The semi- gothic novel includes several instances of societal prejudice that include the isolation and outcast of Frankenstein's creation, the creature's biased opinion of the cottagers, and the unbalanced and inappropriate classification of Victor. ... Frankenstein himself refers to his own creation as, " the life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed" (88). ... I did not entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable infirmity" (110), and ponders, "Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all woman disowned?" ... Finally upon hearing the...

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The question as to whether or not the wretch's behavior is justified is one such moral dilemma that haunts the readers of this gothic tale. ... "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated whom am miserable beyond all living things." (125) The result of Frankenstein's abandonment is the creature's revenge against him. ... In his mind only and through constant observation he adopts the family as his friends, and from this learns compassion and speech, " these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds ...

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