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A 4 page essay that examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Frankenstein is very familiar. A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, robs graveyards for body parts, assembles them and reanimates them as a monster. While the emphasis in film adaptations of Mary Shelley's gripping nineteenth century gothic thriller has been on the horror that the monster elicits, both in his creator and the townspeople, the emphasis in Shelley's novel is on the nature of what it means to be human and the destructive nature of regarding those different from ourselves as less than human. In Shelley's novel, the "monster" is not intrinsically evil, rather he is a window on what it means to be human in a world that defines you as a "monster." No additional sources cited.
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adaptations of Mary Shelleys gripping nineteenth century gothic thriller has been on the horror that the monster elicits, both in his creator and the townspeople, the emphasis in Shelleys novel
is on the nature of what it means to be human and the destructive nature of regarding those different from ourselves as less than human. In Shelleys novel, the "monster"
is not intrinsically evil, rather he is a window on what it means to be human in a world that defines you as a "monster." In the middle section
of the novel, the Monster relates to Frankenstein, that is, his creator, the story of his life to this point. The Monster recalls that he has difficulty recollecting the "original
era of my being" (Shelley 88). In other words, like everyone, he has trouble remembering his early childhood, prior to the time he acquired the skills of speech and language.
However, like a growing child, time passes and he begins to perceive the world with greater accuracy. The Monster recounts his early experiments with speaking as making "uncouth and inarticulate
sounds" (Shelley 86). Having already experienced rejection, both by his creator (his technological "father") and the people he has encountered, the Monster is hesitant about exposing himself further. He finds
a peasant cottage where he can unobtrusively observe a family and how they interact and he begins to learn from them. In other words, he begins to learn the
skills of socialization as would any child--from observation. The Monster sustains himself by stealing food from the family during the night. However, he stops this practice as soon as he
perceives that it harms the family. He says, "I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts and roots which I gathered from a neighboring wood" (Shelley 95). The Monster also
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