... working class girl, had a significant impact on the construction of the novel's main character, Frankenstein. Just as Rousseau condemned his own children, Frankenstein abandoned his own creation -- the monster, similarly condemning his "child" to a life of ostracism and social rejection. In both cases parental abandonment resulted from masculine, egotistical, pursuit for glory. The fate of Rousseau's ... judgement of his irresponsible actions, Frankenstein is subsequently punished for ambitious pursuits. Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. Th...

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... of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality indicates that man is, by nature good, and that it is society that turns him into an evil monster. In his Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau lays out his characteristics of 'natural man'. He defines two key motivating principles: self-preservation and pity ... of the state of nature and looses his fundamental natural goodness. (Discourse101) Shelley's concurrence is clearly represented through her illustration of the monster after he escapes Victor's apartment. He takes up residence near the cottage of the De Lacey family, he has not yet learned to ....

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... the aforementioned biblical relationships. During the first stages of Victor's alive creation, Victor obviously held all the cards due to the fact that the monster had no idea what was happening. However, as time went on, the monsters physical and mental capabilities gave him advantages over Victor and soon ... enough, he had more power than Victor. The power that the monster retained over Victor wasn't only physical though. During the monsters' fits of anger and rage, his murders emotionally distressed Victor. The murders that were ... to God. From a different aspect, Mary Shelley may ...

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... Victor then or equally to his creation. Today's audience would feel initially more intrigued then anything on the monsters introduction. The monster's rejection would have created an automatic sympathy for the monster and the emotional events of the creature longing for acceptance and companionship would have only justified the audience's feelings of sympathy, ... has with socially accepted people and then with the blind man who can only judge the creature by his personality. While developing different views of the monster from his looks and then strictly from his personality, Shelley di...

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In "Frankenstein" and "Brave New World," there is much debate over who the real monster is in each of these stories. While some readers argue it's the creation and the savage, others arduously contest this by saying Frankenstein and Mustapha Mond are the true behemoths, ... which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of becoming one among my fellows" (Shelley, 106). As many would argue, if any character should be labeled as the real monster in this novel, the creation should be the last on considered. Yet it is not the fault of the characters who attacked this creature for the ind...

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... people's views and ideas and to everyone his appearance is seen and he is judged before people get to know the person that he is, '"Let me go!" he cried; "Monster! Ugly wretch..." Shelley makes a point therefore that even though people may be born innocent from an early age society turns and changes the way people are, and by this Shelley ... that he longs for some kindness, protection and company. These desires become even more evident when he reads the diary that Victor kept during his creation. From these papers, the monster learns that Victor was not at all happy with his creation. ...

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... as an evil and dangerous being, in that it becomes easier for the reader to pity Frankenstein if some of Frankenstein's responsibility in creating the monster is then transferred to the evil deeds performed by the monster. Thus, we are to assume that Frankenstein has some ulterior motive, whether conscious or unconscious, in his retelling of the events of his life, and ... , as upheld by society in its persecution of those who fall outside those standards, remain intact and unchallenged. By this reasoning, society bears no responsibility for the creation of the monster. He is merely an i...

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... misery (Ch.24)( pg.207)." As he recalled at the last moment, he points out that he fears the destruction that this independent "monster" would do on the unprepared human society: this "monster" isn't aesthetic in human's view, he can only cause disgust and terror, but considering the creation's own biological functionality, which are his physical ability ... ...

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... psychology, the fact that we are all shaped by our environment and experiences. Frankenstein's creation is basically good-natured, seeking a reciprocation of love, and only becomes a monster after his does not find it. The monster was ostracized from society for being different, an unfortunate quality that remains today through bigotry and racism. Indeed, we can see that Shelly's book is just as ... ...

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... her or ask her personal questions about her physical form. For example, on page 118 a group of boys in her sixth grade class says, "Hey, girl, take off that monster mask – oops, she's not wearing a mask!" Other forms of cruelty include knocking her hat off and calling her Baldy at the expense of her hair loss due to ... ...

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... read, the creature stumbles upon a satchel full of books left in the woods. By his own admission, "I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books"" (Shelley 116), the monster reveals how the books affect him. From Sorrows of Werter he learns about "despondency and gloom " and begins to question his creation, from Plutarch's Lives he learns "high thoughts and ... ...

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... more apt for the civilization in which she represents and strengthening the society. Not only did a woman cause the two to go on this journey and help them defeat the monster, women helped fuse the bond between the two conquerors. While keeping the bond between Gilgamesh and Enkidu in mind, it is important to remember just how this bond was formed ... ...

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... in clans and those who were outcasts. Most people lived in single family homesteads and were organized around a leader. As in the case with the dragon, which we see as a monster, might have actually been an outsider with whom others could not relate. Such a person could be either of a different race or of deformed nature and probably had a different mindset then ... ...

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... moral order. He deems Bath "the rendezvous of the diseased,"" and is openly disgusted at the mixture of social classes utilizing the same facilities. Similarly, London has "become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment or support."" The city becomes inseparable from the people who inhabit it; the public takes on ... ...

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