Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Is the Creature a Monster?

Frankenstein pg. 67-70

            Victor is on a journey to find the being he created. He travels a distance across a frozen lake and suddenly sees a figure approaching him. Victor ran into the creature he brought to life. At first Victor is furious to see it. He says, “Devil!” I exclaimed, “do you dare approach me?” Obviously Victor has hard feelings towards his creation. The creature says, “I expected this reception, all men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?” The creature basically tells Victor to chill out. The creature killed people because he didn’t know any better. He was made out of spare body parts that Victor found and somehow got a brain. The creature doesn’t understand how Victor could be as mad as he is when Victor made the creature in the first place. The creature and Victor talk for a while. Victor only has negative things to say and doesn’t make his point clear. The creature, on the other hand, gets his point across very clearly. He understands that he is unwanted and unneeded but he doesn’t quite understand why Victor wants to kill him, because he was created for a purpose. The creature forms a decent argument, he kind of sounds philosopher-like, he’s on that Aristotle game. The creature doesn't sound like a monster to me, he forms better sentences than his creator! 

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