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Examples Of Stereotypes In Frankenstein

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Monsters today are pictured as scary creatures that no one likes or terrible people who have done horrible things to others. In the story, Frankenstein including the creature he created can be depicted as a monster. Frankensteins the monster in the story from his obsession with creating life and cutting himself away from his family, and making his creature an outcast to all to live in agony alone. It's very prevalent that there are two monsters in Frankenstein. Today if someone saw it from the outside they would say the monster is the creature, not Frankenstein because of its appearance. People familiarize themselves with stereotypes that all monsters are scary and the want to harm others but it's really the inside of them their motives and desires. “Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded …show more content…

“A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.’’ He shows that he truly loves creating but is filled with hatred from what he has created because it has killed the ones he loves. This isn't just the creatures doing; Victor has been the one to make him into what he is. Victor would not let the creature have a mate and rejected him causing it to kill all of his loved ones and flee away. “Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer! I could not doubt it. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact.” Victor’s hurt can be seen in the quote by how unhuman like the creature looks and him directly blaming the creature for the death of his

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