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Bridgette Busse 03/10/17 3rd period Frankenstein Literary Essay: Prompt #3 When you have a child you teach them, you help them grow and learn, you prepare them for the big scary world ahead of them. That is something that the Frankenstein monster never got, Victor gave life to something to someone, but didn’t give him the tools needed to survive. He never taught him how to love, how to laugh, how to interact with people, he never gave him a chance at a normal life. He created this person gave life to him then completely abandon him to fend for himself in a big cold world that he knew nothing about. It’s almost not even a surprise that the monster turned against his creator. In my personal opinion I think the way Victor handled the …show more content…

He could feel, smell, and hear everything and he now had emotions and feelings that he couldn't control and that he didn’t understand. He didn’t know what these things were, he was cold, alone, and scared. As he tried to befriend people, they screamed and ran in fear or tried to hurt him. He looked at his reflection and realized that he was not like normal humans, he realized that he was a hideous monster. This saddened him because he then realized that he would never be accepted by …show more content…

When he stuck his hand into the fire he quickly withdrew it saying “In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain”, he used life experience to learn how to survive. When he watched the cottage dwellers he learned their language by listening to Felix teach Safie the language. He observed the objects they have in their home and what they called them. He also learns about their lives, their personalities, and their emotions. He studies and watches hoping to befriend them, and when the reject him because he looks like a monster it starts a rage in him that is uncontrollable. He wants to seek revenge on his creator and the rest of mankind, for rejecting him because of his physical nature rather than his heart. He says in chapter sixteen, “I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with stagelike

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