Frankenstein Research Paper

Aiden Eggerling Ms. Mcnabb English 4H 10 May 2024.

The creature is what everyone claims it to be. Do not be fooled by this! People love to victimize the monster as being misunderstood, but the monster exhibits very monstrous behavior, not just his looks. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man obsessed with science named Victor that creates a creature while in a seemingly possessed state. After finishing, he comes out of his state and returns to reality and realizes the situation and runs away. The monster wakes up alone and is chased out, but along his journey he learns about humans and wants to be like one. There is one small problem though, he is a serial killer, the true evil in this novel. His first victim is a small child

With all this said, I believe that the monster is clearly the true monster, after all he stalks a family, after they reject him he burns their house down, is fueled by hatred for mankind, and finally he kills many innocent people in his path of destruction. While people’s theories and opinions may try to sway you, do not be led away from the truth! The truth is that the monster is exactly that, a cold blooded monster. Lets begin with the most “innocent” information, if you can even call it that. Frankenstein’s monster, after fleeing from the manor, stalks an innocent family. He stalks the family not for a small period of time, but instead, for several weeks, even months on end, without them even knowing. “Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends.” (Shelley, 131). The monster has spent so much time watching them that he even knows all about their history! The creature takes shelter inside their very home, in a little “hovel” attached to the side. As if that was not enough, he steals their food even after acknowledging that they are poor and cannot afford the food he takes. Then the monster tries to distract the family from his existence by gathering wood and placing

And of course, the family, like any other sane person, drives the monster out of the house. Sadly for them, the monster is just that, a monster. This then leads us to a part I find most saddening, not for the monster of course, but for that innocent family. After the family defends themselves and pushes out the monster, the monster does the unspeakable. Instead of acting rationally like a human, the creature is filled with hatred and acts just like what he is, a monster. He then burns down the innocent family’s house, the only house they could afford. Then, as if that was not enough, when the monster is retelling his story to Victor, he says, “I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have gutted myself with their shrieks and misery.” (Shelley, 146). Now if this doesn’t represent a true incarnate of evil, then I do not know what does. As if a sentient being that was driven by this much hatred could be called anything but a monster. The creature driven by this hatred killed many innocent people just because they were in his way of revenge. This leads me to my final point, the monster takes everything and everyone in his path of unjustifiable revenge. The creature is a