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Monster In Frankenstein

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Encompassed in a thick ice circle in what is believed to be the middle of the ocean we meet a man on a boat named captain Walton. However this is not who the novel is focused on, but the giant figure that the man sight’s whilst entrapped in the ice is. The eight-foot tall man riding his sled being pulled by sled dogs is a wretched “monster” created by Victor Frankenstein. In the novel the antagonist is created by doctor Frankenstein as an experiment to reanimate or animate objects. In this case the monster is made out of, sewn together flesh, joined together bones, and everything else that comes with the whole human body experience except it was all obtained from different deceased people. Doctor Frankenstein describes the monster as being …show more content…

Victor becomes ill for winter and his friend clerval treats him for the winter and when he overcomes his illness he receives a letter stating that his younger brother had been murdered. Victor makes his way back to his hometown and when he arrives he and the monster have their second encounter. The moment that frankenstein notices the monster he immediately knows that he is the one that murdered his brother and that the woman accused (Justine) is innocent. During the trials Victor is unable to prove or say that the monster is the true culprit of this crime and this leads to justine being put to death. During the biggest encounter with the monster Victor has a huge psychological barrier in his mind and will not hear out anything the monster says and also cannot stand the monsters grotesque, horrid sight. However this is where we see a completely different side of the monster other than what we have heard from Frankenstein. To make Frankenstein listen, the monster covers his eyes so that frankenstein will listen to his side of the story. A completely different side of the monster can be read about and it is truly shocking. The monster …show more content…

One of the last things that our monster does is kill everyone that Victor loves which leaves him alone. He chases the monster but only ends up going farther and further north. This is the point where the captain sees him on the boat and brings him aboard. While on this boat Victor Frankenstein passes away. The monster appears to take away his body and burn himself as a form of punishment since he was not, and did not want to be a monster but a good hearted

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• While Frankenstein was searching the halls of the inn, Elizabeth goes into the room. Frankenstein hears a shriek and runs in to find Elizabeth brutally murdered by the creature. • Pg. 186 “She was there, lifeless, inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging don and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair…” • Victor sees him out the window and draws out his pistol and shoots → misses → people run after the creature • Frankenstein returns home to tell his father the news → he was shocked with grief and dies a few days later. Pg.

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Today if someone saw it from the outside they would say the monster is the creature, not Frankenstein because of its appearance. People familiarize themselves with stereotypes that all monsters are scary and the want to harm others but it's really the inside of them their motives and desires. “Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded

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When Victor creates the creature he also abandons it. Once Frankenstein’s creature begins to murder off his family thus he begins’ to realize the importance of family. Caroline’s death contributes to Victor’s isolated nature.

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Once the monster kills Frankenstein's family members, it creates an extremely negative impact on Victor's life that it is hard for him to be happy in the world. When Clerval dies, for instance, we see that Victor becomes mentally and physically ill almost to the point of death, just because he considered Clerval as part of his

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After running away from Victor, he finds a family and steals their food until he realizes they are poor. After finding out they were poor he does chores for the family such as get them food and wood. In the process of doing chores, he realises how ugly he is when he sees his reflection in the pond and that is when the true anger grew for Victor but he also became very sad. Frankenstein looks for Victor, and as he walks through the woods, he sees a little girl drowning and saves her.

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The Monster commits several violent actions. After Victor abandons him, he tries to assemble some resemblance of a life by traveling and learning about society, something that Victor failed to teach him. While on his travels, he takes his first casualty. “Frankenstein! You belong to my sworn enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge;

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Victor works in secret and spends years isolating himself from his family. Finally on a dark, stormy night, his work is complete. As soon as the creature opens his eyes, Frankenstein is aghast at what he has created, rejecting his creation he runs off into the night. When Frankenstein returns in the morning, the creature is

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Frankenstein is the most well-known characters in horror literature. Mary Shelley's 1818 novel has intrigued readers for more than 200 years. Although it is not entirely true, the phrase "Frankenstein's monster" is widely used to describe the creature. Victor Frankenstein is actually the story's true monster. This article will look at the elements that contributed to Frankenstein becoming a monster rather than concentrating on his creation.

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Victor falls ill with anxiety, and as a result of Victor’s neglect the monster begins to destroy his life. Even when the monster confronts Frankenstein, threatening that he “will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of [Frankenstein’s] remaining friends, 102" Victor does not acknowledge the problem he has caused, the literal embodiment of his anxiety. He does not attempt to confront the monster head on or alleviate his loneliness, both a form of acknowledgement and thus a healthy way to respond to his fears. Instead, he once again pretends the monster doesn’t exist which only further enrages and empowers him. Once again, this mirrors the fact that when fears and anxiety go undealt with they will only grow and confirms that the monster is the embodiment of this

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The monster is spurned by society because of his horrific appearance, his body, alone and hated, unfit for the company of strangers, just as Frankenstein fears he is. He is miserable which makes the hatred grow, as he says, “all men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!” In fact, this wretchedness and enforced isolation is the monster’s main character trait, parallel to the isolation being Frankenstein’s biggest fear. Now that Victor is in college, he does not have his family to fall back upon for affection.

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Thinking about the deal with his family in mind, Victor begins his work on the second monster. The first monster made Victor suffer terribly and threatened his family; trying to scare Victor for not creating his mate, the monster angrily said to Frankenstein, “I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you” (162). While looking back upon his unfinished work, Victor remembers “the miserable monster whom I had created,” (152). “With the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man,” (142) promises the monster to Victor upon completion of his mate. Victor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world.

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Beginning with Victor abandoning the creature at birth, the series of revenge and hatred-filled events begin to occur as both attempt to find justice and retribution. The creature stole the lives of everyone beloved by Victor, and Victor stole the monster’s chance at happiness by abandoning him. As the characters continuously harm each other, their isolation increases as well as their sanity. In the end, numerous family members perish, Victor Frankenstein dies of physical exhaustion, and the creature conveys his desire to

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They are all alone and rely on science, but they forget the power of imagination. Victor and Walton are both going mad from the arctic and from the obsession with science and discovery. They become unreliable, only providing one side of the story. The monster adds his narrative allowing for more to be seen, but this is not the same side. Walton and Victor tell stories from how they see the outside, but the monster shows what is going on in their minds.

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Whereas the real monster throughout the story is no other than Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein displays many of the characteristics any monster would have. He was cruel and manipulative in order to become and valued like God. However, the odds were not in his favor after rejecting the monster the minute he came to life, "A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly

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Victor Frankenstein has since destroyed his female creation of the Monster due to his fear that she and the Monster would procreate, lost the life of Elizabeth who he had just married hours before she was murdered, and threw his life away to pursue the Monster in a chase that led him to the North seeking for revenge against all that the Monster has cost him. Victor, alone and near death, is then discovered wandering through the snow and ice by a passing ship somewhere in the Arctic. The crew rescues Victor and brings him aboard the ship where he meets captain Walden. It is upon this ship and in the presence of Walden that Victor says his very last words. After Victor’s death, a mysterious figure takes form from the darkness of the room in which Victor’s corpse inhabits and out slinks the Monster.

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