The Frankenstein Complex Research Paper

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Victor, and not his creature, is the one that should be labeled as the monster, because he is the one that embodies the characteristics of a monster. A phrase that explains why the creature is usually seen as the monster of this novel is the Frankenstein Complex. This phrase was made to describe judgments, opinions, and discriminations that are grounded in society’s fear of the unknown. Frankenstein’s creation is born innocent, yet Victor, and the society at large, label the creature before it can even form a judgment of itself. In the prophetic words of the seventeenth century Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man…. He turns everything

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