The Creature Analysis in Frankenstein

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📌Published: 30 January 2022

The Creature views himself as a monster when he sees his reflection for the first time because he does not like what he sees, however he shows he is truly a monster when he kills an innocent child. If Victor had not abandoned the Creature, the Creature would not view himself as a monster because he would have all of his answers about who he is. Once the Creature realizes William is Victor’s brother, the Creature associates the child with the enemy, he then wants to kill the child, and he succeeds. Through the Creature being viewed as a monster when he is innocent, which he then kills an innocent child and proves to be a villain, Mary Shelley argues that there is a difference between being a monster and being a villain. 

If Victor had not abandoned the Creature, the Creature would not be confused about where he came from. He then views himself as a monster. The Creature sees how the villagers have family and people who care about them and then he realizes he has no family and no one who cares about him, “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing” (129). The Creature is sad and confused, because he realizes it makes little sense that he does not have any family or friends but everyone else does. The people who he has come into contact with are not like him. He views himself as a monster, because he differs from the villagers, “I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded thiers. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned” (128)? The Creature has the mentality that if you differ from the people you are around, you are a monster. The idea of being a monster makes the Creature depressed, “I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge” (128). If Victor had not abandoned the Creature, the Creature would not be wanting answers about who he is and where he came from, because the Creature would have become knowledgeable of where he came from and why he is different.

The Creature kills an innocent child because he did not like the way the child reacted when he saw the Creature. The Creature has become insecure about his looks, so when William Frankenstein is scared when he sees the Creature, the Creature decides he wants to teach the child about deformity, “Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity. If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth” (152). The Creature does not know that children can be scared easily and are taught to be aware of strangers. Most young children are not mature enough to know or understand deformity. The Creature gets angrier with William and decides to kidnap him. William tells the Creature that he should let him go, because his father is M. Frankenstein and he will punish the Creature. The Creature notices the last name and he goes crazy, “Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy - to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim. The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet '' (153). The Creature kills an innocent child merely because of his relation to Victor. The altercation only occurred because the Creature wanted to teach a child about deformity. The act of the Creature killing William is a monstrous and villainous act.

The Creature thinks back to all the evil acts he has perpetrated, and he realizes that what he has done is wrong. The Creature thinks back to when he murdered William, “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing”(240). The Creature is taking accountability. He admits William was innocent, and it is his own fault that William is dead. The Creature has a different perspective on things. The Creature feels depressed about what he has done, “I shall die, and what now I feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames”(241). Mary Shelley shows the Creature has had a big change in character. However, even though the Creature realizes what he has done is wrong, it is selfish for him to say that he wants to die because he does not want to feel the way he feels. The Creature fails to consider the pain that the Frankensteins felt when William was murdered.

At the beginning of the book, the Creature is being viewed as a monster because of his looks, however it is ultimately his actions that proves him to be a villain. When the Creature kills an innocent child, it is hard to not view him as a villain, however he then feels remorseful and realizes that the child was innocent. He wants to die from the guilt he is feeling. The Creature realizing what he has done is a good example of character growth. The Creature has realized that his actions were villainous.

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