The Influence Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

What defines a monster? Is it one’s appearance or one’s actions? In today’s society, a monster is often considered evil or inhumane. In Frankenstein, the creation that Victor Frankenstein makes is called the monster, but throughout the book we are shown the compassion of the creature and the monster-like qualities in Frankenstein. The creature with “his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips” (Shelley 35) caused people to fear and judge him only off of appearance, never getting to know the true morals of him. Victor Frankenstein can not only be labeled a monster, but also a sociopath. Being a sociopath does not always mean being a monster, but in today’s society the two terms often go hand in hand with one another. According to the American Psychiatric Association there are seven diagnostic criteria that categorize a sociopath. Included in those seven are three major ones that Victor Frankenstein shows throughout the novel: extreme antisocial attitude and behavior, pattern of irresponsibly, and lack of remorse for actions

Many years have passed since the novel “Frankenstein” was published for the common readers, yet it gave a huge impact in the society’s point of views and beliefs about what kind of monster Victor Frankenstein created. Even in present day, the novel has influenced, in many ways, how to shape the opinions of the society. Although, it has many argumentatives elements, they are all based on how the monster develops in the story from a victim to a villain.

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Personal tragedies and the way people are raised from the beginning effect what kind of person they become. Frankenstein is a gothic fiction tragedy written by Mary Shelley in 1818. Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who dedicated his life to creating a new species. Victor does achieve this dream of his. However, Victor creates what he thinks is an evil monster. The monster is the most evolved character because he develops humanlike emotions, gains valuable knowledge, and revengeful to those around him.

Humans are social beings and as such we crave love, affection, and acceptance. These emotions are readily and traditionally given in a family. Family plays an instrumental role in the growth of a person and has an important impact on their social well being and mental development. In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, we can see just how influential family is as family is one of the important themes in this novel. The cottage scene is an important scene in the novel as it demonstrates just how important family is to a person by documenting the creature and his examination of the De Lacey family; which is where he learned about society and just what family truly means.

Stephen King once said,” Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win”. In Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein creates a monster who he despises and who later kills his youngest brother, his best friend, and his wife. He indirectly causes the deaths of Frankenstein’s father and servant Justine. Though it is suggested the monster is not real and Victor Frankenstein himself is to blame for these deaths. Did Frankenstein really create a monster or is the monster the darkness in his heart? Victor Frankenstein never made a monster who came to life and tried to destroy him but rather the darkness inside Frankenstein, which was always there took over and destroyed all he held dear.

The definition of success often varies from person to person. To Victor Frankenstein, his version of success entails to earning widespread recognition and praise from achieving something that no one else prior has accomplished; the act of bestowing life into an inanimate object. Mary Shelley’s classic story of Frankenstein commendably demonstrates the idea that, in trying to rise above others, those who dream of glory can easily turn a blind eye to the consequences. This is seen in Frankenstein’s obsession with completing his initial goal, his unpreparedness in dealing with the monster, and in his inability to take responsibility for the consequences afterwards.

In the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, demonstrates how nobody likes to feel alone, even hideous creatures like the one Victor Frankenstein created. Throughout the novel, the creature is trying to beloved by anybody that will love him, since Victor abundance him right after he creates him. When the creature goes away, he realizes how lonely and scared he is. During the moments he spent being alone, and observing the cottagers he realizes how he wants somebody to love him in the same way he will love them. The creature demands Frankenstein to make him a mate and at the end Frankenstein destroys the second creature. Leaving the first creation with nobody and having him feel the loneliness once again.

Mary Shelley wrote her gothic novel after a terrifying nightmare in her home at Lake Geneva. In her Novel, Walton introduces Victor Frankenstein story and provides background through a series of letters to his sister. Victor has a joyful childhood with his friend Henry and his adopted sister Elisabeth. However the situation soon turns sour after the death of his mother from scarlet fever. Following the death of his mother Victor father, Alphonse sends him to university in England. Victor soon becomes interested in science and biology, specifically the creation of life. His studies lead Victor to conduct a creation experiment. After months of work victor is disgusted by the creation of his monster and soon avoids the monster due to his guilt. A short time

While overshadowed by her husband she thrived and her writing was great but without him being there they shriveled up and disappeared. The tension between Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley improved her writing causing her to thrive. Being under his shadow allowed her to struggle to come into the light and work for it. Carson writes, “Mary Shelley betrayed in a number of letters a considerable struggle as she wavered between self-assertion and self-denial as the guardian of Percy Shelley's works and will” (Carson 4). Once Shelley finds herself she retreats from her former opinions based on her mother and husband, but traces still remain throughout her novels. She is trying to deny what is going on in reality through the artistic creation of life through her novel.

When one is born, they have no experiences, no lessons learned, and no opinions or prejudice. Their slate is clean, emulating the idea of tabula rasa. In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, a Monster was brought into the world to experience nothing but hate and fear. The Monster was rejected by society and cast into the world alone. Victor Frankenstein was the creator of this creature but did little to assist the creatures acclimation to society. He should have assisted the beast in becoming welcomed into the world, but instead he pushed the Monster away from learning social graces to fit in. If done differently, the Monster should have opened doors in the scientific world and helped people learn a lot about life itself. The differences that could have been put into place on this creature's life would include showing love towards him, letting people know who he

In the first four chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein is obsessed with creating this creature made out of human body parts, and bringing it to life. With his obsession came many positive and negative factors. He succeeded in bringing his creation to life, but this creation was more of a monster than Frankenstein had envisioned. Frankenstein was automatically scared of his creation, as he fell asleep soon after bringing the creature to life, and woke up to find the creature standing over him and staring directly at him.

The sizzling, yet controversial novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley invites the reader into a science lab to study the unknown, which goes against the norm of society. Studying the unknown has the opportunity to create unpredictable and irreversible outcomes, along with internal conflicts with morals and ethics. Based on evidence proven in the novel, scientists should not study the unknown due to foreseeable actions and results.

Victor Frankenstein goes all throughout the book to busy doing things for him and no one else as if he had the power of God to choose all the right things for him but wrong for other people. God in a lot of religions acts as someone who will be by your side and always with you but Frankenstein creates Creature and then abandons him and never worries about him. Creature gets judged so frequently and feels so unwanted that it takes a blind man to actually show Creature what love is. Also Victor could create Creature but refuses to create a companion for Creature and why does he have the right to choose to create life or not? Frankenstein has the chance to save a few lives if he would have told the truth but he does not and that shows why he fails at portraying a good form of God. Victor will fail at trying to act like God and it will all come back to him.

So the process of the monster how frankenstein created the monster. So he was said that he has possessed the bestowing animation yet he frame the reception of it. “it's intricacies of fibers, muscles, and veins still remained a work inconceivable difficulty and labour” (Shelley 35). So the way that frankenstein explain his creation with beautie, was that “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his feature as his beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! HIs yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes,that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips”. (Shelley 35) So when created the monster he was talking about how ugly and the body freaked him out how the he put them together saying “He was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even dante could not have conceived.”(Shelley 35) So frankenstein has been working on the creation of the monster for two years and the sole purpose of it was infusing life into an inanimate body.