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Christopher Ramirez
Professor: Holly batty
English113B
7 may 2015
Society is Monstrous
The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly was written in 1818 and tells the story of
Victor Frankenstein and his obsession with creating a human from various dead body
parts. After he creates the monster he abandons him. The monster was not created evil but
was made into an evil monster by the way the villagers and Victor treated him. Thats
why they were scared of the monster because people tend to fear something that doesnt
look normal to them or they dont understand. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley he is seen as an evil monster but in reality it is the villagers and victor
Frankenstein who are the real monsters in the novel, and what this monster did was bring
out the inner evil in the people showing them who they really were as people and a
society.
In the novel many people thought the monster was the evil one. In the article The
Failure of Maternal Domesticity: An Evaluation of Frankenstein as a Didactic Source
Swaney states victor Frankenstein and the villager were not the evil ones He was Causing
Frankenstein so much pain and the people he came across he lacked the maternal
guidance so integral for emotional development (55 page). He is incapable of
controlling any emotion that emanates from his soul. Victor labeled the creature he
created as the devil because of the way he looked and the stuff he did to him like killing
his younger brother and killing his best friend and his wife just for revenge so victor can

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suffer. As well people may say that he is a monster because he is hideous and inhumane
he was not born naturally he was mad by the hands of Frankenstein witch fits in the
category of not human. Although he might have been created and then rejected right after
it does not give the monster the right to go destroy and kill people just for revenge the
monster had a choice to kill or not to kill so his actions are his responsibilities. So
according to this article to them people should be treated badly for the way they look
because history taught us if they dont look normal or look like every one else they
should not be treated like every one else.
However, the monster was not the evil one it was Frankenstein and the villagers.
In the article Frankenstein: The Man and the Monster storment states, Dr.frankenstein
who creates the monster then hides from the responsibilities (54page). His cowardice
not only leads to the death of his younger brother, but also that of a young girl accused of
his brothers murder. The monster in fact, has moments of great intellect and rationality.
In the story the creature begins his life with love of beauty with gentleness, and with
compassion. But his experience with people destroys that. The monster has shown no
natural proclivity towards evil, indeed his actions have been genuinely altruistic, having
surreptitiously stocked the cottagers wood pile and in return, the monster has a place to
live and conduct his self education by observing the cottagers, from whom his affection
increases as if he were an orphan finally finding a family to call his own. And what this
shows is that the monster does care for people and he dose want to feel like he belongs
but do to his appearance people do not see him as a human being.
The monster was seeking to represent himself. In the article Frankenstein and
the Miltonic Creation of Evil Soyka rousseus the philosopher suggests, The idea of

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gigantism signifies a distortion of perception caused by mans fear of others. Not only is
this analysis relevant to Frankensteins creation, but the constitution of the fear in
Frankenstein can be expressed more precisely. And this could happen in are every day
life One area I which gigantism and fear are related is a childs perception of the
coincidence between his parents physical and moral authority, and this thematic
conjunction is crucial through the novel. As well this shows that people tend to fear stuff
that doesnt look normal to them or they dont know what it is. And we see this in society
today for example people that are considered not normal get treated different because we
as people see it as more taboo than normal.
However the monster was turned evil close to the middle of the book but is was
not the monsters fault. This shows us that society is evil because we outcast people that
look different. And even in today society if some one walks by and sees someone that
looks deformed we tend to stair and the person that looks different gets mad or depressed
because he is not seen as a human but seen as a monster. And in the book its the same
this happening the monster wants to be seen as every one ells but society wont let it.
Frankenstein hade to animate a companion and if he did the monster will fly from
the habitation of man. But Frankenstein refused to crate again in fear of unleashing a
plague of monsters upon earth. Rather than being heralded as the founder of a new
species, Frankenstein now fears the future Frankenstein now sees himself as satan rather
than god. But all the monster was trying to do is have a family of his own comprised of
his own kind, for if I have no ties and affection. Hatred and must be my portion; the love
of another will destroy the Couse of my crimes, and I shall become a of whose existence
every one will be ignorant and what the monster is trying to say is if he had a

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companion like him. He wont feel so alone and destroy or kill because the only reason he
is killing people is to show Frankenstein that he is tired of feeling alone and society
treating him bad. And to many people that are different might feel the same way they feel
alone because they are different or they dont feel normal because society told them they
are not normal.
When the monster describes himself, its all sunshine and light. He has visions of
amiable and lovely creatures keeping him company the monster admires Agatha and
felixe as superior beings the monster describes himself as having good dispositions
and tells de lacey my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial and
as well he uses extreme labor to rescue a young girl from drowning but no matt what
he does, his actions are always misinterpreted. Felix and Agatha think hes come to attack
their father but that was not the case he was just trying talk to him because the man was
blind so the monster new that the man wont judge him by the way he looked but by the
way he acted and sounded. His goal was for the man that was blind to convince felix and
Agatha that the monster should stay with them but when they saw him they were terrified
in what they saw. This is a great example of just because something that looks ugly or
doesnt look like every one ells doesnt make it evil you should give it a chance to prove
that it was not evil but the monster never got this chance. But people that look different
dont get accepted in to society and in the book Frankenstein he did not get excepted into
society and thats what makes society so evil because we treat people on there look and
not whats in the inside of someone.
In closing people should not judge you by the way you look but in the way you
act and percent youre self. And in the novel people did not give the monster a chance to

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prove that he was good person not evil like Avery one think he was. But that did not
happen the people and victor Frankenstein treated him bad for looking ugly with a tall
body. They looked at what was in that out side than the inside and what the monster had
was a heart of gold he was willing to learn the language and be like the humans he cared
about people like the people from the cottage. But society did not want the monster to be
apart of their human society and that led the monster into an evil path of killing and anger
for the man that created him victor Frankenstein the people crated a monster. And what
this booked has shown me was that no matter how hard you try to fit in into society,
society will treat you bad for looking a certain way.

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