Frankenstein: Chapters 11-16 Primary Blog Post

11/1/2016

These images could depict some of the main plot points of Chapters 5-10. While these moments are important, they are by no means the only significant points in these four chapters.
After having read these chapters:
-Select a single passage (this may be a single paragraph or several) that you feel best typifies the action and Shelley's authorial intent in this section of Frankenstein.
-Explain the action and context of the quoted passage (you must cite the passage) and then,
-Explain how your understanding of this passage (1) supports your understanding, (2) deepens the character development, and/or (3) builds a central message that aligns with one of the unit's essential questions.

Primary Blog Expectations (respond to the prompt above): 200-250 words, minimal errors in grammar and usage, thoughtful and thorough writing. Please use the scientists's name that you selected in class as your nom de plume and be sure to add word count. Due by the start of class on Monday 11/7!

Secondary Blog Response Expectations (read everyone's primary responses, select two that interest you, and respond to their ideas): 100-150 words EACH, minimal errors in grammar and usage, thoughtful and thorough writing. Please use the scientists's name that you selected in class as your nom de plume and be sure to add word count. Due by the start of class on Thursday 11/10!

Sofia Kovalevskaya

11/6/2016 04:34:05 pm

In chapter 15, the monster sees an opportunity to meet the family he was previously stalking for months. He sees this as a potential opportunity “to be known and loved by these amiable creatures” and “to see their sweet looks directed towards [him] with affection” (Shelley 117-118). Ultimately this can be his only chance to be accepted into the community without being hated for his horrible looks and scary stature. Through this I am able to see that the monster wants to be a good person, and his previous actions shouldn’t be judged because of what the monster has experienced. His actions can be looked at as revenge on his creator who abandoned him and everyone hating him because they instantly think he’s a bad person. Unfortunately, when he tries to talk to the man he fails because his family arrives at the home and immediately wants him out of the house. However, even though the family is sticking the monster he still refrains from hurting them and instead leaves the cottage and goes to his home. Through this I can see that even though this opportunity seemed to be his last chance to be accepted he didn’t give up his good morals, instead he still believes in being a good person.
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Anna atkins

11/9/2016 08:14:08 am

Like you I do believe that the creature tried his best to be good but at some point he just snap. It is understandable after all he has been through. His own creator abandoned him because of the way he looks. The one person that should have accepted him was the first person to turn his back on him. Wherever he went people were frightened by him. Villagers tied to hurt him for reasons he does not understand. When he had the opportunity to met the loving family he has been watching he had high hopes. He thought that was his opportunity “to be known and loved by these amiable creatures” and “to see their sweet looks directed towards [him] with affection” (Shelley 117-118). Even that did not work out for him, he just couldn't take it anymore.
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Mary Ward

11/13/2016 03:44:48 pm

I really like how you mentioned and made it clear how it was probably the monster's last chance to be accepted by the community, but yet he still remains to keep his good morals. The readers can see how some average humans would break down at that point and give up everything that they have, but the monster didn't. Could this mean that a creature like him could be some what mentally stronger in some aspects? I also believe that the monster's actions is an act of anger because his creator didn't give him the love and attention that he needed/ wanted.

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Emily Stackhouse

11/13/2016 07:54:19 pm

I agree that it might was more than likely his last chance to fit into the society but why does he want to be accepted by others so much? The creature when he ends up leaving the place in which he was created he goes out into the world searching for answers. After time he learns the things valuable in life, like speaking and fending for yourself. I wanted to know why he spends so much time trying to be accepted by the community when he has other options. Why does the creature not go out and try to find Frankenstein right away? If he had done that then he could have gotten answers to why he was disliked so much. I think if the creature didn’t spend so much time trying to please others and focused on himself he would have been a lot better off.
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Mary Treat

11/6/2016 06:56:03 pm

As the creature tells his story, I began to feel empathy for him. Although he may appear hideous and overly powerful, he genuinely had good intentions. The creature states, "Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me" (Shelley 116).This quote shows the creature's resentment toward his creator Frankenstein. He despises the way that he has been treated by him, and this makes him want to go against him. Frankenstein is the creature's god and has not fulfilled his responsibilities due to his creation.
This relates the the topic of nature verses nurture because the creature was left without a nurturer. He is abandoned by his creator and must learn on his own. I see the creature's actions as intended to be good. He learns to read, wants to interact with others, and rescues a girl from drowning. These are his natural instincts that he learns on his own. However, the creature's lack of nurture is the reason for his violence and hatred. His creator, the one who is supposed to love him unconditionally, flees and rejects him at his creation. He doesn't have anyone to love him, so he turns to violence to make up for this.

Hannah Longshore

11/9/2016 01:55:50 pm

I agree with this statement. The monster really does have good inside him and the more that he watches this family, the more he wants to help and carry these emotions like they do. He is essentially jealous of the emotions they have because they were raised the 'right way'. However, as a result of his abandonment, he feels scared, alone and neglected, therefore igniting is violent actions. He wasn't really 'born' with any emotions that may have been caused by genetics so his emotions depend on the nurture, which was none. The monster takes in his emotions by what he sees and absorbs around him. (106)

Sarah Drake

11/13/2016 04:34:56 pm

I believe the monster is just like anyone else. He's not born with that violence in him. He wants to be loved just like any child longs to be and when given that love many children grow up to be happy. However, the monster was not given that love and was rejected by his creator . You can only expect him to become violent and even hateful after being rejected over and over again. He might not have been born with emotions per say but he was definitely born with a desire to be loved and excepted. Once the family he had such high hopes I'm being accepted also rejects him he just snaps because he can't take it anymore.
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Emily Stackhouse

11/13/2016 08:01:30 pm

a lot better off.

Although the creature has his nurture ideas of good morals such as protecting the girl, he definitely does show dangerous activities. When he goes on violent rants and kills people, most of us are feeling bad for him. We say that it is okay and empathy should be made toward him because he didn’t have the love in which he needed. I disagree with the statement that we should feel sympathetic and it’s okay for his violence. Just because someone doesn’t have love when they were younger means it’s okay to act out. Many times in life we see cases of people who have done horrible things such as murder and they get charged for it. A lot of the time these people didn’t have a strong household growing up, and it causes them to rebel like that. However, these people are still punished for their actions, which is why i don’t understand why we should feel sympathetic toward the creature? If he has these human abilities, he should be treated like a human would when it comes to those aspects.
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Ethel Sargant

11/13/2016 10:27:24 pm

I agree with you, because I also started to feel bad for the creature and all the awful things that he is going through. I feel bad for him because like you said, he has good intentions but many keeping judging and rejecting him based off his physical looks. I always ask myself what would have happened if the family would have looked passed that and actually accepted him. I believe that love is a great part of nurturing and like you said, he was left without it so he is just trying to find a place where is accepted and loved, since he can’t find love in his own creator whom should have acted as a parent from the start. (word count: 121)

Anna Atkins

11/6/2016 07:21:18 pm

In chapters 11 and 12 the creature is telling Victor about the days he spent alone. Throughout those chapters the creature found himself enduring quite a lot of pain. Everywhere he goes people are frightened by him and flee in his appearance as depicted in the pictures above. At first he lived in the woods but left when he ran out of food. He found what he thinks is a place for sheperd with an old man living in it and the old man “flight somewhat surprised” him (Shelley 94, 95).That is only the starts to how many people he encountered that are frightened by him. When he left that place he found a village and the first house he wandered in, the children screamed in fear and the woman fainted. He got chased by others who wanted to hurt him and had to hide out. At first he was puzzled and tormented as to why they were scared of him, but one day “ I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back and, unable to believe that it was indeed who was reflected in the mirror”(Shelley 102). The creature realized he was truly a monster. Although now he knew why people fled in his presence but he was still tormented by this new discovered knowledge. Those couple chapters imply the idea that knowledge in not always a good thing as demonstrated in previous chapters. The creature knew what he looked like but tormented by his appearance.
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Mercy B Jackson

11/9/2016 10:40:16 am

I agree with your statement that knowledge is not always best because the more the creature found out and understood, the more his urges to hurt became more evident. This relates to Victor because he wanted to gain so much knowledge and now his findings have back fired on him because he is struggling to keep the creature a secret and at bay. I feel like the creatures experiences he faced while being abandoned is another way for Shelley to further the theme of the story that knowledge leads to destruction. The more the creature learns about humans, life, and relationships, the more he is affected negatively. wc 107

Jane Colden

11/15/2016 06:28:40 am

I agree with your idea that sometimes knowledge is not always conducive to a situation. We encounter this situation in our daily life sometimes as humans. This is because human beings are easily swayed by the opinions of our peers. Until we are made aware of our flaws and differences, we rarely see them our self. When the monster is made aware of how he appears to others, he is saddened and he becomes it angers him even more and leads to rage directed against the humans. This shows the monsters humanness. He wants to be accepted and liked by the people who he sees as peers. Word Count 107

Josephine Yates

11/6/2016 07:29:48 pm

In this section, readers get to understand the creature. Until now, we’ve really only known Victor’s perception of him, which isn’t the whole reality. We begin to understand that from the moment he came to life, it began to shape who he was. This brings “nature vs. nurture” into question. On page 92, the creature talks about his first moments: “It was dark when I awoke… I sat down and wept.” He says that he was frightened and helpless. He also says that he knew nothing, but could feel pain. This shows readers that even in a childlike state and having been just “born”, he could still understand pain. He knew what his feelings were caused by; he could understand his own misery. Not knowing anything else, it was still an instinct to cry. This shows readers that he was not born inherently evil. If Victor had not abandoned him, he could have been molded into a being that did not bring despair everyone he went. If Victor had cared for him and taught him right from wrong, he never would’ve become a danger. Left confused and emotionally hurt, it was only a matter of time before he learned the negative aspects of human nature.
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Mercy B Jackson

11/9/2016 10:31:21 am

I agree with you because I do believe that if Victor had acted like the parental figure he should have, then Frankenstein would have turned out evil. Like you said the monster wasn’t born evil, it was born with some knowledge of humans and emotions. However the neglect that it faced upon birth did shape his personality and actions. Victor automatically neglected the creature when he saw that he wasn’t the perfect creation he wanted. That’s why I feel like Shelley included these chapters to show how the creature’s actions were shaped by nature rather than the nurturing behavior of Victor. wc 101

Charlotte Knight

11/6/2016 07:38:59 pm

In chapter 15, the creature starts to lament their existence after reading literary works such as Sorrows of Werter, Plutarch’s Lives, Paradise Lost, and Frankenstein’s papers stored in the creature’s shirt pocket. These works further cemented the creature’s self loathing as they can only describe himself as an “odious and loathsome person” (Shelley 116). Paradise Lost in particular has strengthened his feelings as isolation as they state “Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred” (Shelley 116). It also doesn’t help that throughout all this time the creature admired the cottagers from afar. So as they shares in the joys of the cottagers’ lives the pangs of loneliness hit harder and harder. This shows that while the creature may be a monster in his appearance, they still crave the wants and needs of humans such as companionship. And all of this fueled the creature’s disdain towards Frankenstein as they cursed his name and when they finally met all that he asked was “Why?” The creature is a genuinely nice person and wants to be friends with others it’s just that their countenance drives others away from them and he becomes progressively bitter towards themselves. And even when he musters up the courage to speak with the cottagers and they just reject him like everyone else, they just accept it because they realize if they were them, they’d do the same thing as well.
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Emily Stackhouse

11/6/2016 07:56:33 pm

In this section of Frankenstein, the creature is has experienced pain and hardship along his journey after Victor left him. We start to truly see the emotions in which the creature feels. Most of the time these feelings are complex and of those that would be related to a humans. In chapter 11, he states “ Food, however, became scarce; and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuge the pangs of hunger”.(Shelley 94). He also later on states in chapter 14 this idea of friends, “I learned the history of my friends”(Shelley 109). Friendship and pain are concepts in which living creatures feel and understand. Only those who have emotions that are complex can understand having a friend. The creature somehow understands or has an idea of what a friend could be. Shelley included these concepts inside the creature to somewhat show us this relatedness of the creature to a human. Earlier on in the novel, we read about how the creature has killed Victor’s brother and plans on hurting more people. However, it isn’t until later on that we hear and understand the story behind it. When Shelley introduces us to the creature feeling emotions we see that he understands an idea of human nature. Everyone knows that humans make mistakes and the creature made a mistake. But by connecting the creature to this idea of a “human” it allows us to feel sympathy towards him because he does make mistakes like a “human”. Without this, readers possibly wouldn’t have felt sympathy toward the creature.
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Mary Treat

11/12/2016 03:02:29 pm

This section of the novel where Shelley lets the creature tell his story is important for the reader's understanding of the creature's character. As you said, the creature was previously viewed as a wild monster because of his murder of William. However, after learning the creature's story and his loneliness, the reader feels sympathy for the creature. We can all relate to the feeling of loneliness and isolation, so by making the creature more human-like, Shelley allows us to feel for the creature. Although the creature appears as a monster to others and makes them fear him, readers can now see deeper into him. The creature has the same feelings as humans and wants to fit into a world that won't accept him. 123

Sarah Drake

11/13/2016 04:44:44 pm

I agree. One persons view on things can be completely different than the reality. In this case, Victor only sees his creation as a horrible monster. As long as we are hearing the story told from Victors perspective we begin to believe that. However, once we get to see the monsters side of things we get a completely different perspective, and begin to realize the monster is much more human than Victor realized. He feels emotions, he feels so much pain in the time he was alone, and he just wanted to be accepted and loved. We learn so much about the creatures character in these carers because of this. He wasn't created a monster he became a monster because that's all others wanted to see.

Ethel Sargant

11/13/2016 10:50:02 pm

I agree with your statement and revelations made in these chapters, however we also start to see the creature’s true colors and the kind of person he really is despite all the neglection he has experienced. This makes me feel anger towards the people treating him bad because they are just being ignorant and missing out on a great friend. Not only that but like you said, I feel like in these chapters he notices more of the things is he missing, such as not having friends and what it’s like to have a family. Which in the long run isn’t good, because it just enforces and reminds him of how lonely he really is. As we continue reading the story, our point-of-view is changing too and I’m curious to see how our perspectives will get continue to get changed towards the end. (143)

Mercy B Jackson

11/6/2016 10:11:34 pm

In chapters 11-13 the creature explains to Victor the struggles he went through trying to adapt and live in the real world. Until now, the reader only knows what Victor sees and decided to tell us, so hearing the story from the creature's point of view makes the reader feel sympathy for the hardships the creature had to endure. For example the creature explains that, “It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half-frightened, as it were instinctively, finding myself so desolate. Before I had quitted your apartment, on a sensation of cold, I had covered myself with some clothes; but these were insufficient to secure me from the dews of night. I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch” (Shelley 92). This demonstrates the pictures shown because each picture is an obstacle the creature had to face alone due to Victor's abandonment. I think that Shelley includes the creature's point of view to show the reader that just because he is ugly and monstrous on the outside, he is helpless and struggling on the inside. Including this point of view also makes the reader feel negatively towards Victor once more for leaving the creature all alone to learn and adapt by himself, but also to show how Victor's knowledge of these events makes him take responsibility for what he has created instead of denying it. 228

Josephine Yates

11/13/2016 07:33:15 pm

I agree with you saying that Shelley includes the creature's point of view to show his helplessness and his internal struggles. All along, we've only seen Victor's point of view. Although most readers viewed Victor as horrible for abandoning the monster that he had dedicated himself to, they also saw the monster as horrible for killing people. Including the creature's point of view casts him in a different light. He isn't just this evil creature that he was previously believed to be. He is a victim of his circumstances. He was "born" neglected and afraid; he did not originally know anything that was "good". He had only known hurt and abandonment.
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Jane Colden

11/15/2016 06:42:14 am

I agree with you that Victor is to blame for the monsters violent nature. These chapters made me see Frankenstein not as a tortured artist but an absentee father. He should have taken care of the monster and trained it in the way he wanted it to go, instead of acting the way Victor wants him to, the monster reacted in the manner that humans reacted to him, with violence. I do not feel bad for Victor now that the monster is trying to torture him. If he had not turned away from the monster, the events leading up to his brothers death would not have happened. 107 Words

Ethel Sargant

11/7/2016 12:19:20 am

Scientific advancement can be good and bad depending on the outcome of the situation. Like in the case of the creature when he discovered fire, he was astonished by its capabilities. It served good purpose as to keep him warm but it also harmed him when he touched it. He states “In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. How strange I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects! (93).” I believe this marks the start of self-awareness in the creature and causes him to lose innocence in a way. This effect can also be seen when he starts to learn the language of the family he is stalking. It is good that he can now speak, read, and write because now he can understand the world and communicate with others however, he is now able to read Victor’s journal entries and discover how grossed out and disappointed Victor truly feels about him. This then leads to even more hatred and wanting of revenge. At this point I feel the monster regrets having acquired this knowledge because he states “of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.” Meaning that all the knowledge he has attained is irreversible. Kind of like the monster himself, he was a product of knowledge but things got out of control and negative events occurred even though throughout these chapters we can see the creature’s true colors and realize he is a kind hearted being. (word count: 273)

Mary Treat

11/12/2016 03:13:24 pm

The idea of loss of innocence is important in the chapters narrated by the creature. This is where he learns how cruel life and the people in it can be. The way in which he learns this is very tough on him. Rather than having a parent or teacher figure to guide him into the world, he must do it on his own. The person that should have been responsible to teach him, his creator, abandoned him. By learning about the world on his own, the creature has no guidance or direction. He learns only through experience. This shows him only the negative and causes him to hate the world and his creator. 113

Sofia Kovalevskaya

11/12/2016 06:07:51 pm

In this case, I believe that scientific advancement is a great thing for Victor even though he didn’t receive the best outcome. This situation has taught him that maybe his love for knowledge was a little too extreme. His desire was to unlock the hidden secrets of nature, but when he completes his goal he realizes that it probably wasn’t the best thing to do. However, I feel that Victor needed this downfall in his life to learn from his mistakes. Growing up he hadn’t made many to help shape his future decisions, and this could possibly help him in his future to accept what he’s done, and possibly share his story with others so they could learn as well.
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Jane Colden

11/7/2016 06:41:02 am

These five chapters show the monster finding out about human emotions, and longing for them. One quote in the passage that typifies the section is at the end of chapter 13 when the monster talks about lessons he had learned from his encounter with the family in the cottage. He sees the bond between the family and wonders why he is missing that bond himself. He states "But where are my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses..." (Shelley 108). The monster lacks something that Victor has always had, the love and support of a stable family. He has had no warmth since he was "born". This, along with the fact that every other encounter with the human world has ended with some violence against him, has led the daemon to hate all creatures like his father, who had also turned him away. The final straw was when the monster was turned away from this wonderful family that he had learned so much about living from. It leads him to his first act of violence, which turned out to be Frankenstein's brother. Frankenstein was the trigger of the monsters actions because he did not take the time to nurture Frankenstein, which lead him to realize the harsh realities of the real world on his own. W.C 227 words

Anna Atkins

11/9/2016 08:04:46 am

Your analysis of that chapter raises the question of “what is the ethical relationship between creator and creation?” When we look at it the creature would not have hurt so many people if Victor hadn’t abandoned him. He did not take time to build a nurturing relationship between him and the creature leaving the creature to figure out things on his own. When the creature observe that wonderful family and how loving they were towards each other he wonders “where are my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses”(shelley 108). Victor did not provide the creature a loving and stable family which is what he wanted after observing that family. A creator should take time to build a loving relation between them and their creations.
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Sofia Kovalevskaya

11/12/2016 06:19:06 pm

In these chapters I find it amazing how the monster realizes that there’s a lack of emotional connection he isn’t receiving by looking at other people in the community. He understands that he’s missing an essential part of his life and is longing to find someone or something that can provide that for him. However, when he tries to accomplish this goal with a family he’d been watching for a while, and is denied, stereotypical monster characteristics occur. He relies on violence to express his frustration to his creator, and in my eyes, officially becomes a monster. After I finished reading these chapters I started to ask the question: What is a monster? Personally, I think physical traits aren’t essential characteristics of a monster. There’s personality, actions, thoughts, etc. that fundamentally make a real monster.
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Josephine Yates

11/13/2016 08:21:53 pm

Victor was previously incapable of realizing the effects of his actions when the monster was "born". He had always known the love and support of a stable family as you said. Having had that his whole life, he wouldn't have understood the impact that not having that love and support could have on someone. Once the creature really understood the extent of his own loneliness, it isn't surprising that he turned to violence. If he had had Victor in his life from the beginning to care for him and to be a positive influence, he would never have felt any inclination to turn to violence.
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Hannah Longshore

11/7/2016 05:07:16 pm

In these chapters, the creature is trying to figure out his life since Frankenstein has left him. Since he is alone, he is figuring out his life and his emotions. As readers, we can feel his struggle as he tries to comprehend what he is feeling and what is going on around him. As well as his troubles emotionally, he is also having troubles with his self-image. Evidence to this is, “I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers—their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions; but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bittersweet sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity.” (Shelley 102). This could be an example of the idea of when our ideals are realized. In the beginning chapters this essential question was used when Victor has realized what a monster he has created, now, the monster is now realizing himself. When observing the family being so kind to each other, he is basically stabbed in the heart because he feels so alone. He becomes connected to the family that he has been stalking, which then develops his emotions a little bit more, learning how to be interconnected.

Hannah Longshore

11/7/2016 05:08:38 pm

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Charlotte Knight

11/13/2016 08:23:53 pm

Personally I find these chapters from the creature’s point of view to be rather tragic as Frankenstein does the equivalent of abandoning a child by leaving the creature to himself and because of this the creature feels alone and internalizes his self-hatred due to his appearance. Thankfully he learns from the cottagers and begins to see them as his friends that he can admire from afar. These also mark the creature and Victor’s reunion with each other and the creature abhors Victor, and rightfully so! It’s because of his cowardice and lack of responsibility that caused the creature to be lost, starved for affection, and hateful towards himself. It’s as if Victor stabbed the creature in the heart, just as you said, which makes these chapters so gloomy.
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Mary Ward

11/13/2016 03:36:02 pm

In chapters 11-16 in the novel, the readers are able to see what kind of personality the monster has and what his true intentions are. He isn't the kind of monster that everyone runs away from. In fact, he's pretty sensitive, curious to learn, and caring. For example in chapter 12 the monster says, "The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me: when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathised in their joys,(Shelley 101). The monster becomes exposed to what the real world and he starts to understand what the human mind is like, but he then remembers that he's ugly and that he wouldn't be excepted by them due to his looks.The author incorporated these chapters to contrast Victor's views and what the monster is really like. The monster may be ugly and unattractive on the outside, but deep down he has an innocent and cary personality. The is the complete opposite with Victor because he seems to be quite attractive on the outside, but on the inside he's very judgemental and selfish. We also get a sense of the monster's intentions because clearly he doesn't mean any harm. Just like any living creature, he just wants to learn and be loved and that is what he lacks because no one would give him any chance. They become too startled by his horrendous looks to even give him a chance.

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Charlotte Knight

11/13/2016 08:08:01 pm

I completely agree with what you’ve said. In fact, it’s rather interesting that you find the creature and Frankenstein to be polar opposites of each other which does makes sense. I find it tragic to see the creature become so attached to these cottagers only to watch them run away like everyone else for the exact same reasons. But I’d like to this even further: Do you believe if Frankenstein were to become hateful towards humans for the way they have treated him, do you think he would be justified? I personally believe he would because no one should be denied love for something as petty as appearances.
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Ada Lovelace

11/13/2016 09:08:07 pm

With these chapters, Mary Shelly elaborates more on the thinking and state of the creature. It can be seen that although we know him as a "monster" or "ugly" creature, he has some human traits in him. As he says " ...finding myself so desolate/ I had covered myself with some clothes;/I was poor, helpless, miserable wretch/but feeling pain,...I sat and wept" (Shelley, 92). He feels abandoned, Isolated, and lonely which In my point of view, is due to the irresponsible behavior of the creator(Victor) because as long as he brought the creature into existence, he has to take good care of it. A connection of the feelings the creature that shows that he really is "human" but has a different appearance is that with a child for instance, when he or she left alone, he or she goes way-ward, feels helpless, and thinks there is no hope for him or her to achieve anything. But when loved, he or she develops an extraordinary character that gives him or her confidence and feel welcomed wherever he finds himself. Upon realizing that he looked different from the people he found himself with, and they leaving without his knowledge I felt sad about that because it looked like they took him for granted and after he helping them, they didn't appreciate maybe because he looked differently. But then again, I think all these emotional challenges he went through was meant to keep him strong, and make him realize that in order to be a "normal" being, you have to go through certain challenges to "fit in" and in order to be accepted by everyone, it is not really possible because being neglected shows you who to affiliate yourself with, and how to deal with certain circumstances you find yourself in.

Hannah Longshore

11/13/2016 09:51:52 pm

I really appreciated when you showed the difference between when someone is left alone and when someone feels loved. The descriptions really put it in a real life perspective and something that all of us could relate to. I feel that what you wrote really made a real world connection, which is why the book is still relevant today. In a psychology sense, this is a big debate between nature vs nurture. You state here that through experiences that the monster has, it makes him stronger and realize what he has in his life. However, people don't accept everyone and everyone is different. Everyone has their own definition of 'normal', but I like the fact that you know that being normal and fitting in isn't possible and your personality is sometimes contributed by the people that you're always around.

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