The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The Novel that has been read during this class was the one called Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. At the start, it is explained that the captain is on a mission to the North Pole. On this voyage he comes across a man named Victor Frankenstein, a man so weak that he was almost at the brink of death. Victor then goes on to explain the journey he has come on, to end his “monstrous” creation. As the novel unravels, it becomes clear cut that the monster is at once more intellectual and more emotionally attached to things than that of Victor Frankenstein, his creator. This nameless being, the monster, shows true signs of being more lovable, hateful and have more to be pitied and feared. When the word “monster” is heard, people usually come to a quick

To be human, one must be able to love. The monsters act of love is seen during the time that he spent alongside the cottagers. For instance, when the monster’s first encounters the cottagers, he takes advantage of them by using their food supply for himself. But as his stay prolongs, he begins watch them and gets to know them and he has a change in heart, “I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained…”(114). With this act the monster demonstrates that deep inside he really does have a good, kind, and carrying heart. This act also symbolizes the good intentions he has and that he thought about the consequences his actions would have created if he had continued on the path he had first started on. Unlike his maker, who did not think twice about the consequences that would occur even after he had created this monstrous creation in the

Like any human, the monster is put down and demoralized causing him to begin to walk down the path of hatred and anger against those who reject him. In this case, after the cottagers had so intently chased the monster away, there were emotions that came over him that he wasn’t used to, “despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and despair”(137). The monster did not know how to control his reactions to the horrendous things that happened to him. He demonstrates that he does have the human characteristic to hate and when he does he becomes very mean. When filled with hatred, there was no way in telling what he will do and it could even end up in something devastating. Another occurrence of this was his reaction towards Frankenstein after the destruction of the second creation that was going to be his wife; “You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains- revenge, hence forth dearer than light or food.” (173). The hatred that had been created towards Victor had turned into revenge and had also become stronger. He was able to take control of it and use it for an advantage to create a unique kind of power over Victor, demonstrating the cunning characteristic of being a human, to take advantage of all the opportunities that are presented in his