Monster Men Thesis

Everyone wants to be happy. Morals dictate on how one achieves their happiness and what that happiness means to them. Some people give the priority of their happiness over the well being of others and feel no remorse for the actions they have taken to become happy. By hurting others for one’s own gain, they become monsters rather than being civilized men. One doesn’t need to be evil to humans to be considered a monster. The treatment that the monsters receive in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ "The Monster Men", perpetuates the theme that in this story men is the real monsters. There are times that men are obviously showing that they are monsters and will commit terrible atrocities no matter who is hurt. At the beginning, it was quite clear that

At the end, it was revealed that Number 13 was the only one who acted like a man and saved Virginia for the sole reason that he loved her, despite being a monster. In the chapter, The Bull Whip, Professor Maxon comes to his senses and realises what he has created on the island and how they are all abominations. He disowns Number 13 and tells him, “ ‘Out of my sight,’ he shrieked. ‘Out of my sight! Never let me see you again--and to think I would have given my only daughter to a soulless thing like you. Away! Before I go mad and slay you.’ “ (Burroughs 50). This was highly damaging to Number 13, for the Professor was the only one who had shown him true kindness and now Number 13 was all alone in the world with only eleven remaining things that were mildly similar to him. He didn’t ask to be made this way, but luckily for him, he was able to move past this and act more like a man than most of the men in the story. Number 13 wasn't the only monster to be made by men. Frankenstein’s Monster was also the creation of men and could have been able to act like a normal human being if he was taught well like Number 13 was before he disowned. “Instead it was the extreme misconceptions of humans, resulting in extreme isolation of the creature, that caused him to become a monster.” (“Who’s The Real Monster?” par. 1). By being taught beforehand Number 13 was able to escape the terrible fate that befell Frankenstein’s Monster and was able to save and protect Virginia. There are times that monsters aren’t asked to be made and most of the time it's man’s fault they