Although there is no definitive scientific information about what the sub-conscious or conscious mind is, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, since the monster was made, his sub-conscious and conscious mind is severely altered from other human beings. It is believed that the sub-conscious mind supports the conscious mind, or the thinking part of the mind.
             Consciousness is the awareness of the self and one's surroundings. The cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, handles conscious and other complicated jobs like thinking, speaking, and reading. The conscious mind controls all sensations, memories, and experiences that humans have. There are three varieties of consciousness: noetic, autonomous, and anoetion. Noetic implies a semantic memory. Autonomous is self-knowing. Anoetion is non-knowing.
             In a since, the monster is like a child; he knows nothing about the world and the people in it. He is loving and gentle at the beginning of his life, childlike in his curiosity and experiences, but after several harsh encounters with humans, he becomes bitter. This shows just how underdeveloped his conscious mind is. He can only think in black and white; his mind can not understand the "gray" areas of thinking and human emotion. The way a normal human as learned how to develop their conscious mind by experiencing different emotions and learning how to deal with them. The monster, however, has not developed this skill yet. The monster experiences the world through his senses, taking in everything he sees and hears.
             The subconscious is the supporting foundation of the conscious; it is the part of the mind through which information passes on its way from unconscious to conscious mind. All memory is stored and retrived from the subconscious. The subconscious can not tell the difference between right or wrong and takes everything it comprehends literally. The subconscious is the dominate part of the mind. It interprets the i...