It is true that we shall be monsters but on that account we shall be attached to one another. ... Had Victor created the mate, the monster would no longer be lonely or depressed. ... The monster is just looking for someone that he would be able to converse with. ... The way that Victor treated his monster right from the outset was abysmal. ... These rejections caused the monster to suffer a great deal and Victor should feel guilty. ...

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Victor Frankenstein and his monster are alike. ... Frankenstein and the monster are also similar in that they are isolated and outcasts of society. ... Therefore Victor Frankenstein seems less human than the monster; he displays this by deserting the monster, declining to visit his family for two years and be declining to save Justine. ... A true monster would, by definition, have no emotions or remorse, while Frankenstein's creation has a very natural, human desire to be loved and accepted, "Once [the creature] falsely hoped to meet with beings, who, pardoning [his] outward form, w...

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In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, mankind constantly rejects her monster. ... The night of his creation the Monster wonders into the woods to find shelter. ... William was horrified by the physical appearance of the Monster and began to scream, "Hideous monster! ... William's reaction frightened the Monster and the Monster reacted the only way he knew how. ... Victor rejected the request of the Monster for a mate as well as rejected the Monster as a living being. ...

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The monster merely sought to live as the rest of humanity did. ... The monster journeys all over the world to hide from society. ... As the captain listens to the monster's story he begins to understand the monster's plight. He accepts the monster as a reluctant, yet devoted servant to his master. ... When the monster read Plutarch's Lives the monster learned about models of human conduct; the monster states, "Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages". ...

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This shows that he creates the monster out of corpses, just as God creates Satan. ... Victor rejects the monster, similar to God's disgust with Satan's pride. ... The monster relates to Satan, Adam, and Eve. ... Resembling the monster, hence he wants a companion, Eve. Moreover, the monster is much more like Satan, then he is like Adam. ...

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Only difference, one man, the other monster. ... Right after the monster came to life the differences between them began. ... On the other hand the monster seemed happy to see his creator. ... (Shelley 35), showed the monster acknowledgement of his creator. ... The monster looked at Frankenstein as a "slave". ...

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The tale of Frankenstein's journey seems to be easily concluded if Victor were to only kill the monster or vice versa. While the monster doesn't kill Victor because he is his creator, and in that sense, his father Victor appears to hate his monster for just being his creation. ... But once the monster learns Victor will not make a mate for him he continues tormenting his life. Although Victor has so many reasons to detest his monster he still hesitates killing his monster and owning his decisions. ... Victor allows his pursuit of knowledge to cloud his judgment and keeps his monster...

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The most important religious comparison in Frankenstein, are the outstanding similarities between Victor as God and the monster as Lucifer. ... However, as time went on, the monsters physical and mental capabilities gave him advantages over Victor and soon enough, he had more power than Victor. The power that the monster retained over Victor wasn't only physical though. During the monsters' fits of anger and rage, his murders emotionally distressed Victor. ... By the monster(evil) overtaking its creator(good), in a way it forecasts the overtaking of good by evil. ...

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Is it true that the monster is treacherous? ... Walton meets the monster; the monster sorrowful at Victor's death. The monster always found painful the doing of evil, has been miserable and remorseful. Monster's tragic flaw is his anger. ... Eight feet tall and hideously ugly, the monster is rejected by society. ...

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If he was thinking more clearly, he would have noticed monster's hideousness. Another physical aspect of the monster, which shows a fault in Frankenstein, is its immense size. ... It is due to this abandonment that the monster develops the murderous tendencies displayed later in the novel. ... The creature's ultimate plea for companionship comes when he requests that Frankenstein creates another monster to be his mate, and that the two monsters would live in isolation. ... The monster pronounces his threat on Elizabeth's life, after Frankenstein has done "the cruelest act of al...

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He then begins to experiment with bodies and electricity and in doing so creates a monster! ... The monster kills Victor's brother, friend and bride. Whereas Victor vows revenge to destroy the monster that he created. ... It is during this mission that Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been in pursuit of the monster across the ice and cold of the north. ... Man will never be able to come close to, and it is God whom Victor has insulted with the creation of his monster. ...

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The creation of a monster like this back in the 17th century via such un-natural means would not have so much been a myth, but rather an entertaining, gothic, fictional, totally un-true, and impossible story. ... However the monster states, "you are my creator, but I am your master, obey!" ... This relates to Frankenstein in the way that the monster wanted Victor to create a partner for him so that he was not so lonely. Frankenstein agreed to make the second monster, but soon remembered the story of Adam and Eve, and remembered the fact that it was because of God's second creation that si...

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Today's audience would feel initially more intrigued then anything on the monsters introduction. The monster's rejection would have created an automatic sympathy for the monster and the emotional events of the creature longing for acceptance and companionship would have only justified the audience's feelings of sympathy, not created them. ... While developing different views of the monster from his looks and then strictly from his personality, Shelley digs deep into the topic of resistance and cultural stereotypes. ... ""Let me go," he cried; "monster! ... You wish to eat me an...

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Frankenstein and the monster are also similar in that they are isolated and outcasts of society. ... A true monster would, by definition, have no emotions or remorse, while Frankenstein's creation has a very natural, human desire to be loved and accepted, "Once the monster falsely hoped to meet with beings, who, pardoning his outward form, would love him for the excellent qualities which he was capable of bringing forth" (154). ... At first I stared back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the...

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Victor abhorred his creation, turned his back on the monster, but the creature did not disappear. ... The monster was alone and would never be able to produce more of his kind. ... Victor creates the monster through science, but he realizes the consequences though experience. ...

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The time Shelley wrote Frankenstein a lot of scientific experiments were being made into trying to bring mammals back alive and the social scene she was in there was a lot of free love, which could and did end with unwanted children. This could have affected Shelley into writing about these types of...

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