Frankenstein Belonging Essay

It is human nature to want to have a sense of belonging. If it's for a group or an event, it doesn't matter. The only thing they want is to feel accepted. In Shelley's Frankenstein, a creature who is constantly shunned by his creator displays how constant rejection can alter what will occur.
The creature wasn’t always a notorious toddler murderer. His creator rejected him, despite his initial desire for acceptance and desire. Victor's convoluted personality becomes prevalent during this time as he continues to constantly reject the creature despite knowing all he craves is a sense of being accepted. This in terms leads the monster to murder William and in terms leads Victor to continue to outcast the creature only this time with fear. The

Despite Mr. DeLacy having “seen” the creature for more than just his physical appearance, the DeLacys were not there upon the creature’s return which would ignite a burst of rage leading him to bring down their cabin. Initially, we might deem this as an act of bitter rage, but upon further inspection, we simply see a creature who had one last bit of hope that he could be loved and accepted be completely taken from him. This would in terms lead him to want to make his creator feel how he felt, with distress and confusion as to why the things that are occurring are occurring. The setting of the woods assists in invoking a sense of eerieness, as we see it as a recurring setting it continues to instill that sense of unsettlement and in a way isolation since we only know of one cabin in the woods which could be interpreted as the one creature and how he feels as if he is being destroyed, hence him burning the cabin down potentially trying

Of course, as we see throughout the story he is unable to do that for himself so instead, he asks him to create him a bride. Despite agreeing to create a bride for the creature he does not create one for fear of what would happen now that there is two creature who comes from the same creator. The creature of course becomes upset and again, instills how he feels onto Frankenstine. Similar to how Frankenstine was not allowing him to be happy he would kill his bride, Elizabeth. This would drive Victor mad as he would be in search of the monster. The monster, however, discovers Victor and mourns over his death, and he can’t fathom the fact that his creator has died, this would also eventually leads the monster to kill himself. Although he finally got rid of the root of his problems, the monster was still initially a good being and felt sorrow for what had occurred (finally some remorse for a death), which only continues to assist in depicting how the creature was morally ambiguous even at the time of his