Revenge In Frankenstein Argumentative Essay

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Revenge
Revenge can be a very confusing subject. Revenge originates from hatred or envy. Later, that hatred and envy results in revenge. Revenge can be a wife burning the clothes of a cheating husband, or going out spending outrageous amounts on his credit card. Revenge can be T-Ping your teacher's house for giving you an F on an assignment. Revenge can be grounding your kid for throwing a temper tantrum in a grocery store. There are several extents of Revenge, but it all comes back to where it originates from. Revenge is many things… Revenge is destructive, it can often misguide one into doing things one typically would not do. Although revenge is acceptable in society, it is a misguided reason because it destroys lives and causes political deadlock.
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Scientists in this time period were so fascinated with the idea of bringing the dead back to life, and Victor has done such thing. Victor thought abandoning the monster was best, without realizing what the monster is capable of. By abandoning the monster, many consequences came along with it. The monster seeks revenge by causing the death of everyone Victor loves, including William, Justine, Henry, Alphonse and Elizabeth. The monster didn’t kill them all directly, but still caused the death. The monster says "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.” (Monster, p. 138). Although this monster is portrayed as some terrible creature in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, you can not help but feel sympathy for him, because the monster had a reason for everything that he