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The Creature is human because Victor Frankenstein designed him that way. When Victor planned to create his creation, he aspired to “give life to a majestic human being but it went wrong and his creature plan failed to work. The creature is human but isn't considered a human being in our modern day society. Before creating the creature, Victor states, "But my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to such arduous undertaking; but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being" (Grimly 36) this quote means …show more content…

When the creature talks about the impoverished family that he observed, he says, "'What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered from the barbarous villagers, and resolved that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching, and endeavoring to discover the motives which influenced their actions'" (Grimly 95) The monster wants to join the family to eat but the way they treat him makes him not want to. This is another reason why the monster would possibly be considered human. After reading Victor's scientific notes, the creature "exclaimed in agony. ‘Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested...'" (Shelley, Chapter 7, 6). This shows his feelings about

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The tallest person in the world was 8 feet and 11inches. His name was Robert Pershing Wadlow. People who disagree with the creature being a human will also say that he murders people so that makes him a monster or animal. That still could make him human because many people have evil in them and there might be things that could set people off to do something bad. What I am saying is that killing is not good but also people have killed before and they are still consider human.

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The creature is no different than humans in the way that humans can kill, be kind or be violent and miserable, which the creature shows and experiences. As the creature learns more he encounters villagers with "gentle manners" and some barbarous villagers" who treat him like trash. If humans are so called humans because of their sympathy and compassion, then humans shouldn 't be considered humans if they kill or become violent. The men the creature meets are just as defective as he becomes. Just like any human around the creature 's "heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy", but he also experiences "misery" and "violence" he is "filled with an insatiable thirst for vengeance" (190).

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The creature defends himself and says that when he first was made, he was kind, compassionate, he showed any characteristic of a normal human. Just because of a person's outer appearance, it does not mean they are not human. He also shows happiness when he had returned the bread and even chopped wood for the family in the house. He felt

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The topic of Dr Frankenstein playing God can be related to the current day issue of abortion laws. Creating life should just be the act of God and taking it away is in the same context. Twenty years before Shelly published "Frankenstein" Luigi Galvani discovered that electricity could make a dead person's muscles twitch and simulate some type of life. This portrays the belief that reanimation is possible. The common belief of Dr Frankenstein playing God in this novel can also be portrayed as an issue between all religions.

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Is Frankenstein’s creature a Human? The creature is not human because the creator of the creature, and the creature itself do not consider him as a human. Victor Frankenstein ran to his room after seeing the creature in its full scale for the first time. He jumped onto the bed in fear of what he saw.

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On the other hand, I disagree with people saying Frankenstein 's creature is human because, yes of course, I understand that he is very reasonable and coordinated about vocally speaking to others, but besides that, look at his looks. Eight feet tall is not a usual height for a person, and his bone structure, you can see both bone and skin tissue, sticking out of his body. Adding on, Victor 's creature is not human, because the creature has no parents, siblings, or relatives what so ever, another thought is that the creature was not even born, he was created in a lab, instead of seeing him as human, see him as a scientific nightmare. I think that Victor 's creature is not human, referring to the text he was created eight feet tall, like who is born, eight feet tall that

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Charity Cochran Mrs. Harvey English 10 3 November 2022 In the book Frankenstein we read about how a man wants to create life, and how his creation doesn’t turn out the way he imagined it in his own mind. Frankenstein was very fast to judge what he had made just on how he looked . He treated his creation like it was nothing; threw it away like trash. “As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost of malice and treachery.”

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Victor conveys that any human cannot withstand the ugliness of the face of the monster. A simile is used to compare a mummy risen from the dead is not even as close to disturbing as the despicable monster he created. The Dante references to Dante’s Inferno, Dante has come across many demons in hell but, even Frankenstein’s monster is viler than any demon in hell. In response to the monster being born Victor flees in horror. He wants nothing to do with the monster it frightens him so that he deserts it to fend for itself in his apartment not caring about any sort of trouble the monster can cause: “I then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be in there, alive and walking about.

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The old man didn 't judge him for having no friends or for being unable to see him, but instead said “Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men are full of brotherly love and charity."(105) This encouraged the creature to take more action by asking him and his family to be friends, but since the creature was only seen "monster" because of his appearance, the couple had begun to punch him, where he started to dash out of the cottage and was overcome with pain. This shows that the creature is only judge as not being a human, but if you stop to think and hear him, he is close enough to becoming a human being with his knowledge and

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There are many reasons that Frankenstein's creature can be considered human. One reason the creature is human is because of the way he relates so much to humans. One example, when talking about reading the Sorrows of Werter, the creature says, “As I read, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathized with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none.”(102).

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The creature wants to take revenge on Victor for abandoning him and causes Victor grief by killing the people he cares about. When the creature kills, Victor feels responsible and guilty of the murders. He continually breaks down with each death by “his” hands, which makes him go mad. The task of creating a monster turned Victor into a monster

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One of the most famous quotes ever heard, said by Wayne Gretzy, is “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor gladly would have not taken a shot if he knew it would ruin his life for good. Victor Frankenstein’s continuous ambition and thirst for knowledge provides insight that although knowledge is perceived as good, it can be dangerous. Victor’s quest for knowledge leads to self-isolation, creation of a monster, and eventually the deaths of his loved ones. Victor’s longing to learn, which eventually leads to his isolation from his family and friends, proves that searching for knowledge is not always ideal.

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To answer that, we firstly need to define what makes someone human. According to http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ a human is someone that is “subject to or indicative of the weaknesses, imperfections, and fragility associated with humans”. Mary Shelley makes it very clear that the monster possess the same traits as a human. The monster feels, talks and acts as a human regardless of the fact that it does not obtain the looks of one. Since he is artificially created and does not look like a human, his creator Victor Frankenstein is repulsed by it and shuns him.

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Monsters Are Not Born, They Are Created A monster is classified as someone hideous, commits poor actions, and is of considerable size. Gris Grimly introduces the audience to such a horrendous creation in his graphic novel Frankenstein. He illustrates the horrible actions the creation had committed to tearing down others. Although others may present reasonable evidence for Victor, they are inaccurate because they lack the reason behind his actions.

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The monster in Frankenstein is the one who is hated because of his ugliness. His form is unpleasant, but his spirit may be human. There are two-sided about this. Most people consider that the monster in the story is not a human, in my view he is true human. Most people consider that the monster in the story is not a human because of his birth and vitality.

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