Monstrosity In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Monstrosity is a deceiving word that can cause society to act in a particular way blinding them from looking at the inner traits and rather focus on the physical traits. A person 's personality has now no longer defined whom they are but instead, their physical appearance has. For quite some time society have judged those who are any different and don’t meet the standard of normality and as a result, people tend to lash out of anger, leading many people to accept the fact that mankind is nothing but corrupted and evil. One of these people being Mary Shelley 's who shared her views on mankind in her novel Frankenstein, as she presents a creature that had been viewed as an abomination to society for its appearance and wrongdoings. However, these

After leaving Victor 's laboratory and seeking shelter in a forest. Food sadly becomes scarce and on his way to finding a new area to take shelter. He comes across a village and while being deprived by food he quickly takes notice of the food that had been placed at one of the windows. However, before he even places his foot one of the children had immediately taken notice of his appearance and started to scream alerting all the villagers in the village. Which resulted in many of them attacking him with brutal weapons after taking a glance at him, “ The vegetables in the garden, the milk, and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite. One of the best of these I entered, but I hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons…( Shelley 103). The villagers are blinded by the creatures physical appearance that they do not acknowledge that the creature had not conducted any harmful actions towards them. Upon viewing his appearance they quickly regarded him as a monster that represents nothing but evil. In fact, the creature faces the same exact experience with the De Lacey family.

As his own creator had abandoned him and left him to face the reality of what society brings, he wanted to fit in and be loved and cared for but was instead was faced with ruthless attacks, and became a victim of abuse for his hideous features. Society no longer defines whom a person is by their internal traits, but instead their external features. Every minute and every second there someone out there in the world being judged for not meeting society standards and are treated as trash just like the creature had been treated and it, unfortunately, comes to a breaking point where people just act out. If physical traits were not an important factor in society would society act any differently towards the creature would it have prevented what the creature had