Frankenstein: the True Monster
One who has only seen the Hollywood version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would assume that in the course of the book the true monster is Dr. Frankenstein himself. But upon analysis of the text it becomes clear that it is in fact the Monster who is the greater of the two evils. Although created by the doctor, his own hatred and consciousness yield an evil larger than even the doctor could have predicted. The monster himself, like Dr. Frankenstein, is an unbalanced being. He cannot keep his intellect in line with his emotions. The monster, outcast from society, seeks vengeance. "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear," says the monster to his creator. The monster then promises to work on the destruction of Dr. Frankenstein. In the case, his emotions cloud what is rational. He should not try to destroy Dr. Frankenstein any more than any child should commit parricide. It is not morally, or legally right. Further more the combination of the monster being half person, half machine adds to not only to why the Monster is rejected by society, but also leads to connections between the classic monsters such as the Minotaur, whi
The first step in creating the Frankenstein monster was taken by Dr. Frankenstein. After the monsters creation the monster was brushed aside by the doctor. The monster was then helped along by the De Lacey family. In the end though, the monsters own emotional short falls brought both his reign of terror and his own fate upon him. No one person can be blamed for the evils of another, other than the person who committed those evils. This is much like what the government did in Harrison Bergeron, the short story by Kurt Vonnegut. In this story the government is the monster. In a search for equality, the government uses debilitating devices to stifle the concentration of the people, or impair them physically so that no one person is greater than the other. This is the same as the monsters action to kill whomever Dr. Frankenstein has ever been close to. Since the monster cannot be loved, neither will his creator. Or, if this one person cannot think in more than twenty second bursts, neither will anyone else. This stunning lack of compassion on the part of the monster was not his fault. Such as that, Frankenstein was also a
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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