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Torture As Depicted In John Steinbeck's 'Begone'

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“You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse”. The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers, and, as he said this, I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me. “I do refuse it,” I replied; “and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never …show more content…

Adam trie to make Victor understand that he is miserable and bitter due to the fact that he is alone, isolated, and nobody wants him, because of his physical appearance. Adam also made him understand why he did the things he did by inflicting the same pain to Victor (102), “I am malicious because I am miserable; am I not shunned by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph”. Adam, argued with Victor in a way where he used logical reasoning by trying not to threaten Victor despite of Victor’s apathetic attitude towards the monster’s situation (102). Adam also exhibit pain and grief in his used of words by admitting that he is malicious and in need of companion to have someone share sympathies necessary for his being (101). He also used imagery by making Victor realized that there is no difference between killing a human being and dismembering him to be able to dispatch him, because for Adam it is no difference despite of how he was created and who created him because he has a life within him. However, Victor who created Adam and the only one who can make a companion for him rejected his request because of what the miserable monster had done to him and his family by murdering William (46-47), Elizabeth on the day of their

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