One would initially assume the Monster is the evil one, yet it is Victor who creates the Monster and then hides from the responsibility. ... The Monster, in fact, has moments of great intellect and rationality. ... Whenever the Monster reacts violently, it is a response to being badly treated. ... It is quite apparent that the Monster holds a great amount of anger and bitterness. ... The last streak of compassion dies within the Monster when Victor destroys the female he has promised to create as the Monster's companion, and so the Monster continues with his bloody revenge. ...

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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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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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The monster at this time learns of emotion and compassion. ... By creating the female one, Victor is attempting to make a new family for the monster, but near the completion of the female monster, Victor decides to destroy it. ... A lot of little monsters with superhuman powers running around. ... Although this message doesn't actually get into Victor's mind, he decides to create the female monster just to be rid of the male monster. ... He searches and attempts all possible ways to kill the Monster, but of course the Monster which he created is too powerful for him. ...

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Frankenstein's need of recognition is what drives the madness that occurs after his creation of the monster. ... Frankenstein knows how badly the monster wants a companion, and agrees to grant him his wish. ... The monster demonstrates through his curiosity the want to learn, another human quality he posses. ... The monster has never had someone to love, or has had anyone love him. ... The monster gets fed up and shouts, " 'Cursed, cursed creator! ...

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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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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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Victor also committed a crime when he created the monster. ... The reader gets a good sense of how scared Victor really is of the monster. ... The creation of the monster is the main supernatural event that takes place. ... Once again, the monster is the main example of this characteristic. ... The fact that the monster kills people throughout the second half of the novel is proof of the death in this book. ...

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Victor is later on approached by the monster, where the monster admits to the killing. ... The monster becomes very angry and swears his revenge on Victor. ... Victor was very worried about what the monster might do. ... As confirmed earlier, the monster has a different type of knowledge that he follows. ... This point is made clear in the novel when the monster says, "was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? ...

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After he recovered from his illness after creating the monster, he journeyed into nature. ... This was an obvious characteristic of the monster. ... After he discovered the secret, he used his newfound knowledge to create the monster. ... Frankenstein later went to the university and created his monster in Ingolstadt, Germany. ... When the monster came to life, it was raining in the middle November. ...

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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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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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The novel exposes this through Victor Frankenstein's creation, the monster, who unfortunately is not accepted due to the different characteristics he has been given from his creator. The monster's unfamiliar and appalling countenance not only creates mass hysteria, but separates him from society and motivates him to separate his creator from the world as well. ... The audience may classify the creation as a monster because of it's horrifying countenance, but monsters are also found in souls as well. Who is really the monster: Victor Frankenstein--the selfish, inconsiderate, c...

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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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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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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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God's creation of Adam can be compared to Frankenstein's creation of the monster. However, because Shelley's time believed that only God could create life the life that was created in the monster was doomed to failure. The monster was rejected even at the time of creation. ... Victor's monster was not sown in the body of woman, but "in the body of elements."" ... The monster in Frankenstein was created from dead human organs, and body parts...

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The monster's behavior can be justified because of the lack of guidance and attention he was given when he enters the world. ... In addition to the lack of guidance he received, a second cause of the monster's evil nature is the complete abandonment by his father. ... From the time when the monster first awakes, he goes through a transition. ... To heighten his anger, when he is finally reunited with his creator, Victor acknowledges him as "wretched devil" and "abhorred monster." ...

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Victor plays the role of God by creating a horrible monster. ... He becomes self-centered and acts like he is God in making the decision that he alone will destroy the monster that plagued so many people. It comes to the point where it drives him to madness, and he becomes obsessed with the destruction of the monster.3 Playing the role of God can have horrible results on the physical as well as the mental aspects of a human. ...

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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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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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A novel can be judged in many ways for many things. One of these things is the relevance of its theme, not only to the time period of the book, but to the author's time period and the time period of the reader as well. For a book to have a lasting effect on society throughout the years, the reader o...

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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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Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly, is about Victor Frankenstein's thirst for forbidden knowledge. The story begins with Walton, a sailor, telling his sister he had finally met a true friend named Victor. Victor comes on to Walton's ship ill and unable to speak. Walton nurses him for days until he could speak again. Victor then begins to share with Walton his childhood and how he came to this point in his life. ...

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