In modern era, many continue to push forth the ideal that everyone deserves basic human rights, regardless of their physical appearance or their origins. The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) had unordinary origins which influenced his character and relationships he developed with others. In his case, the creature’s physical deformities caused him to initially be rejected by his creator, Victor Frankenstein, and other people he encountered who would only see a surface unpleasant to the eye. As the story unfolds, Shelley develops the timeless message that everyone deserves to satisfy the yearning necessity for companionship and happiness, despite one’s beginnings in the world, lest they risk losing their humanity. Frankenstein, the creature, demonstrates on several occasions his ability to feel in the same way as humans and other living beings can feel. Frankenstein’s …show more content…
Unlike a parent to a child, the doctor abandons Frankenstein, an equivalent of his child, which foretells Frankenstein's connections towards all human life. New to the world and alone to discover it for what it is, with only intuition and humane desires to navigate him, Frankenstein encounters a cottage family in the woods. As time progresses, Frankenstein observes the family’s struggles derived from their poverty, for example, at times, the young cottagers would deprive themselves of meals and endure the pain of hunger in order to ensure that their old father would not go hungry (Shelley 78). Frankenstein recalls, “This trait of kindness moved me sensibly” (Shelley 78). As Frankenstein observes the family members interact with