and acceptance, but society only judges him on his physical appearance. The creature deserves sympathy because he is judged so harshly, solely on his looks. He is never given the chance to show his true nature, and people only see him as a monster because of his monstrous appearance. The only thing the creature yearns for is love, acceptance and compassion, which is hard for him to demonstrate as he has never had a teacher or a role model of any kind to teach him about humanity.

During the creatures whole life, he is never given the opportunity to show his true nature. His creator, Victor is so frightened by the creatures appearance when he awakes, that he will not allow the monster to murmur one word before he runs away, in terror. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room… No mortal could support the horror of that countenance… I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as Dante could not conceived.” (Shelley, 49-50) When Victor creates the monster, he chooses parts that are perfect by themselves. When these parts are patched together and moving, Victor is terrified of losing his life, but more importantly he is afraid of how people will view him after creating such a monstrous-looking being. He alludes to Dante Alighieri, who wrote about all of the ‘levels’ of hell, and the punishments that were in each one, in his poem titled “Inferno”. Victor says that the devil is nowhere as fiendish as the awful monster that he has freed for the world to see. This hatred, and abandonment that the creature experiences at the very first seconds in his life, is the first time that he is shunned by someone that he thought he could trust. The creature is left to fend for himself and he eventually ends up in a forest, near a farm where the Delacy family...

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