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My Vices In Frankenstein

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The creature holds the Romantic philosophy that beings are created to be innately good and that suffering and misfortune create vices within us. He holds out further hope that a better circumstance can set him right again. He explains, “My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal” (159). He metaphorically refers to his vices as children to show they are the direct result of loneliness. While his sins include violent anger inducing him to set a cottage on fire, strangle a little child, and frame a young woman, he argues that he can become good again if he is allowed meaningful fellowship. This philosophy is the creature’s primary argument for why Frankenstein
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