... because it is my heart." - Stephen Crane The above statement reflects how the individual must have felt during his forlorn life. The monster merely sought to live as the rest of humanity did. He wanted to find who he was and what he was destined to be; however, in our prejudice ... not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept". The Sorrows of Young Werther were important to Mary Shelley in the understanding of her dead mother as they were important to the monster in understanding human emotion. Mary Shelley's mo...

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In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. However, in the years between his next meeting with his creator, the creature blossoms into ... deformity." (Shelley 93) Though intelligent enough to know he possessed basic emotional needs essential to human happiness, he failed to predict the rejection ...

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