Frankenstein Compare And Contrast Essay

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is one many students do not like the idea of when they are forced to read it, but many valuable items are taught in this particular text. Through examination of the character I did not like, the character I did like, the relation of the text to the EQi, and the several lessons the book presents, I learned a lot from Mary Shelley. Frankenstein should definitely be taught to more students and accompanied by an in-depth analysis of it’s meaning. The character I liked the most was De Lacy, the old man that lived in the cottage in the woods with his children. The majority of the appeal that comes from this character is the fact that he is blind, so all his judgement of everyone, including the monster, comes

The first is with impulse control, demonstrated by the monster, who has very little impulse control. From the time of his creation, the monster was after revenge (Shelley 95). He wants revenge on Victor Frankenstein for creating him and giving him such a miserable existence. The way the monster decides to do this is by hurting the people around Victor, instead of Victor himself, so that he knows that it feels like to be miserable. First, Victor’s brother William is killed (47). This starts off a chain of events, specifically a chain of death, that impacts Victor’s life, and shows the monster has no impulse control. When the monster finds Victor’s journals and realizes his true feelings towards him, that furthers the monsters anger and makes him want to lash out even more (91). Eventually, after Victor decides not to make a female monster, Henry is killed, and it is assumed that the monster had something to do with it (127). One of the final murders in the book is that of Elizabeth (141). This murder Victor knows for sure was the monster, and at this point it is Victor who is searching for revenge. All the deaths that are either directly or indirectly linked to the monster in the book show his low impulse control. At the end of the book, when Walton sees the monster crying over Victor’s dead body, it shows that maybe the monster is regretting the decisions he has made and what he did to Victor’s life