Victor calls the monster malicious, even though he is the one who has not shown the Creature any love nor compassion. ... Victor also displays an abnormal desire for power and knowledge, which coincides with the definition of a monster. ... Victor enacts selfish behavior that adds to his image as the monster of the book. ... As said by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." Due to his constant battles and conflicts with the Creature, the supposed monster due to his fearful appearance, Victor quickly turns into...

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This contrasts well with Shelly's description of a monster. ... In chapter 3, the monster proves that by saying, "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. ... However, in the novel, the monster protects a youngster from sinking. ... This demonstrates that the monster's hatred is also a creation of communal prejudice and rigidity. ... Since Frankenstein has monsters, it is more evident in kids' movies. ...

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Griffith points out the fact that Frankenstein displays these ideas of the Romantic era through Victor Frankenstein and through the monster, which at times he believes are the same person. Because according to Freudian readings the monster is what is internally inside Frankenstein only that the monster acts upon what he feels, which is basically the idea of the dismay over the human capacity to corrupt our natural goodness as well as the primacy of feelings. ... "Since Vicor's story is a story of creation, murder, investigation, and pursuit, Frankenstein is ultimately a boook about our ...

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The reader understands that before the monster was brought to life Victor saw the experiment as an important scientific discovery but once the monster awakened he says "how can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe". ... When the monster runs away after being abandoned by its creator, Victor naively believes that things will start to get better, even though the monster is still out there as he says "my gloom disappeared" Victor believed that as long as he can ignore the monster and block out his existence things will start to get better. This shows naivety because from...

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After many months collecting pieces of bone, muscle, and flesh from cadavers, Frankenstein sews each piece together forming a hideous monster. ... The events which follow the creation of Frankenstein's monster, as well as aspects of Frankenstein's early life and the tribulations his monster endures, are all elements author Shelley experienced. ... Frankenstein's monster is forced into a life of alienation, though he attempts several times to affiliate himself with humans. ... Though the monster is eloquent, mannered, caring, and intelligent, he is continuously rejected by societ...

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In this quote, you start to get a feel for what Victor must have been thinking when he decided to create the monster. ... However, the idea still lies in his head of what could happen to the monster or anyone else. Finally, Victor believes that the only way of achieving full immortality is the monster's acceptance. ... "(Sha 23) Sha believes that Victor's reasoning for creating the monster is for his own satisfaction. ... Not only does his act become selfish, but so does his feelings towards the monster when he gives it life. ...

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Shelley called her readers to pinpoint connections between two great figures such as Victor Frankenstein's monster and the mythological Titan God Prometheus. ... In chapter five Victor recalls the night he gave his monster life by the spark of electricity. ... Often times, when sculpting with clay, it's hard to convey human emotions, the same goes for Victor's monster. Although Victor has provided his creation with human-like qualities and features because he was not conceived but created, the monster will never appropriately convey human emotion henceforth mimicking one of the ...

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In the novel the reader's sympathy shifts for the monster when he confronts Victor with a demand for reasons for his abandonment and hatred. ... Mary Shelley does not leave the monster's murderous nature to a simple error in brain selection; instead it is the result of his neglect. This is not the monster that roams the countryside in search of its next victim; instead it is a miserable, lonely thing that has no place in society whatsoever, and not place in the heart of his creator. The monster of the novel is a victim of human arrogance and denial, while the monster in the film hate...

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In retaliation to his creator's neglecting, the creature eventually became a monster and proceeded to strangle one by one Victor's brother William, his friend Henry, his wife Elizabeth; the monster also caused the wrongful execution of Victor's longtime friend Justine as well as the death of Victor's father by depression. ... Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned? ... Yet, his plans failed and after being chased away by the Delacey's and then shot by man as he was rescuing a girl from drowning, all the knowledge...

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After the creation of the monster, Frankenstein has a nightmare in which he embraces and kisses Elizabeth before he realises that he is holding the body of his mother. ... He satisfies his obsession to be reunited with his mother by becoming a mother himself by making the monster, forcing him to reject a relationship with Elizabeth. ... The Creature himself questions Frankenstein's rejection of him: "Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust". ... An example of language used to convey this idea of Frankenstein as a male-mother is visible after the...

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In Mary Shelly's novel, Frankenstein, both Victor and the monster he creates have personalities that tell an enormous amount about their parts in the story, and the story itself. ... The monster which Frankenstein creates is essentially looking for something also, but it's does not deal with knowledge or life where life has vanished. Because of his grotesque appearance, the monster is met with screams and violence, even from his own creator. ...

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In this novel, the creator creates a monster that later on goes out on a vengeful murder. Three ethical concerns arise from such creations of the monster. Firstly, Frankenstein created the monster based on his conviction that he was able to perform such creations. ... Lastly, it is evident that the monster killed Frankenstein's brother but the death was later on framed on someone else. It is also important to note that Frankenstein kept secrets regarding the monster. ...

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If the revolting monster is the short-term result of speculative scientific Prometheanism, what effects may it have in the long-term? ... The creature often called Frankenstein' rather than `Frankenstein's monster`, is not the only `abomination to God`. ... Indeed he may be regarded as true `monster` of the piece, as he is all too clearly lacking Prometheus's vision and pastoral care. ...

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. ... Drawing from mythological legend and rich his...

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The hideous appearance of the first creature lead to Victor's and ultimately society's rejection of the 'Monster'. ... The inability to provide a caring environment to stimulate learning and compassion within the first subject is what Victor correlates to the rash and violent actions by the creature, that ultimately lead to the monster's feelings of "eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind." ...

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Not only did interaction with his loved ones become distant, however it becomes lost, as his monster in which Victor's image was to be perfect, became that of a murderer. ... As if there was no turning back, the monsters destruction had Victor not only fearing the creature, however fearing himself. ...

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As Diana Reese states in her article, "A Troubled Legacy: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Inheritance of Human Rights," "Shelley's monster moves across the shifting terrain of his own indetermination at "superhuman speed"; traversing the slash between man/citizen, reasoner/human, general/individual will in ways that pose a delicate challenge to the work of reason in Enlightenment projects for a new authorization of law" (Reese 49). Reese explains that Shelley's monster challenges the definition of a human, and he thus causes the world to reconsider what ...

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" As he recalled at the last moment, he points out that he fears the destruction that this independent "monster" would do on the unprepared human society: this "monster" isn't aesthetic in human's view, he can only cause disgust and terror, but considering the creation's own biological functionality, which are his physical ability and awareness, he is absolutely beyond human. ...

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