Frankenstein the monster: Creation of one’s inner self.

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Frankenstein the monster: Creation of one's inner self.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; the monster is not Frankenstein's creation, the so-called monster, but rather Frankenstein the creator.

Society views monsters as ugly beasts that are a sigh of destruction and commonly depicted as having no since of judgment and no conscience.

However, not all monsters fit this common description.

Some monsters can hide beneath seemingly normal physical appearances.

In, Frankenstein, it is the creator who is the monster and not the creature.

The creature is a reflexion of the creator.

Frankenstein is the monster for many reasons: first, he goes to charnel houses and searches around for body parts to create a perfect monster "Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses." (56).

He was searching through body remains, he seems unbothered by the dead people that surround him, and in fact he almost is happy "suddenly a light broke upon me brilliant and yet so simple"(56). He's happy finding the parts for his creation. Once Frankenstein has created his being he is appalled by it, " I had selected is features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God"(60). He seems to finally see what he was creating and have become aware of the vast differences that common man will see in the creature. So, astonished by his creations grotesqueness he abandons it "Unable to endure aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continue the longtime traversing my bedchamber unable to sleep." (61) Rather then Frankenstein being a normal parent he is monstrous and abandons his creation, he isn't like human parents that don't betray their babies they take care and nurture them.
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Killing is also trait of monsters. Frankenstein has a dream that he is talking to his father, "I'm not mad, I cried energetically; the sun in the heavens that was viewed my operations, and bear witness of my truth. I'm the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by machinations." (160). In Frankenstein's dream he talks to his father about the killing he's had to do to rescue the human race the room his own creation. When Justine was being framed for a murder she didn't compete it was Frankenstein that new the true character. However he ...

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