Judgement at First Sight

Whether people like it or not, society always has a problem with people’s appearance. One has to follow some kind of a system, or rules in order to be accepted. Those who do not follow the policy are hated and put apart from everything and from everyone, for the reason of being different. This is the case of the poor “monster� created by Frankenstein. The way he looked was a problem for him and for the people in the community. If physical appearance were not important, then the creature would have had a chance of being accepted into the community with love and care. However, society does believe that physical appearance is important and it does influence the way people act towards each other.
Frankenstein should have made the “monster� less offensive if even he, the creator, could not stand his disgusting appearance. “Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived� (Chapter 5).
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Sometimes we as humans cannot love or accept somebody if it is ugly. We always look for beauty first. This reaction could be explained as being part of nature.

Racism is an obvious similarity with Frankenstein and today’s society. These similarities are shown the moment that the monster is brought into this world. The first thing Victor saw was this horrid and disgusting figure. “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath” (Chapter 5). At this time when he refers to the monster’s skin, he seems to react as the modern people would react by being racists. The color of one's skin does not dictate the intelligence, attitude and behavior of a person. Regardless of the yellow skin of the monster, which would unplease and scare most people, there is no need to carry over that emotion to judge the monster's intellectual attitude. The mind and body are two very different things. Human beings need to distinguish that fact. This racist issue has existed during many years. For example, I would refer to the great words of Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Human beings all want to be accepted in society for their intellectual and physical abilities. If a person is not accepted by society, he or she becomes something apart like the monster in Frankenstein. When the monster went into a town “One of the best of these I entered; but I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted… (Chapter 11). From that moment on he realized that people did not like his appearance and hated him because of it. If the people who lived in the village had not run away at the sight of him, then they might have even enjoyed his personality. Then they attacked him because they did not know the “monster’s” int