Birth is a miracle, but in the case of Frankenstein's creature, this blessing of life is a curse. In the book Frankenstein, the protagonist Victor Frankenstein plays God by creating life with his own hands. Society portrays this creature as a horrid, bloodthirsty monster, and society refuses to accept him as a human being. Frankenstein, the creator, fails to take responsibility for what he created, and leaves the creature in mere desolation, almost like an orphan. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, conveys the impression of the creature as a baby through her use of rhetorical devices, with the attempt to build pathos to evoke sympathy and contempt towards the protagonist.
In the passage, Shelley relates the creature to an infant using sensory details, with the goal of creating sympathy and anger. Specifically, when the creature had awakened, "[he] felt cold and half frightened. " The creature is truly a baby. This demonstrates the feelings of a newborn when it wakes up cold, frigid, and scared in the middle of the night. The juvenile characteristics stress the creature's immaturity. Shelley personifies him as an infant to evoke the warm feeling of compassion. However, she subtly shifts her purpose. She also wants to instigate fury within the reader because of carelessness Frankenstein shows for his helpless child. In addition, "[the creature] learned to distinguish between the operations of [his] various senses. " The creature lacks the art of thinking and reasoning. He is just becoming aware of his own five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste, just like any other newborn. The creature is flailing around on his backside while his senses are opening up. However, he does have a desire to learn. He learns to differentiate between these bombarding senses which show growth. The reader feels pity due to the lack of experience the creature has had. On the other hand, it leads the reader to burn with rage to see this infantile creature abandoned, alone, and afraid.
When the story about Frankenstein creating a creature first began, Frankenstein was hoping for a new discovery. ... He loved his creation before it became to life. ... Right after the monster came to life the differences between them began. ... You can blast my other passions; but revenge remains-my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. ... The monster looked at Frankenstein as a "slave". ...
Furthermore, the creature has no guidance in his life. ... The creature is alone teaching himself the basics of life. ... Here he learned many important things of life. ... He curses his creator because he was left on his own with no guidance and love. In addition, the creature realizes that he has not been living the life he should be. ...
Technology is, and always has been, both a blessing and a curse; a curse often times because it far outpaces our social advancement, much like that of a toddler finding a world of trouble in the otherwise helpful items below the kitchen sink. ... Victor Frankenstein's character epitomizes this aspect, attempting to harness nature,Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?? ... Frankenstein's creation ultimately comes back to destroy him. ... Frankenstein acquires a great power through the ability to create life, and through this power creates a force that is de...
Through many a dark and dreary vale they passed, and many a region dolorous, o"er many a frozen, many a fiery alp, rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, a universe of death, which God by curse created evil, for evil only good, where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, abominable, inutterable, and worse than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. ... His creation later basically corrupts his life by destroying it. ... Frankenstein took the liberty to create his own life....
His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Thus Frankenstein begins his morbid craft, he "collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secret of the human frame", and this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". ... Before he gives life to the monster, Frankenstein shuns the creature because of his appearance but he continues to give life to "the breathless horror" of the monster. ... Even if Frankenste...
In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates a character like Prometheus does, and seeks revenge like Zeus. ... The creature swears: "I will work at your destruction , nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth (139). ... Victor wonders if he has the right to "inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?" ... Frankenstein tells Walton this because his own ambitions destroy his life. ... Victor never apologizes for what he does; he only wishes that his life is different. ...
In her novel "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley asks her audience to consider the limits to which we can expand the category of human nature, and if her creature might be best understood as "human". ... In this paper I build upon Reese's arguments in order to suggest that Frankenstein's creature is technically human and that he deserves the same rights that humans have. ... Victor questions the principle of the cause of life, and realizes that, "to examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. ... Upon his successful discovery of life, he collects numero...
That is why in this novel Victor Frankenstein takes great interest in this field. ... Victor used his knowledge of the body in order to do the impossible; he created life from an inanimate body. He cheats life, but with this creation comes great tragedy and he is the one to blame not the monster. ... Victor creates the monster to rise in fame as the first to create life by his own two hands. ... The hatred towards Victor is seen throughout but it is portrayed vividly when the monster says, "Cursed, cursed creator" (146) When the monster says this he is cursing his creator, Victor,...
This growth continues over a period of time when the character is caught in between two worlds, like Victor Frankenstein was when he was creating the monster in Ingolstadt. He was tested throughout all of Frankenstein, trying to find the true meaning of himself and his work. ... Victor lives the rest of his life in constant fear that his life and the life of others around him could abruptly come to an end. Victor Frankenstein begins his journey as he leaves home shortly after his mother has passed away. ... The destruction of the monster's woman enrages the monster and he curses Vict...
