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    In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly‚ the character by the name “the creature” responds in a significant way to injustice. He is brought into a world that treats people based on appearance‚ and his creator‚ Victor‚ had made him hideous.Mostly in all schools they teach young kids to “not base a book by its cover”‚ meaning do not assume negative/positive thoughts about a person just based on their looks. The creature was born without having someone to watch after him‚ and this affected the way

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    The Alienation of Victor Frankenstein and Dr. John Faustus Victor Frankenstein and John Faustus are two characters that are alienated because of their intellectual curiosity. Faustus’s and Frankenstein’s pursuits of knowledge begin with an inexorable journey to their downfalls as they become alienated. Both characters attempt to exceed human ability and are alienated from God because of their attempts. These men are concerned with the secrets of nature and are ultimately alienated from the world

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    Victor Frankenstein and the Monster he created are very similar in many different ways. It all starts out with Victor starting to study the dark science‚ so he can create a monster to be like himself. While he is making this monster‚ he doesn’t realize how ugly and scary it was coming out to be. Victor makes the monster so ugly it causes him to abandon him and sends him away. It is just like what happened to Victor from his own creator‚ which was his father who had abandoned him when he was a

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    In Frankenstein‚ the creature does not become evil until his creator and the human race rejects him. Mary Shelley’s book focuses on a scientist who creates a creature who is evil in the eyes of humanity. Mr. Frankenstein creates a being that is ugly‚ vile and a huge ogre in size. He is a wretch that when people see him faint and pass out. The story’s climax comes when the creature’s creator refuses to make another creature like him. The scientist knows that if he makes a second creature it could

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    another human being. It could be argued that Victor Frankenstein acted negligently and is responsible for the deaths of the monster he created. However‚ just because Victor Frankenstein created the monster does not necessarily mean he is responsible for the monsters actions. Victor Frankenstein did not create the monster with the intention to harm or kill another human being. The monster acted on his own free will. Even though Frankenstein created the creature by “collecting bones from charnel houses;

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    Frankenstein Essay: Victor made the right decision when he told his creature that he would promise to create him a female creature so he could be happy. This decision was definitely a great one‚ due to the fact that the creature will possibly happy instead of being upset about everything. But there could be some major upsets for doing this for the creature‚ because‚ once a killer always a killer. The 3 reasons why I think he made a right decision will be the following. First‚ if the creature has

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    Victor Frankenstein could have changed the outcome of the story of drastically. If he would have not ran away when he first created the creature the story would have been completely different. Now the creature may have never been accepted by society but at least it wouldn’t have killed all of his family then eventually him. If Victor would have cared for the creature and helped him to understand people and to get along with people then society may have accepted him and got along with him. This could

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    A creature‚ born from a scientific experiment‚ becomes estranged in a world where such beings do not exist. Walking the path‚ down a road filled with fearful glances‚ Frankenstein is unable to enjoy life like the humans. Due to this lack of symmetry between two distinct beings‚ Frankenstein plays the role similar to that of Milton’s Satan as he attempts to create a connection using the built up emotions from each form of rejection. Directly resulting from this attempt‚ any signs of hubris fade from

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    pursuit. The immortality power that these select few have‚ of course‚ only provided to encourage those who come after. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary reflection upon this intensely human desire here illustrated by the title character’s quest for personal glory by means of scientific discovery. Moreover‚ both Victor Frankenstein and the Arctic explorer Robert Walton‚ whose letters open the novel‚ hold a greedy thirst for privileged knowledge of those things that are unknown

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    book “Frankenstein”‚ explains how he creates the creature and the ideas that lead him to his creation. In the beginning of chapter 4‚ it made it pretty obvious that Frankenstein was interested in the idea of dead people. For example‚ Frankenstein stated that “to examine the causes of life‚ we must first have to recourse to death‚”(Shelley 18). This proves to show that Frankenstein was already planning on making his creature apart of death. Another process that Frankenstein used to construct his creature

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