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Victor The Monster In Frankenstein

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According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a monster is a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.In, Frankenstein, a book by Mary Shelley, a creature is brought to life by a man named Victor. Because Victor used dead body parts to create the Creature, he of course is not the most gorgeous person that was created and he looks a little mangled. When the monster is brought to life, Victor acts very cruelly to the Creature because of his deformed face. The rest of the story is based how the Creature murdered most of Victor’s family because of how cruel Victor was to him. Victor is a bigger monster than the Creature because he is always victimizes himself in situations with the Creature, when truly he hasn’t …show more content…

The Creature is a very good person on the inside and wants to just fit in. He hated him right away no matter what the Creature was like on the inside, even though the Creature gave Victor many opportunities to get to know him.In the beginning, the Creature went into the woods after Victor neglected him and at the time he was still developing his skills, like talking and reading. He finds a family in the woods and starts to do little things for the family to help them out. He was collecting wood for the family and moving snow from the roads for them. When the Creature was trying to tell his story to Victor, he said, “The trait of kindness moved me sensibly. 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 cottage, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighbouring wood” (102).This shows that the Creature isn’t actually a monster. He decides to stop stealing when he realized how important the food was to others. He is not selfish and thinks more of others than himself. He does not want to hurt anyone for no reason.At this point in the story, the Creature is becoming lonely because everyone has rejected him because of his looks. He asks Victor to create a second creature for him to be friends with. Loneliness is very typical for a normal human, but Victor doesn’t see it happening. He starts to think negatively and think of all of the things that could possibly go wrong. He says that they could join together and become an even larger threat. But, he doesn’t even visit the fact that it could help the Creature’s mental health and prevent a lot of the deaths of his close family and friends. Victor says, “She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight, for its own

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