Superficial Judgement Throughout history, several groups of people have been judged and discriminated based on race, ethnicity, or gender. Even today, prejudice is alive and well as many groups continue to be placed at a disadvantage in terms of opportunity or even by being massively excluded from society. Not often has total exclusion and isolationism been a problem for humans as everybody is of some use and is bearable to some extent. While the people who do the discriminating have their own narrow-minded justification for doing so, those on the other end of the issue almost never fit the horrible prejudices that the discriminators presume. In her gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portrays a perspective through an unsightly and betrayed …show more content…
However, when the monster’s perspective is portrayed in the novel, it reminds us of how superficiality guides us to false conclusions. Shelley portrays the creation’s desire to belong to argue against the prejudice set before him: “Now is the time!--save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not you desert me in the hour of trial!” (Shelley 120). This ultimate desire for the monster to belong serves as a justification for his benevolence which contradicts the false conclusions many people thought of him. The author goes on to advance her claim by revealing the creation’s desire for a companion: “Sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator. But where was mine?” (Shelley 101). The way Shelley discloses the true benevolence and emotions of the creature captures the perspective of the creation which contradicts to the prejudices set by his creator who despises him and thinks he means harm, solely basing his presumption on the creation’s