Some people find it crazy to feel sympathetic for someone they do not know, let alone someone who is not human. Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley is about Victor Frankenstein, a young student studying science who creates a creature from a science experiment. The Creature is given life and eventually becomes responsible for the death of a few characters, but rather receive sympathy for his actions because he’s experienced a bad childhood, being all alone and only having the desire to be accepted.
Firstly, the Creature has a bad childhood, and the main cause for that is Victor abandoning him. In the awakening of the Creature, Frankenstein says “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream had vanished. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room...”
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The Creature being abandoned, having to survive and be all alone makes him want to be accepted after spending his life so far alone and unwanted. The Creature thinks maybe if he just tries hard enough, maybe if he can learn their language, learn to act like a human, people can overlook all the differences. This is the extent that the Creature goes to for his desire to be accepted. It is similar what humans do to fit in, and this is what the Creature does to be accepted. He learns things about them and he tries to execute this by attempting to get the cottagers to accept him yet it turns into a fail. The Creature is out in the cold, unwanted and unaccepted because he is different. It is completely unreasonable to feel sympathetic for the Creature for all of his hard work to be