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Frankenstein Human Quotes

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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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