Prejudice is an unfortunate characteristic that plagues the human race. The word literally means to judge something beforehand, and it occurs when a wrong opinion is formed about something based on irrelevant characteristics and not on the important things that matter. Shelley opened up this issue by expressing it through the creature in her novel Frankenstein. Throughout the entire novel, the creature is bombarded with undeserved prejudice. Shelley used the creature in her novel to raise awareness to the issue of prejudice and its harmful effects by showing events of prejudice against the creature and the damaging results of those events.
             The prejudice starts from the very beginning of the creature's life when its own creator unfairly rejects it. In chapter five, Victor, the creator, despises it from moment he laid eyes on it: "But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and the breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. (Shelley 42)" As soon as Victor saw the creature, he rejected it and deserted it. This was an unfair judgment because Victor based his opinion strictly on looks and didn't know anything about its personality.
             The prejudice against the creature continued, and another big act of prejudice occurred when it tried to interact with the De Lacey family in chapter 15. By this time, it was already aware of human's disgust for its physical appearance, so it attempted to talk to a blind man in the family first. Unfortunately, the family discovered it talking to the blind man and viciously attacked it, sending it away from them. The creature explained, "Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted... Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his fathe...