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Is Frankenstein A Hero Or A Villain Analysis

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How would it feel to be searching for love and acceptance your whole life and never be able to find it? That is exactly what the creature did in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, constantly getting rejected and looked at with disgust, led the creature to have so much hate and rage in his heart. The creature in Frankenstein can easily be looked at as the villain, but Victor is the real villain in the story. Victor is the villain in this story because he decided to create a being, give it life, and then got scared and completely rejected him. From the moment the creature awoke Victor rejected him and never gave him a chance to live before making judgements based on what his appearance, “... the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my …show more content…

Unable to endure the aspect of the being i had created…”(58). Though the creature did quite a few terrible things throughout this story, “‘The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in that moment he lay dead at my feet” (144), he had to figure out how to live all on his own without anyone to love and support him. All the creature wanted was to be accepted, protected and loved, but no one ever gave that to him, which led him to turn bitter and wretched. “The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures…”(134) “At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?”(137). When the creature encountered other humans, he was always friendly and he never did anything horrible. But they would look at him and be repulsed, this constant rejection he received throughout his life caused him to do the many terrible things he did, like murdering William. Another thing that Victor did that caused the creature to become

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The creature felt resentment towards Victor because he had destroyed the female creature he was creating for him. According to the novel, the creature says, "My enemy is not impregnable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall destroy him." (Pg. 112). The creature killed William, Victor's brother, to make him and others feel miserably sad. This evidence shows that the creature had killed people just to make Victor and his family suffer and feel as miserable as the creature has one day

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Victor is one of the characters who is greatly affected by revenge. To start, the death of William and Justine started Victor’s hate for the creature. Victor started misunderstanding the creature from that moment. “Could he be the murderer of my brother? He was the murderer!”(60)

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Death was nothing but a recurring theme for Victor Frankenstein until his own. However, it is not the death of him that tells his story, but rather the journey he takes in life. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor created a monster, who brought him pain and torment by taking the lives of his loved ones. These trials pushed Frankenstein to the edge of insanity, but in the long run he emerges successful after a long journey of hardships. Like many heroes, Frankenstein’s expedition follows a uniform sequence of events, known as Joseph Campbell 's hero’s journey, to prove his worthiness.

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The novel Frankenstein brings to light many problems and situations that shed light on the faults of mankind. Cruelty was a huge factor in the novel; throughout Frankenstein is cruel to his body and to his creation. When he first makes the creature he runs from it, leaving the creature to fend for himself; even when reuniting with the creature he continues displays cruelty. The creature, in turn exhibits Victor cruelty right back. Within Frankenstein cruelty can be attributed, often affecting both Victor and the creature; serving as a crucial motivator and revealing their anger, pain, frustration till eventually both die.

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The fact that Victor sees the creature as such a vile thing shows us that Victor doesn’t have any respect whatsoever for it. The creature states that he was ‘dependent on none and related to none’ which also

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In Need of A Hero (A Discussion of Frankenstein's status as a ‘hero’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) Mary Shelley's famous novel Frankenstein raised many questions during its rise in popularity. One of the main questions was where did Mary Shelley get her ideas? Some have debated that she was inspired to write the story because of a real Dr. Frankenstein. However, the more the more accepted explanation for her spooky idea was that her inspiration came from a dream she had after a night of telling ghost stories.

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But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world”(24). Victor shows the strong love of family in his childhood “No human being could have passed a happier childhood than [me]. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence” (Shelley,40), he raised with excellent conditions and with parents who loved their children, but we do not see that Victor gives this love to his creature and ignored him, notwithstanding the fact that the two figures shared many characteristics. As a result of Frankenstein 's darkness and ignorance toward his creature, he refused to accept the monster because of his physical appearance and Frankenstein sees the creature as if he were the monster when the creature

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As he cares for this family, he is the happiest he’s ever been because he believes that they will praise him for helping them and as a reward welcome him into their family. Secondly, when the creature goes to the family’s house he meets the girl’s blind father and as he is talking to the blind man he says, “They are kind-they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.” (106) And the man responds to the creature by saying, “That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?” (106) This means that the couple in who he truly is, a nice person and someone they should call their friend because of how he looks.

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To begin with in Frankenstein, the creature feels a great sense of hate and despicable reaction from both his creator and the outside. While some focus on Victor and his feelings, the creature knows no one cares to see all the pain that was bestowed upon the creature. The creature mentions, “I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.”(111). As the creature lives alone in the world, he feels more and more resentful towards Victor for giving him life. To add onto this, the creature states “When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me.

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Also seen as a monster, the creature finally got the courage to befriend and show his face to the cottagers, the people he trusted, just to be seen as a monster based on his looks and not his character from the Delacy family. “At that instant the cottage door was opened [...] Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? [...] Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung: in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground, and struck me violently with a stick” (Shelley 126).

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The book “Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley has one question on whether or not is Frankenstein a hero for what he did to the monster. Mary Shelley’s book was very controversial to its time by creating a power as strong as nature or god. The Doctor Frankenstein has the power to bring back the dead, is he a hero for destroying it and not abusing it. Is the Doctor a villain for rejecting his creation and forcing it into solitude? Is Frankenstein a hero in the book “Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus”?

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When the creature first awakens, he is welcomed by strange sensations and emotions he doesn’t understand. He states that it took “‘a long time before [he] learned to distinguish between the operations of [his] various senses (Shelley, 90).’” The creature relates to a child there because

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Though the creature's origins are indeed tragic and prove that he is not inherently evil, his actions afterward reveal his descent from innocence to darkness. This descent is not primarily the result of his tragic circumstances, but also a result of

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