1. How to Deal With Myself
Despite the new understanding of himself, he eventually proceeds to reject everything within human society, even choosing to disregard his own language and beliefs. ... Therefore he feels inadequate and a need to change, disregarding his old self but simultaneously affirming his new and much wanted identity. ... "Where it is supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their inhuman feastings upon the bodies of their fellow creatures" (Page 163, Paragra...
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). ... As this passage states, the creature has an unusual ability to process information new to him faster than the average human, ...