The Existence Of Good And Evil In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Existence of Good and Evil
Since the time of The Bible and the creation of Adam and Eve, good and evil has existed in man. For example, in Mary Shelly novel, Frankenstein, the creature tells us that “is man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appears at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.” He is questioning the existence of good and evil in all men. How can a person be good and bad at the same time? In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the creature experience and proves how both good and evil exists in man.
The creature represents evil because of the unequal treatment from other people and from the rejection …show more content…
He becomes obsess with the idea of bringing people back to life. He works on that for months and finally it is done. He has done it, his creature lives. But after that he gets scare and runs away, so he abandons his creation. Then he refuses to help Justine, who was charged with killing William. He doesn’t confess the truth because he is afraid of what others will think of him for creating the monster. Victor wants revenge; he wants to kill the creature for killing his little brother. It was Victor’s fault because at first he was a good person, trying to make life better for others by coming up with a solution of bringing dead people back to life, but at the end everything went wrong. Victor, instead of abandoning the creature, he should of stay with him to teach him morals and help him adjust to society. Because of all these rejections the creature was fully justified in his feelings. “All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”(pg.86). The monster tells Victor that he didn’t chose to be created, that why, if he was his creator, did he abandon him when he needed him the most? Now the creature is full of anger, hate and all he wants is revenge. Even though Victor created the monster with good intentions, Victor
Since the time of The Bible and the creation of Adam and Eve, good and evil has existed in man. For example, in Mary Shelly novel, Frankenstein, the creature tells us that “is man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appears at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.” He is questioning the existence of good and evil in all men. How can a person be good and bad at the same time? In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the creature experience and proves how both good and evil exists in man.
The creature represents evil because of the unequal treatment from other people and from the rejection …show more content…
He becomes obsess with the idea of bringing people back to life. He works on that for months and finally it is done. He has done it, his creature lives. But after that he gets scare and runs away, so he abandons his creation. Then he refuses to help Justine, who was charged with killing William. He doesn’t confess the truth because he is afraid of what others will think of him for creating the monster. Victor wants revenge; he wants to kill the creature for killing his little brother. It was Victor’s fault because at first he was a good person, trying to make life better for others by coming up with a solution of bringing dead people back to life, but at the end everything went wrong. Victor, instead of abandoning the creature, he should of stay with him to teach him morals and help him adjust to society. Because of all these rejections the creature was fully justified in his feelings. “All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”(pg.86). The monster tells Victor that he didn’t chose to be created, that why, if he was his creator, did he abandon him when he needed him the most? Now the creature is full of anger, hate and all he wants is revenge. Even though Victor created the monster with good intentions, Victor