Frankenstein - how does the monster change during the novel?

As we read more we get to know that Victor Frankenstein described the monster when he first came alive. The monster was ‘hideous’ with his ‘yellow eyes’, ‘pearly white teeth’ and ‘scarcely skin’. Here Shelley wants us, as readers, to be repulsed by what we see. She wants us to know that knowledge is dangerous: the monster is a symbol of Victor’s knowledge to the monster by running away. This Quote “I rushed of the room, and continued a long time transversing my bedchamber”, shows that Victor is distressed by his creation.

As we readed more we observed that the monster is described as Childlike, for example, when he came across the fire and was excited by it’s ‘warmth’. Here Shelley is telling us that the monster has started to feel his senses. He is naïve and we feel sorry for him. Mary Shelley then introduces the monster as a narrator because she wanted us to know the truth, in depth and also how the monster felt at that miserable time. We, as readers, feel very sorry about that monster because he was created and left abandoned. When he was cold, when he felt lonely and when he was hungry there was no one to guide him.

Devote the monster hideous physical appearance but he was kind, helpful and childlike. But the time he knew that who he was created by his inner monster came alive and he wanted to get revenge.

He also found, with pleasure, that the fire gave ‘light as well as heat’. He also learned to cook things from the offal left by the travellers been roast which tasted better than the berries he gathered from the trees. He put the berries in the offal but soon he found that they spoiled in the live embers but nuts were improved. Here we see that the monster is experiencing his senses and learning new things.

Later on we found that when he was new to the cottagers he behaved very well. By the time he knew that the cottagers were poverty stricken, didn’t have enough food to eat in the winter, he stopped eating those cherries which he ate before from the trees. He was helpful to the cottagers for example when he observed that the spent a big part of their day stocking wood. So, one night he ‘took’ their ‘tools’ and discovered the use of them. Then he brought home some firewood sufficient for the consumption of several days. From this, we find that he is very kind and helpful to the cottagers. Mary Shelley wants to tell us that we should try to learn new things, collect knowledge and help others. As we read the novel we see that the monster totally changes when the cottagers left him alone, Felix and Agatha stoned him out of the cottage. He didn’t despair about the loneliness and turned the cottage in flames. Then he towards his revenge from his creator. He remembered that his creator Victor lives in Geneva.

When he reached Switzerland he saved a girls life and was very pleased with himself. But unfortunately the girl’s friend injured him because he thought that the monster is hearting her. The monster remained in Switzerland with his pain and agony for a couple of days. Then he reached Geneva after all. We feel that the knowledge has turned the monster into an Evil. Mary Shelley wants us to know that knowledge can be dangerous and can lead to the lowest dejection; if somebody knows a lot about everything he can become unsatisfied.

In my conclusion I would say that the monster changes as he gains knowledge. In the beginning he was kind and helpful, but became dangerous and horrible as he gained knowledge. Mary Shelley describes about the monster to create an image of those circumstance in our head. She also tells us that knowledge can be dangerous. We feel that the monster was innocent and Victor Frankenstein is responsible for everything that has happened.