Frankenstein Beauty Quotes

Frankenstein’s beauty

George Eliot once said, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” George Eliot was a prominent author in the 1850s who wrote about human struggles and a more realistic view of society. This quote is ubiquitous but contains the same amount of truth as it does popularity. It is not fair to judge people by appearance since that does not determine their personality. In addition, Mary Shelley explores this topic in the book Frankenstein. The creature is seen as a horrible monster because of his menacing stature and face. Mary Shelley relies on the nature of the frame story to confuse the reader through Victor’s and the monster’s narrations to prove that looks are deceiving.

Victor is the first person to give an impression of the creature,

While Victor ridicules the monster, the monster responds with, “Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend” (Shelley 90-91). The monster proves that he is good-natured, contrary to Victor’s harsh beliefs. Moreover, society constantly shames the monster for his appearance, no matter what deed he accomplishes. After the monster finds out that the DeLacey family is poor, he says, “When I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots” (Shelley 102). The monster that Victor described would never do such an act of kindness, so this introduces a whole new point of view for the reader. Likewise, The creature’s appearance keeps him from interacting with the cottagers, but he still goes out of his way to help them out. Then the monster saves a little girl who falls into a river: “she fell into the rapid stream. I rushed from my hiding place, and, with extreme labour from the force of the current, saved her, and dragged her to shore [...] the man saw me drew near, he aimed a gun [...] and fired” (Shelley 132-133). The man is misled by the creature’s appearance and shoots him as if the creature committed a crime. The creature proves to have morals, unlike the feral monster that Victor described him as. Despite being cast out by society for his looks and ridiculed by Victor, the monster demonstrates that he is