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How Does The Creature's Attack In Frankenstein

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The Creature’s Attack Against Victor In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature acts as a foil for his creator, Victor Frankenstein, revealing how men who act as God face consequences that ultimately lead to their own emotional decline. With this, the creature’s repulsive appearance, harm to Victor’s brother and wife, and desire to be accepted by society accentuates Victor’s fear, misery after the creation of his creature, and societal acceptance. The creature’s cadaverous looks emphasize Victor’s fear to take care of his creature. The creature being “Formed into a hideous and gigantic creature (Shelley 58)” made “Disgust fill [Victor’s] heart (59).” This made Victor “unable to endure the aspect of [the] being [he] created, [causing Victor to] rush out of the room (59).” Since Victor did not use a …show more content…

While this power is similar to God’s ability to procreate, he sadly abandons his menacing creature and does not take responsibility by taking care of it. Due to this abandonment, he now only has two ways to avoid his creation: to escape and to hide. Unfortunately, Victor’s survival tactic of running away from his impending doom depicts Victor’s fear and unethical self-centeredness. His self-centeredness illustrates his irresponsibility to care for his newly emerged creature. Unlike Victor’s inability to take responsibility for his inchoate creation, God, who provides his creations with the necessary things to live in prosperity, takes responsibility for his actions indisputably. God provided Earth with the vital resources to sustain life; however, Victor does not provide

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“A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.’’ He shows that he truly loves creating but is filled with hatred from what he has created because it has killed the ones he loves. This isn't just the creatures doing; Victor has been the one to make him into what he is. Victor would not let the creature have a mate and rejected him causing it to kill all of his loved ones and flee away. “Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child.

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I would not be surprise how Victor 's creation had caused him so much stress and depression ever since Victor had created the creature, which then led up to his death. According to Gris Grimly 's Frankenstein, the creature had devoted himself to follow his creator, to cause him pain and suffering, he had done this to show Victor how he feels because he had read Victor 's notes saying how Victor felt about his creation, and the creature was not to ecstatic about reading that. Besides that, I believe Victor Frankenstein 's creature is not human, because of many reasons. Adding on, here are a few reasons why I believe Victor 's creature is not human. When Victor was on his death bed he had said, "he is eloquent and persuasive; and once his words had even power over my heart: but trust him not.

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Although Victor’s idea was a clear vision. He came to realize that expectations did not come to reality after and that God's power should remain in his hands alone. By examining the relationship between Victor and The Monster, this essay addresses how Victor took no responsibility for his mistake and, in return, faced the consequence.

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Keeping a secret is sometimes a good thing to do, but on some cases it is the complete opposite. Secrets eventually get discovered and consequences are the outcome of it. Both novels, Jane Eyre and Frankenstein, explore the idea of keeping secrets as a destructive concept. The character keeping secrets in the novel Jane Eyre was Rochester, boss and lover of Jane. On the other hand, the person keeping secrets in the novel Frankenstein was none other than the main character, Frankenstein.

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Well, he responded yes, but when starting on his second creation, he decided it was wrong. He decided this after thinking about the consequences it would bring. Someone might be familiar with the saying “Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right”;Victor did two wrongs. First, he used his knowledge to do wrong (played “God”) and not good.

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He initiates the hostile relationship, threatening the creation, “We are enemies. Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight in which one must fall” (103). Just as Victor abandons the creation from the day he creates him, Victor demands for the creation to leave him. Victor’s first instinct is to escape, avoiding his creature, and the responsibility he has to him as the creator. He rejects love in the relationship, while the creation seeks it from his estranged author.

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With this in mind, God can be viewed as an all powerful being who can easily conjure humans into existence, while providing a set of moral beliefs to ensure a prosperous life. Based upon this definition of God, Victor’s pursuit in creating life may at first resemble acts of God; but, much like a chair missing a leg, Victor’s overpowering creature, ordinary abilities, and lack of influence over his creation falls short of the qualifying aspects of a

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man that creates human life. The abandonment, unhappiness, and misunderstandment between the creature and the other characters causes a lot of suffering. Throughout the novel no one will give him a chance to show them that he is not harmful, despite his appearance. If Victor wouldn´t have turned him away from the very beginning he could have saved a lot of people from getting hurt. As soon as the creature comes to life Victor is startled by his appearance, as well as everyone else in the novel.

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Victor has harsh words for his very creation. It can be said that Victor did not even give his creation a chance to share his inward

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Whether something terrible will come from his actions does not just have a chance of happening. There is no doubt about it; he must live with it as a certainty. As long as he cannot hope for nothing wrong to happen, and if something terrible were to happen, he would be rendered inactive because he is simultaneously deprived of hope and fear. Although Victor was born as a passive observer, he is much more of a passive observer than someone actively engaged in claiming responsibility for his actions after the creation of the creature.

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Because Victor turns a blind eye to the creation, he vows revenge against him and all the people Victor loves. Even though the man receives little guidance and support, he becomes a monster similar to Victor because of his choices to do evil: murder and take revenge. Critic Magill explains, “His revenge, although excessive, is motivated” (322). The creation could have the decency to move on with his life, but one factor prevents him. His appearance restrains him from having a normal life despite the capacity for love and affection he harbors in his heart.

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