In contrast, the evil delineated from the monster’s side is somewhat a different story from what the doctor suffered. The monster was basically mutilated, discriminated, and tortured by the society in which he was among including his creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Though he was deformed, disfigured, and grotesque, he had a kind, gentle nature toward life. Because he was shunned and outcast by the society, he sought revenge and murdered all that he was pure beauty, but that only made it worse. All that he wants is a place in society to be accepted like any other ordinary person, but he isn’t. That is why he wants a companion to be created by the doctor so that he would not be lonely throughout the rest of his lifetime. However, he is torn between vengeance and compassion and ends up lonely and tormented by remorse. Much of this is a result from the “evil” that the society has instated in him. Even the death of his mad creator offers only bittersweet relief: happiness in the end since the doctor caused him so much pain, but on the other hand melancholy because Victor was the only person he ever knew and now because he is gone, the monster will forever be lost into an endless eternity of hell, pain, and suffering. The evil that had caused him to do those things is a result of our willingness to shun, discriminate, and flee from those who are not normal. In fact, the monster feels the same way, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” These malicious thoughts fuel the “fire of evil” within the monster. In the end, we become these sick, sadistic monsters who spread this “fire of evil” pervasive throughout our society.

vil, but most of the time good prevails over evil or so they say…

Sophocles’ Oe

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