Focusing on Shelley's account of the creature through the lens of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality indicates that man is, by nature good, and that it is society that turns him into an evil monster. ... (Discourse101) Shelley's concurrence is clearly represented through her illustration of the monster after he escapes Victor's apartment. ... The monster's compassion and love for the family is illustrated with these gestures. ... Thus, the creature truly becomes the monster that society made him out to be from the start. ... Although the being that Frankenstein cr...

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However, other scholars such as Andy Orchard disagree with this claim, and believe that there is "something deeply human about the 'monsters'". While Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon are indeed portrayed as evil and violent foes, there are parts within Beowulf that can also lead a reader to believe that the "monsters" may not be so monstrous after all. This ultimately evokes traces of sympathy in the reader for the plight of these "monster" figures, and blurs the fine line between good and evil within the poem The first opponent Beowulf ...

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Within the various plays that William Shakespeare wrote throughout his life, there are numerous characters that go through various trials and tribulations. Some of these hardships that these characters go through involve tough decision making that sometimes lead them down treacherous paths that resu...

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