Frankenstein Judgement Of Man Analysis

The Judgements of Man Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a fiction monster story. This story is a frame story and with it comes many themes. One remains true throughout the story and even to this day is do not judge a book by its cover. This theme is scene through the reaction of Victor Frankenstein, the DeLacey family, the children, and Robert Walton to the monster. When Victor Frankenstein made the monster his first reaction was “Beautiful! – Great God!” (35). In this moment he was proud and then disgusted in the same instant. He saw how awful the monster looked and ran to get away from him. On further reading we find out the monster was ready to be good and loving to everyone if Victor accepted and loved him. Victor chose not to and sent the
The monster stumbles across it, a little after he was first created. He watched the DeLacey family and learned how to read and talk. He also observed that they seemed sad so he assumed that it was because they had too much to do that they could not spend enough time together. He took it upon himself to do the chores and housework for them without them knowing so they could spend all their time together. His motive behind this was that if he did enough good for them they would look past what he looks like and accept him for who he is. He begins to plan on how he is going to do it. He is going to approach the blind DeLacey, so there is absolutely no bias. He wants to convince the blind DeLacey that he is good and in turn he will convince the children that the monster is good. He realizes that he will have to talk to him so he practices his speech long and hard in preparation. When he finally goes to talk to the blind DeLacey, Felix, his son, walks in and is disgusted, hits the monster with a stick, and drives him away (96-97). The monster realized that no matter how much good you do, people will always judge based off