I believe it was here that Creature and Victor switch roles.The monster began to grow a sense of family through watching Agatha and Felix, he also started to understand how unpleasant he looks and knows that this is why people are so scared and terrified of him. He is stuck in between a rock and a hard place he wants a companion but knows he can never have a human companion because no human will ever accept him. After hearing Felix and Safie speak the creature finally begins to ask himself, “Was I then a monster,” he asks, “a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?” (Shelley 105). After reading pages of Victor’s journal creature understands how horrific his creation was and how disgusted Victor actually was after his creation. It is only when the Creature starts to tell his story that the reader is almost forced to feel Sympathetic towards creature and his longing for a companion, throughout creature’s story you begin to understand the reasons he had to become a monster, and how he was forced to educate himself and even learn to survive.
Victor abandoned him due to his looks and fear while the world just did it naturally. The creature never asked to be brought back to life, so Victor was the cause of his misery. The monster just went along with his instincts but the relationship between the two became war. In conclusion, loneliness is an important theme in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Being alone differs from being lonely.
Whale’s monster lacks the human appeal of Shelley’s creation through his motivation of his transgressions, lack of speech and physical appearance. Unlike the novel, the film begins with Henry Frankenstein and Fritz, his assistant, rummaging through graves in hopes of finding the remaining body parts to complete Frankenstein’s experiment. Upon returning to their laboratory, Frankenstein realizes he needs a brain and sends his assistant to find one. Through the ineptitude of Fritz, he secured a criminal brain for Frankenstein's experiments instead of the desired normal one. The assembled creation, despite its “grotesque” and “distorted” form, initially appears to be a simple, innocent individual (Lamb, Kibbler, Hall 1).
The narrator is like a child taking order for the male doctors in her life, even going on to say, “personally, I disagree with their ideas.” She does not accept their diagnosis but has no other choice but to follow it’s harsh procedures, much like the woman of the 19th century. The wallpaper, rules, and opinions of other stood between the narrator’s imagination and intellectual desires, eventually driving her to insanity. However, she is not the only woman in the story to feel this snared feeling. John’s sister, Jennie, claimed that she wouldn't mind tearing the wallpaper apart herself, proving she also felt oppressed by the strict rules of society. The narrator finds
Unfortunately, the humans abhor Lilith for choosing this position. They see her power and believe that “she was not human, or not human enough” (180). Their fear and uneasiness has them cast Lilith as an obvious “other”. Lilith’s physical differences, coupled with the humans’ resentment towards Lilith’s status as the “mother” of the group, fuel the growing... ... middle of paper ... ...erous to humans as a whole. Although João’s body accepts Jodahs, his mind stops him from total acceptance, resulting silent hatred during the day but acceptance at night.
Instead of taking actions and strive for happy life, women choose to stay silent. They have all the power to go against self-empowered men, but most of women renounce action. There are certain obstacle created by society and especially men that make it harder for women to stand up for themselves. Women stay in the abusive relationships because our society puts an enormous pressure on them. Fear, shame, oppression and radical change push women to choose life in misery and stay silent.
When the monster meets the blind father De Lacey, he realized his chance for friendship relied more on hearing than sight. The old man's blindness surely overcome human prejudice against physical ugliness, De Lacey commiserated with the Monster and graciously offered him help and friendship. But the reaction of the old man's sighted family upon seeing the Monster desperately clinging to their father deemed him a fiendish threat and the creature found himself drive out of the society of cottagers.
The monster hoped to gain friendship from the old man and eventually his children. He knew that it could have been possible because the old man was blind; he could not see the monster's repulsive characteristics. But fate was against him and the "wretched" had barely conversed with the old man before his children returned from their journey and saw a monstrous creature at the foot of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless elder. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father..." (129). Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster.
In meeting Victor, the epistolary changes to Victor’s narration that Walton ... ... middle of paper ... ... result, when the monster murders his companion, Victor becomes miserable and more isolated. Although the monster had no choice but to live alone, he observed a nearby neighbor, the Delacey’s, and desired to receive affection from that family. By the end of the novel, Victor and the monster were no indistinguishable from each other, both comparable to Satan from Paradise Lost. Through the use of Shelley’s frame narrative, the reader was offered multiple perspectives to one text. Because of the multiple views, the readers change their attitudes and search for a deeper meaning behind the frame narrative.
After years of hard work, he is finally able to create life, but the monster he created is so hideous and wretched that he cannot bear to look at him and runs away from the monster. Because of the rejection the monster faces from other people, he seeks revenge on his creator by killing Frankenstein’s younger brother. Frankenstein, knowing from the beginning only his monster could do such a thing, only thinks vengeful thoughts. On his encounter with the monster, the monster tells Frankenstein to create him a partner that would live with the monster so he wouldn’t be alone. After denying this request the monster kills Frankenstein’s best friend and wife.