The Superiority Of Human Being In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
“Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?” The monster of Frankenstein gives the last human he meets in its life this inquiry. This being is born as a devil and his life is fulfilled by misfortune. Its dreams are all ruthlessly shattered by these humans he once trusted, especially his creator. It seems that all tragedies of this monster are caused by its appearance. Because of its appearance, people exclude it, detest it and afraid of it. It's true that the being's ugliness brings it much prejudice, however, the essential reason of its misfortune is that people see it as a non-human creature. The being is thought as something inferior by the xenophobic mankind all the time. Therefore, the being is always
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This egocentric is ingrained in human nature that they even despise other groups inside their own species. People always define their own group as “good” and define others as bad and untouchable. Nietzsche has once described this human psychology: “to this rule that a concept denoting political superiority always resolves itself into a concept denoting superiority of soul … that only here did the human soul in a higher sense acquire depth and become evil---and these are the two basic respects in which man has hitherto been superior to other beasts!” Nietzsche thinks that this kind of egocentricity and its development is what makes human better. This mentality is so important to human that to Nietzsche most human morality comes from it: "…every noble moral morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is ‘outside’ …” The sense of self-affirmation or xenophobia establishes the base of human morality and the human morality determines how we think to a great extent. Hence it is not excessive to say that we are deeply ingrained by the thought of egocentricity. This phenomenon is already so severe inside human species that there is even no huge difference, when people encounter another being, like the monster of Frankenstein, that they don’t even think it as their own species indeed, there is no need to say how this xenophobic feeling would
This egocentric is ingrained in human nature that they even despise other groups inside their own species. People always define their own group as “good” and define others as bad and untouchable. Nietzsche has once described this human psychology: “to this rule that a concept denoting political superiority always resolves itself into a concept denoting superiority of soul … that only here did the human soul in a higher sense acquire depth and become evil---and these are the two basic respects in which man has hitherto been superior to other beasts!” Nietzsche thinks that this kind of egocentricity and its development is what makes human better. This mentality is so important to human that to Nietzsche most human morality comes from it: "…every noble moral morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is ‘outside’ …” The sense of self-affirmation or xenophobia establishes the base of human morality and the human morality determines how we think to a great extent. Hence it is not excessive to say that we are deeply ingrained by the thought of egocentricity. This phenomenon is already so severe inside human species that there is even no huge difference, when people encounter another being, like the monster of Frankenstein, that they don’t even think it as their own species indeed, there is no need to say how this xenophobic feeling would