Frankenstein Essay

In the book, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the protagonist, a mad scientist named

Victor Frankenstein creates a hideous, gigantic living creature from lifeless body parts. The

creature then hints at the protagonist to develop a companion because he is unable to fit into

society and make friends due to his physical appearance. Victor eventually gave in and began his

research for his second project. Unfortunately, close to being done with his creation, all the

flashbacks and the trauma of creating his first creature flooded Victor’s mind, resulting in Victor

completely obliterating the lifeless body. By doing this, it is completely unfair to the creature for

Victor neglects him and leaves him alone in life. Building

Creating a companion for the creature

would allow the creature an opportunity to function normally in society.

Constructing a companion for the creature would cure all the neglect and

the loneliness that Victor has induced in the monster. In chapter 13, the monster is telling Victor

of his stories, and he begins to explain to Victor how lonely and out of place the creature feels

and how he feels he has nothing to contribute to society. “Of my creation and creator, I was

absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.”

(chapter 13) In this quote, the creature is basically telling Victor that he has nothing to live for.

The creature has no friends and no family, just a creator that abandoned him. If Victor were to

create a companion or a friend for the creature, he would have something to live for and enjoy

life as he should. Growing up, Victor Frankenstein had a companion, Elizabeth, growing up, so it

is only fair for the creature to have the same advantage.

At the beginning of the story, Elizabeth is introduced through a series of

The creature is the consequence of

Victor’s science experiment and Victor should be responsible for that consequence. It was unjust

for the doctor to abandon the creation that he was responsible for creating. It was even more

unjust for the doctor to promise the creature a companion to later break his promise and

completely demolish the body. Victor breaks this promise to the creature because he starts to

worry about what will happen if the second monster is even more relentless and ruthless than the

first monster he created. “As I looked at him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of

malice and treachery. I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another

like him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.” (148)

While Victor is working on his project, he begins to think what would happen if both creatures

were together and how much destruction both of those would cause. He also began to