Frankenstein Human Quotes

In Mary Shelley's Novel Frankenstein, the main character Victor Frankenstein was very interested of life and death, but one day Victor's desire of finding the truth about life was too much so he created a creature. While Victor was working on the creature he went to get the right parts in graveyards to give a man look on the creature. Victor worked hard every day to prove himself that he can give a thing animation. But then when the creature woke up victor was terrified of what he made but also surprised himself of how the skin and hair looked human. Then Victor ran away from the creature abandoning everything even though the creature would live a lonely life in a new world he was brought into. But the real question is the creature human or not. The two reasons the creature is human is that he was created a man and he has emotion

For example, in the novel, Victor states, "But my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. (Chapter 3 Page 37). In the quote from the novel, it supports my claim because Victor wanted to challenge himself to make a human because if Victor didn't want to make a human he could have just used animal parts for the creature but instead he used human parts from the graveyard.

Another reason that the creature is human is that the creature has a soul and has emotion. For example, the creature says, "'How can I move thee? Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone?'(Volume 2 Chapter 2 Page 83). This evidence supports my reason because the creature is basically saying that he was happy once but he's now alone. Then later in the novel when Victor got sick and died the creature visited him and was too late and the creature started crying and, in the end, the creature took Victors dead body and