Would you hurt or abandon a baby? In the fictional novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley the main character Victor Frankenstein believes that he can bring life to a body he makes from human parts. He does successfully create this creature but ends up being terrified and disgusted by it so he runs and abandons it. The creature then departs in solitude and later sets out for revenge against Victor for abandoning him. Shelley conveys the creature as a child learning about life using several different techniques in order for the audience to feel sympathy towards it. Imagery, dialogue, and motifs are some of the techniques that Shelley used to create this image of the creature. Notably, imagery is used for many things but in this …show more content…
One of the overall motifs in the novel is loneliness. This idea is repeated many times but has a major effect on the creature as it is this loneliness that drives him to commit the crimes that he makes. This idea of loneliness being one of the worst things possible is also seen when the creature does everything possible to make sure that Victor ends up alone and miserable the way that he had for so many years. This idea conveys the impression that the creature is just a child because it shows its vulnerability and expresses the desire that creature has which is to not be alone anymore. When the creature goes and spends some time watching a family he feels less lonely and this makes him feel happy like he says, “Happy, happy earth! fit habitation for gods, which, so short a time before, was bleak, damp, and unwholesome. My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.” (Shelley 103). He like a child expresses his happiness and begins to the see a view of the world that he is barely beginning to