Society Creating The Monster In Merry Shelley

’s Frankestein Essay, Research Paper

SOCIETY CREATING THE MONSTER IN MARRY SHELLEY’S FRANKESTEIN

Life Sucks through Frankestein point of view, Mary Shelly shows the values of companionship, fear, trust, and happiness. All of these values the creation wants of portrays, but due to society, he is unable to achieve them. The creation tries to understand these values throughout his life but can’t because of the injustice he receives from the humans. Marry Shelly’s point is that society and the system that society creates its what made the creation a “monster”. The mistreatment of the creation from his first sign of life until the end of this novel, took gradually away the goodness in him leaving the loneliness and hatred dominant in his heart. Also what cause the creation to be bad is the mistreatment of his own creator, his on “father” Victor Frankestein, who made the assumption that the creation was bad directly by not giving him a chance.

When the creation finds his first home at the house of the De Laceys he understands humans better and tries to mimic them. While he stays here the creation watches avidly to learn how to act “human”. The creation feels he can help them out and does so by doing odd jobs during the night. After the creation lives among the family for many years he decides that he will confront the family and tell them about his experiences while living there. Unfortunately the family does not accept the creation and he is scared away. After this incident the creation vows to never help anyone out again because of the mistreatment he endures. Now the creation sets out on a killing spree to get revenge upon his creator so he can understand how he feels. The creation sets out on a killing spree to get revenge upon his creator so he can understand how he feels. The creation sets out on a killing spree to get revenge upon his creator so he can understand how he feels. The creation finally meets up with his creator and begs for a equal counter part. As the creation is speaking to Victor he says, “I was benevolent and good: misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous”(Shelly84). This moves Victor emotionally and he decides to make the creation his counterpart, as long as he promises not to hurt anymore of his family and everybody else. Victor now understands that even though the creation is a fiend he still needs companionship, the lack of fear, trust and happiness. As can be seen the creation wants to be good but bad things have driven him away from this. Throughout the book the creation tries to become more civilized but all the madness turned him into a fiend. While the creation is going about his ways he attacked by a village full of men who no nothing more than to hurt the unwanted. The creation interprets it as, “The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge”(Shelley91). From that moment on he realized that people did not like his appearance and hated him because of it. If villagers did not run away at the sight of him, then they might have even enjoyed his presence. This the creation’s first lesson of man.

The creation receives nothing but ravage men chasing him out of their town. This instills a great deal of fear that the creation knows he does not want to deal with again. What this does to the creation is drives him further away from all good and puts him into a deep depression. After this the creation tells Victor, “Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man”(Shelley91).

While living near the De Laceys the creation finds his first stable home. While living with the De Laceys he learns all about happiness, sadness and feelings of love. Happiness is the one virtue that is the most ironic because he only feels happy when the family does, but he never feels it for himself. When the creation meets the De Lacey family his first impression is that they are a suitable family that get by easily. Although when the creation lives with the family for a considerable amount of time he soon finds out of their troubles. While living there he finds out that the young boy works constantly and so does the sister. The creation feels that he can help out the boy and make him ecstatic by doing so. The creation wants to belong so much that he collects the wood for the family to see them happy. The first time he does this, ” the young woman, when she opened the door in the morning, appeared greatly astonished on seeing a great pile of wood on the outside. She uttered some words in a loud voice, and the youth joined her who also expressed surprise”(Shelley96). The creation doesn’t want to show himself because he thinks that by not understanding him they may fear him, ironically that’s exactly what happens. But this is also what makes the creation want to stay, seeing the happy expressions on the families faces.

Once the creation meets up with his creator and expresses his wants for a companion he states: “Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! My creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my r