frankenstein
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is a complex novel that was written during the age of Romanticism. It contains many typical themes of a common Romantic novel such as dark laboratories, the moon, and a monster; however, Frankenstein is anything but a common novel. Many lessons are embedded into this novel, including how society acts towards the different. The monster fell victim to the system commonly used to characterize a person by only his or her outer appearance. Whether people like it or not, society always summarizes a person's characteristics by his or her physical appearance. Society has set an unbreakable code individuals must follow to be accepted. Those who don't follow the "standard" are hated by the crowd and banned for the reason of being different. When the monster ventured into a town"...[monster] had hardly placed [his] foot within the door ...children shrieked, and ...women fainted" (101). From that moment on he realized that people did not like his appearance and hated h
"Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father. " (97) were and decided that he had to make another creature, a companion for the original. the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union [with the monster]" (138) and with the De Lacey encounter still fresh in his mind along with his first encounter of humans, he declared war on the human race. 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. If villagers didn't run away at the sight of him, then they might have even enjoyed his personality. Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster. But society does believe that physical appearance is important and it does influence the way people act towards each other. In a way the monster started out with a child-like innocence that was eventually shattered by being constantly rejected by society time after time. The public needs to know that our society has flaws and they must be removed before our primal instincts continue to isolate and hurt the people who are different.
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Victor Frankenstein,
De Lacey,
Mary Shelley,
physical appearance,
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