frankenstien crticism
The Creator's Faults in the CreationOften the actions of children are reflective of the attitudes of thosewho raised them. In the novel Frankenstein : Or the Modern Prometheus byMary Shelly, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the sole being that can takeresponsibility for the creature that he has created, as he is the only onethat had any part in bringing it into being. While the actions of thecreation are the ones that are the illegal and deadly their roots aretraced back to the flaws of Frankenstein as a creator. Many of Frankenstein's faults are evident in the appearance of hiscreation. It is described as having yellow skin, dark black hair, eyessunk into their sockets, and black lips (Shelly 56). Frankenstein, havingchosen the parts for his creature, is the only one possible to blame forits appearance. Martin Tropp states that the monster is "designed to bebeautiful and loving, it is loathsome and unloved" (64). Clearly it isFrankenstein's lack of foresight in the creation proce!ss to allow for acreature that Frankenstein "had selected his features as beautiful," (56)to become something which the very sight of causes its creator to say"breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He overlooks theseemingly obvious fact that
He on!ly murders him upon realizing that he is a relative ofFrankenstein. The creature isintrigued by the lives of the people that he finds living in a small cabin,the De Laceys. Thisaction is described by Tropp as, "a last attempt to enter its [Paradise's}gates" (75). The creature's ultimate plea for companionship comes when herequests that Frankenstein creates another monster to be his mate, and thatthe two monsters would live in isolation. The creature is "in one sense aninfant-a comically monstrous eight! foot baby- whose progenitor rejects himimmediately after creating him. He says that the creation is "born of Frankenstein'smegalomania" (81). Frankenstein seems obsessedwith being the father of this new race, so he makes the creature large inorder to assure its dominance. Were hethinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness. The first thing that Frankenstein notices upon theactivation of his creation is one of being appalled (56).
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