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The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The Monster in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley dealt with a lot of emotions, from simply wanting to be accepted to killing a person. Everybody has needs and wants, that have to be met to achieve happiness and serenity. There comes a time when you have worked and waited so hard for this happiness to come and it does not come, you try to take it by force. The Monster attempted to take his, by force. In this book we see a major theme, that people want to be happy, that the pursuit of happiness and actually obtaining it is entitled to everyone. The Monster wants to feel accepted and loved, he wants to be accepted how a regular human would and treated equally in society. He fears that he will be treated badly because of his monstrous appearance, so in an attempt to counter people treating him …show more content…

Man could not be man without having a woman to continue the life of a man. So man would pointless without woman. The Monster had no one to go through life with so just like God did for Adam, he wants Victor to do for him, the Monster says,”You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my be- ing. is you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede (Shelley 174).” The Monster was looking for a mate to go through life with because he did not believe that he could ever be accepted by the world. The Monster asked Victor (His creator) to make him a wife so he could be with and leave to a desolate area in the mountains. This is needed by the Monster so he could obtain his happiness that he searches for. Victor will not create the Monster’s needed mate, so the Monster goes on a even more rampage and kills the people that Victor loves. This ties into the Monsters pursuit of happiness and him not obtaining it so he does whatever he can to try and get it, even if it means hurting

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