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Violence In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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When the monster rescued the little girl from the water the man with her immediately took it as an act of violence because of his scary appearance. He immediately darted towards the monster and took the girl from his arms, fled into the woods, took a gun and fired it at him. The man did not understand that the monster was saving her. At another point in the novel, the monster attempts to become friends with a boy. The boy responded with, "monster! ugly wretch! You wish to eat me, and tear me to pieces--You are an ogre" (Shelley 123). Small incidents continue to happen to the monster all throughout the novel slowly turning him to hate mankind. If Frankenstein were to have accepted the monster and shown him love the monster would not have become
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