Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Essays -- Frankenstein Essays

Mary Shelleys FrankensteinThe creature of the novel Frankenstein is intelligent, nave, powerful and frightening. He seeks vengeance, kills trey people, and haunts his creator to the end of his (Frankensteins) days. Why? What inspired and what enraged the creature so much so that he felt this was the only path to lease? When we first meet the creature (truly meet him, that is), he shows his intelligence through with(predicate) speech. One must certainly expect him to be a drooling, dim and violent creature, simply he is, in fact, quite the opposite. He is violent, yes, but he does not show his violent physical side unless evoke to anger. More often than not the creature is full of self pity, ban his existence and his creator for bringing him into it. When the creature and Frankenstein speak to each opposite (though the creature is doing intimately of the speaking), the creature does so fairly calmly, and relays his side of the trading floor -- where he had been, what h e had done and, most valuablely, what he had read. When taking a close look at the creatures behavior and story, it is out of the question to ignore the fact that the two works that seemed to have the greatest continue on him were enlightenment Lost and the notes that he had found in his scoop concerning his own creation. Though each work that the creature read is important in one way or another, these two were the works that helped to mannikin his personality and change how he felt about himself and his plight. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the creatures reaction to Paradise Lost is that he identified not with Adam, but with Lucifer. This explains quite a bit about the creature and a bit about wherefore he acts the way he does throughout the novel. The creature himself even... ...o an eternity of alluring souls away from the Creator, and to live in hell on earth. The creature lives in his own Hell each day, and does not necessarily tempt, though he does in deed bait Frankenstein. Is this justice? A person could argue either way in that respect. To a degree, yes, it is justice. The creature committed terrible acts, to be sure, but he did not ask to be brought into the world, nor to be abandoned. To a degree, the creatures hatred and need for revenge rather help him in his life. He is never nave enough to trust people again, for one thing, and it pushes him to superhuman speed and constitution, things he probably would not have if he had been accepted. Though, is the mad trade-off worth it? Perhaps not. In the end, the creature loses any deliver qualities he may have and becomes far more wretched than he had been in the beginning of his life.