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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.
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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

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The novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, tells the story of a scientist, Victor, who unleashes chaos after he creates a monster that society deems ugly. The monster learns about humanity and navigates through the world. As the monster learns about humanity, he seeks vengeance on Victor and this leads to the tragedy of his loved ones. His love interest, Elizabeth, who is seen as beautiful by society is one of the loved ones affected by Victor's actions. It is important to understand how both Elizabeth and the monster were judged superficially and the consequences it had.

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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.”

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The monster is also capable of wanton destruction when he burns down the DeLaceys’ house and dances “with fury around the devoted cottage”(123) like a savage. Finally, the monster seems to enjoy the pain he causes Frankenstein: “your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred” (181) he writes to Victor. Were these pieces of evidence taken out of context, the reader would surely side with Frankenstein. But Shelley prevents such one-sidedness by letting the monster tell his version of the story. The monster’s first-person narrative draws the reader in and one learns that the creature is not abomination

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Isolation and a lack of companionship is the tragic reality for the monster, who was abandoned by his creator and is repulsive to everyone that he comes across. Victor removes himself from society for many months; severing nearly all human contact then renouncing his creation based on the monster's appearance. As the monster matures he begins to understands the relationship the cottagers share with one another, while the monster, “yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures: to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition. ”(Shelley). Armed with nothing but the longing for a real connection, the monster approaches his unknowing hosts only to be “brutally attacked—by those he trusted...because of their human ignorance.

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