MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN

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Throughout Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, she portrayed Victor Frankenstein's creation as the monster of the novel because he was disfigured and hideous on the outside. She portrayed Victor Frankenstein as a handsome and caring victim. Looks can be deceiving but actions are always true. Victor was not the victim in this novel. The only kind of victim he was, was a victim of his own actions.

Frankenstein's ignorance was first shown while he was busy in his work. He did not visit his family for several years. Those are the people that loved and cared about him, yet he did not go home. Not even to visit his own father, the man who paid for his schooling and necessities. He selfishly stayed in solitude, hard at work on his studies.

Frankenstein's ignorance and irresponsibility was then shown when he disowned and abandoned the creature after spending years of work creating it. He ran out of the room and fell onto his bed after seeing the creature come to

Victor's ignorance is seen again when he did not tell anyone that he had created the creature and that he found out that it had murdered William. That in turn meant that Justine's and William's deaths were both indirectly Victor's fault. He could have stopped the creature's "evil" deeds by producing a mate for him. But Victor "shuddered when (he) thought of the possible consequences of (his) consent"(105).

life and blink its eyes. The creature then woke Victor by lifting up the bed curtain and "his jaw opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks...one hand stretched out...but I escaped" (Shelley,35). The monster tried to speak to Frankenstein and smiled and reached out a hand, just like a child reaching for their parent. Victor, only seeing a huge monster with the most hideous appearance, even though he had chosen all the best body parts for its creation and because he suddenly felt an immoral presence upon his new cre

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Approximate Word count = 649
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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