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The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
As Mary Shelley crafts the story Frankenstein, she tells the tale of VIctor and the Creature. When looking at which of them deserves pity, there are many things to take into account. The Creature is more deserving of sympathy because he is an orphan, a lonely individual, and an intimidation.
As Victor becomes fascinated with the science of life, he dives into his studies and begins to work on the creature. Victor learns ways to create life, but once he has created the creature, he quickly realizes that he has made a mistake. Victor runs off in fear of the “monster” he has brought to life after two years of work. After the realization of being on his own set in, “the bitterness of [his] heart,”(350) occurs and the creature “curse[s]”(350)
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The creature must find a way to survive day to day life. The creature feels as if he is “unfortunate and deserted, “(357) because he has been left alone and orphaned from the start. When he was created and Victor ran out on him, he had to begin to learn how to do things on his own without anyone. As he continued to move along with life he felt very alone due to being the only thing of his kind and having no one that would want to be there for him.
Another reason the Creature deserves more sympathy is because he is uniquely alone. When the creature enters into the world he finds that he does not fit in with others, nor does he know how things are done. He has to go about with things by himself to figure out how things are done in the world around him, although there is not anything else like him in this world. The Creature must go and find somewhere to live and something to eat by himself even though he does not know anything about the world nor does anyone know anything about him. Although he is just looking for somewhere to go, he wanders through town just trying to figure out where to go, he scares the people in town and then after so much of the yelling from people in fear he

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