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Examples Of Ugliness In Frankenstein

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To begin with, the creature's ugliness resembles that of a monster, which instills fear in people, causing them to flee due to his hideous appearance. As Victor creates his monster, he imagines what it is going to look like. He worked for years on this creature and he dreams of this perfect creature that is so beautiful. However, the creature does not turn out how he expects, “I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created.” (Shelley 43). According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a monster is “a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty” (merriam-webster.com). The monster perfectly fits this definition, …show more content…

The monster then returns to the house, only to find that they fled from him. This angers the monster, and he, “. lit the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage.and with a loud scream I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes.The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped in flames” (Shelley 128). Anger has the ability to control people at times. However, how a person handles it reveals what type of person they are. The creature demonstrates that he is a true monster by destroying the DeLanceys' home out of anger at their abandonment. The monster's inability to control his emotions causes him to commit terrible and evil crimes. This, along with his appearance, makes him immensely frightening to everyone, as his frequent outbreaks of rage result in massive destruction. Additionally, the creature’s evil nature is seen through his deliberate murder of William. As the creature travels through the woods, he runs into a young boy. He grabs the child who tries to escape by squirming and yelling, but while doing so reveals himself as the son of M.

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She makes him seem like the most hideous thing ever seen by human eyes. She describes it as “I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”(Shelly pg.79). She makes the reader feel bad for Victor because the reader knows he works hard on the creature. However, know reader should feel remorse for Victor leaves his creature.

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The first major aspect that leads to the Creature’s fall from grace is appearance. Victor works tirelessly in academia because he believes to have found the solution to generate life. Once Victor succeeds, the Creature’s demonic appearance mortifies him. Victor describes his work with disdaining imagery, stating, “I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motivation, it became a thing such as even Dante could have conceived" (Shelley 36). Although Victor successfully creates what would be his greatest academic achievement, he abandons his creation, showing that the Creature's ugliness is a prevailing factor for his isolation from civilization.

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He fulfills this and creates the creature. Victor is horrified by the monster's appearance however. He later abandons the creature despite being his own successful creation. What does this say about the creature? If its own creator was horrified, then the rest of society would be horrified as well, but the creature does not know this.

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Later in the book, Victor refers to him as a “monster”. “Cursed be the fiend” (Shelly, 175) By using these words Victor focuses on his disappointment in the creature’s appearance. These words show how much looks can impact how one is perceived. This proves how even when Victor took the time to create the monster he later realizes how not ugly and hideous he

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Victor first begins creating the monster, working tirelessly for selfish reasons. His body suffers tremendously and he drags himself along treating his body like a slave. He states: “My cheeks have grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.” (Shelly 33)

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This isolation makes the monster cold, his innocence is now being diminished by the rude awakening of the cruel world. This eventually hurtles the monster into a fury and ends poor innocent William’s life, "I gazed on my victim and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph" (Shelley 83). With the

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Jonathan Villalobos Mrs. Sheplor Advanced English 2, Period 2 12 March 2018 “Of People and Monsters” The hopeful and disenchanted tones in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrates the creature’s evolution from a c/ompassionate and loving being to an incensed creature who wants to take revenge on the world. The creature was initially an affectionate life form but became diabolical when the humans he cared so much for rejected him. Some might say that Victor Frankenstein is the true villain since he acted with hatred and resent towards the creature, however the creature is the true monster since murdered Frankenstein's family in cold blood.

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Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines a monster as "a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty. " The being is unnatural right from the very beginning; his "birth." He was not carried in his mother's womb and delivered as normal babies are. The being is solely a construction of random corpses' bodily parts sewn together and brought to life. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, society continually regards Victor's creation as a monster, both physically and psychologically.

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As the novel continues he destroyed many families and sought revenge, as a result all of the negative inside him steered him to go down the wrong path. By killing innocent people the creature, through the knowledge he learned his personality changed and paved his way for the rest of his

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(Grimly,113-114) It allowed itself to kill William and Justine because its rage took control. It may seem human to lose control but, once you murder innocents and all that blood is in your hands, you are no longer human. Its emotions guided it to a world of blood where it shows its true form. Once your emotions take over your soul is lost forever, and it shows the darkest form of you.

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It’s destructive to let one have such a physical advantage over other people being mentally stable , but being mentally unstable with that, is the worst possible combination. That’s like giving the angriest person you know a gun, having a bunch of terrible events happen to him continuously and then they act upon how they feel. “The creature” was very frustrated with the world after finding out Victor was grossed out by him, then de lacey got scared off by him because the little kids made a huge deal he was there because they could see him, and lastly seeing as everyone hates him for no fair reason, the monster swears revenge on all people, particularly that jerk who created him only to live miserably, ugly, and alone. "I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world.

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This experience allows the monster to realize, that despite being perfect beings, even beauty can experience sorrow, just as ugliness can experience serenity. The monster also learns that the family is in similar position as his own, in which they are isolated from their society due to their crimes. From this judgement, the monster is able to approach the father of the household, by disguising himself as a lowly traveller in need of shelter, the

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With more broadcasting of evil each day, the question; “what makes a monster” is often asked. Monstrosity is the state or fact of being monstrous. Monstrous by definition can mean having a frightening opinion, extremely large, or a person who is outrageously evil. Many artists and journalist have tried to tackle the question, though two authors in particular stand out. In Frankenstein Mary Shelley uses the hideous looks of the monster along with the average looks of Victor to show her readers that monstrosity comes from within.

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Victor selfishly creates the Creature to gain prestige, pretentiously claiming himself as a human god when he succeeds and saying it was for the sake of humanity. In reality, he creates a grotesque being and abandons it the moment his illusions shatter, making the creature a victim because he denies the responsibility of raising it causing hardships for it. Victor also believes the creature is a reprobative individual since it kills his brother and foists Justine’s execution, thus he acts inimical towards it throughout the whole novel as he invectively exclaims, “Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes” (93).

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The monster is said to be a replica of Frankenstein. The monster has no control over his aggression and continues to murder his master’s loved ones. Although, this aggression is spurred on from the rejection and sorrow that humanity has placed on him (Cantor 117). The creature’s ultimate sorrow is caused by the denial of a companion

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