Who is the Monster in Frankenstein?

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley a creature is created that is seen a monster. But who is the real monster? There are in total three monsters in the novel: The creature, Frankenstein and the society surrounding them as the story develops.
The creature that Victor Frankenstein develops is considered a monster by all of the other people. No one is there to notice that there is a soft interior underneath the hard and ugly shell. The creature is scared and provokes fright because of his size and looks. The creature, however, is not really a monster. All it seeks is acceptance into a society. All it wants is love, which it seeks at first from Frankenstein himself, but does not receive it for he is cast away by this man whom he considers his father. He then runs from the hatred in that community and goes into the woods. There he finds a



 

 
   
 
  
 
 
 
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family that he never faces but they become fond of each other, despite the fact that they never meet. When the family does finally see him they also cast him away and again the monster suffers from the pain of rejection. He keeps running from the pain and looks for love in other places, but he never finds any. Though he may be a monster on the outside he is more decent and more caring than the rest of the people that he encounters.

The monster in this book has been an issue ever since the book was first published. Though most people do agree that Dr. Frankenstein is a monster, the degree of his monstrosity is yet in debate.

As stated, the last monster is Frankenstein, the creator of the first monster. He is a selfish man who first creates the creature because he himself could not bear the loss of a loved one. After creating the creature h


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Frankenstein, James Whale, Young Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein S Monster, Novel,

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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS:

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Frankenstein's Monster .... "Monster." Merriam Webster(s Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth. 1993. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York: Norton, 1996. (1082 4 )

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Shelley's Frankenst .... Shelley eventually metes out the punishment for Frankenstein's monster, and at the end of the novel he vanishes out over the ice field to certain death. .... (1266 5 )

Two Major Characters of Frankenstein .... there are two major characters who can be viewed as expressing the plight of the Other; both the Monster and his creator Victor Frankenstein are outsiders at .... (1382 6 )

The Tempest, Frankenstein & Cloud Nine .... Frankenstein, and Caryl Churchill's drama Cloud Nine, we see that values are as socially constructed as surely as Dr. Frankenstein constructs his monster. .... (1230 5 )

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