Origin. The word represents a sense of beginning. Someone’s origin isn’t so much of a mystery. A common origin amongst humans is the hospital. Everyone comes into the world through birth. No one is brought from the baby store or delivered by a stork. Origin can also relate to family, where they are from, and how it relates to a person. This can shape a person’s personality in many ways. For example, someone with a tough childhood can be more introvert and mentally unstable compared to someone that has had a fairly decent childhood. Their past can affect their future. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the creature has an unusual origin that affects his relationship with his creator and with society because he’s being isolated.
The feeling of rejection is painful. The creature is unwanted by society. He wants to have
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Dr. Frankenstein makes his creature to cure illness, only to soon realize his plan didn’t work out. Instead of owning up to his actions, he simply shuns his creation. “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us,” (Shelley, 113). Being rejected by the world is hurtful, but being disowned by a “parent” is a knife to the heart. He begins to commit violent acts to get his creator to notice him. The creature murders Dr. Frankenstein’s younger brother. He murders him to show Dr. Frankenstein what it feels like to lose someone close and what loneliness feels like. “The letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend— I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT,” (Shelley, 231). Since the creature is deprived of a companion, he kills Dr. Frankenstein’s wife to show him what a loveless life is. The creature eventually does get the attention he was seeking from his creator. Dr. Frankenstein dedicates his life to hunting the