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How does Shelley
engender sympathy in the reader for the creature?
In Chapter 11, the monster tells his story so that Victor can see more than as a monster. The monster is revealed to be a gentle, benign creature in this chapter. He is fascinated by the world around him ["Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens...I gazed with a kind of wonder (Shelley 99)", "In my joy...that I might dry it and have a plentiful supply of fire (Shelley 100)" and "I was delighted when I first discovered a pleasant sound...but was unable (Shelley 99)".] and experiences feelings like coldness, warmth, pain, fear, pleasure and joy. He would even like to express his feelings intelligibly, yet he can't because of his garbled voice ["Sometimes I wished to express my sensations...frightened me into silence again (Shelley 99)"]. The people that the monster encounters run away from him although he never threatened them to begin with [''An old man sat in it...with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable (Shelley 101)" & "The whole village was roused...after the palaces I had beheld in the village (Shelley 101)".]. Additionally, he experiences human feelings of romantic admiration when he watches the mysterious, fair-haired girl ["...I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature...unable to bear these emotions (Shelley 103)".]. This instance especially demonstrates the monster's humanity. He can feel the human emotion that is most complex, love, which suggests that he is not as monstrous as he seems. However, the villagers and Frankenstein are judging him by his appearance instead of judging him by his character.
In the book Shelly creates sympathy by making the readers feel sorry for the monster’s abhorrent life by guiding the readers to accept the monsters actions. The readers accept the monster because of the way he is treated by others in a result to the way he was treated he act cruel and violent. Shelly also uses different writers to give different points of view to give readers different views to get readers to feel compassionate for the monster. Also she uses very descriptive language when describing the monster and his feelings. "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great god! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips(Shelly51).” The mind set and the monster’s environment is very striking.
In the beginning of Chapter 5, when Frankenstein describes his creation, the Monster, he is disgusted and horrified by it. "...and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room..." (Shelly 56). Shelly first introduces the Monster with descriptions which also makes a reader feel disgusted by it. Then in Chapter 11, the Monster is then again mentioned. The villagers are scared of him and also start to beat him. "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons,..." (Shelly 101). Shelly invokes empathy in the reader by describing how the people reacted to him. It makes a reader feel bad and sorry for the Monster because he he did not have a hand in what he looked like nor did he have a hand in how he was created. He was just beaten for trying to get some food.
Shelley creates sympathy for the creature by giving detailed background information on his history. One learns that he just feels abandoned and has real feelings just as a human being. One can see that the creature is very sensitive and has emotional wants and needs as well. In Chapter 11 the creature observes some near by cottagers through his hovel and wishes he had their bond and sense of unity.
Shelley induces sympathy in the reader for the monster by presenting him as the victim. Frankenstein’s creation is the victim of rejection, not only from Frankenstein but from others. Although, initially created for good, the monster gradually became evil because of the humans beings. In chapter 11, the monster tells his story to Frankenstein. Shelley builds sympathy by describing in detail how the villagers reacted towards the monster. "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons,..." (Shelly 105). He is only acting evil and violent because that’s the way he was treated. The monster is giving what he received. The story illustrates the his human emotions, revealing that he is not as much of a monster as he seems.
Shelley creates a sense of sympathy for us readers by letting us know the reason for Frankenstein creation. She informs us of his past and how he doesn't deal with rejection well in a way. So know by him being this monster he able to get what he wants because in a way he feels as if he deserves it based on his past and rejection that he has gotten.
Shelly inclines engender sympathy towards the reader by creating Frankenstein characteristics to be human-like. The creature wants to lure Victor to him. Grab his creator attention, wants to be recognized ,”I thought of pursuing the devil, but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south. He soon reached the summit and disappeared.”(Shelly, 74) Assisting the emotion of need for being recognized by Victor Frankenstein his creator, the reader endures how the creature the feels.
Shelly engenders sympathy in the reader for the monster by distinguishing the monster from humans. The monster is created as a sole being and therefore faces rejection not only from other humans but also from his creator, "Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art beyond by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us" (88). Futhermore, Shelly also induces sympathy in the the reader by providing justification for the monsters' evil deeds. The monster explains ,"the guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are to speak to in their own defense before they are condemned" (90), after which he continues to explain his tale. In general, readers generate sympathy for the monster because of the few human-like qualities that he possesses.
Shelley engenders empathy for the creature by telling the reader of the sadness and misfortunes the monster has gone through. " I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest away from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded." (Shelley 289) When reading about how the creator does not want his creation, and that it can not enjoy happiness, it can create emotions of sympathy from the reader. Also, Shelley evokes empathy for the creature by having something that is relatable some people. "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." (Shelley 286) People know how it feels to not be wanted, and to not be happy,and that creates sympathy from the readers.
Shelley shows sympatic twards the monsters because he says that the adored it and he say him self as a young man and he was saw the girl in a house and in are yard all in chaper 11 he must of really cared deeply for this person
Shelly provoked sympathy towards the monster by not only telling its story but showing it's emotions. I felt bad for the monster from the beginning because it was abandoned not even an hour after its life started. I saw that he was at a child-like state of curiosity at first because he put his hand in the fire not knowing that it would cause harm its like comparing him to a toddler running around and getting into trouble. People usually have someone to explain or protect them from what would hurt them. Shelly shows the creature as a true form of loneliness beyond his own control. He did not ask to be created and yet since his first breath all he has encountered is tragedy,
In the text, Shelley characterizes the monster as a lost soul desperately seeking affection or a form of understanding. Through the monster’s confusion she keenly engenders a sympathetic audience, for it is an appeal to emotion with the atmosphere of a tragedy. Another mode in which she garners compassion is with the teenage relevance to the monster’s emotional dilemma; often teenagers will experience the same patterns of feelings. A sense of abandonment, loneliness, and a lack of social acceptance common symptoms of the Finding-My-Way syndrome, it’s the monster against the world. As said in text: “The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked […]” (Shelley 164) the monster sentiments stem from the repulse he endures from society, is innate flaws are the trigger of their dismay thus highlighting the calamity of the situation. Frankenstein is a 19th century Stitch (Lilo and Stitch).
Shelly the author, engender sympathy in the reader for the creature by showing the readers what the creature been through and going through within the text. She also grant the creature human like qualities which shows that she cares enough to equalize it to a popular race of beings such as ourselves.
Shelly creates sympathy for the creature by showing and giving background information about the creature and his emotions. This gives the readers a sense of feeling sorry for the creature which in this case makes the creature more so of a victim. The creature does not like what he has become, he thinks that he's ugly.
Sympathy is created for the monster by Shelly showing insight to how his life has been since he left Frankenstein earlier in the story. On pg.89 the monster commands Frankenstein, "Be calm!... Have I not suffered enough that you seek to increase my misery?" This shows that the monster and Frankenstein both know that the monster has been through a lot since he has left Frankenstein's home. On pg.90 the monster goes on to tell Frankenstein about how miserable he is. This makes the audience feel sympathy for the creature and to want better for it. All the monster wants is for Frankenstein to hear him out, "Yet I ask you not to spare me: listen to me... (Shelly 90)"
Shelley engender's sympathy in the reader towards the creature, by portraying the monster as emotional and peaceful- in contrast to a typical monster. Shelley confirms the peaceful creature in juxtaposition to a devilish monster by lines such as "Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens...I gazed with a kind of wonder"(Shelley 99). From this quote we can conclude that the creature is gentle and Victor's perception of the creature is false, in fact the Monster is not a monster. Shelley conveys the creature more as down to earth and sensitive.
Shelley makes multiple attempts at invoking sympathy from readers for the creature. However one of the more primal examples can be discovered on page 101. "...but I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the children shrieked and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons" This quote automatically tugs on the heart strings of a reader, appealing to both morality and emotion. Before the creature could even make something of an introduction it was perceived as an evil entity due to it's gruesome appearance. Certainly, this would make anyone feel a terrible sense of exclusion and rejection, causing readers to be able to empathize, but for a creature with very little exposure to the world it had to be detrimental. Shelley manages to convey all of these thoughts to a reader in this simple sentence.
. Sympathy is created by shelly by making the readers feel bad for the "monster's" existence and by leading them to understand his violent and cruel actions it's because he was wrongfully characterized by his own creator. The language used when describing the physical appearance of Frankenstein and his feelings is very descriptive and emotional. readers sympathies him for his loneliness. in the book he is often compared to Adam, and Adam was condemned by God for his wrong doing when he ate the apple also he was a creation so was Frankenstein and they both were condemned by their creator.
Shelly created sympathy by simply portraying the creature as a prey/victim of Victor Frankenstein. In the text the creature says, "Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but i knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome..". Shelly wanted the readers to feel a sense of pity for the creature. She also wanted the readers to understand that the creature only portrayed a sense of hate because of its human form.
Shelly creates a sense of sympathy when Frankenstein abandons the monster. Shelly shows throughout the novel how the monster is being abandoned. In chapter 5 when the monster was first created , Frankenstein thought the monster was repulsive. Imagine a person doing that to a new born child , looking at it, being disgusted and abandoning and denying it. Shelly sympathizes throughout the novel and throughout the monster's journey.
In Chapter 11, the monster tells his story so that Victor can see more than as a monster. The monster is revealed to be a gentle, benign creature in this chapter. He is fascinated by the world around him ["Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens...I gazed with a kind of wonder (Shelley 99)", "In my joy...that I might dry it and have a plentiful supply of fire (Shelley 100)" and "I was delighted when I first discovered a pleasant sound...but was unable (Shelley 99)".] and experiences feelings like coldness, warmth, pain, fear, pleasure and joy. He would even like to express his feelings intelligibly, yet he can't because of his garbled voice ["Sometimes I wished to express my sensations...frightened me into silence again (Shelley 99)"]. The people that the monster encounters run away from him although he never threatened them to begin with [''An old man sat in it...with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable (Shelley 101)" & "The whole village was roused...after the palaces I had beheld in the village (Shelley 101)".]. Additionally, he experiences human feelings of romantic admiration when he watches the mysterious, fair-haired girl ["...I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature...unable to bear these emotions (Shelley 103)".]. This instance especially demonstrates the monster's humanity. He can feel the human emotion that is most complex, love, which suggests that he is not as monstrous as he seems. However, the villagers and Frankenstein are judging him by his appearance instead of judging him by his character.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Shelly creates sympathy by making the readers feel sorry for the monster’s abhorrent life by guiding the readers to accept the monsters actions. The readers accept the monster because of the way he is treated by others in a result to the way he was treated he act cruel and violent. Shelly also uses different writers to give different points of view to give readers different views to get readers to feel compassionate for the monster. Also she uses very descriptive language when describing the monster and his feelings. "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great god! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips(Shelly51).” The mind set and the monster’s environment is very striking.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of Chapter 5, when Frankenstein describes his creation, the Monster, he is disgusted and horrified by it. "...and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room..." (Shelly 56). Shelly first introduces the Monster with descriptions which also makes a reader feel disgusted by it. Then in Chapter 11, the Monster is then again mentioned. The villagers are scared of him and also start to beat him. "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons,..." (Shelly 101). Shelly invokes empathy in the reader by describing how the people reacted to him. It makes a reader feel bad and sorry for the Monster because he he did not have a hand in what he looked like nor did he have a hand in how he was created. He was just beaten for trying to get some food.
ReplyDeleteShelley creates sympathy for the creature by giving detailed background information on his history. One learns that he just feels abandoned and has real feelings just as a human being. One can see that the creature is very sensitive and has emotional wants and needs as well. In Chapter 11 the creature observes some near by cottagers through his hovel and wishes he had their bond and sense of unity.
ReplyDeleteShelley induces sympathy in the reader for the monster by presenting him as the victim. Frankenstein’s creation is the victim of rejection, not only from Frankenstein but from others. Although, initially created for good, the monster gradually became evil because of the humans beings. In chapter 11, the monster tells his story to Frankenstein. Shelley builds sympathy by describing in detail how the villagers reacted towards the monster. "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons,..." (Shelly 105). He is only acting evil and violent because that’s the way he was treated. The monster is giving what he received. The story illustrates the his human emotions, revealing that he is not as much of a monster as he seems.
ReplyDeleteShelley creates a sense of sympathy for us readers by letting us know the reason for Frankenstein creation. She informs us of his past and how he doesn't deal with rejection well in a way. So know by him being this monster he able to get what he wants because in a way he feels as if he deserves it based on his past and rejection that he has gotten.
ReplyDeleteShelly inclines engender sympathy towards the reader by creating Frankenstein characteristics to be human-like. The creature wants to lure Victor to him. Grab his creator attention, wants to be recognized ,”I thought of pursuing the devil, but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south. He soon reached the summit and disappeared.”(Shelly, 74) Assisting the emotion of need for being recognized by Victor Frankenstein his creator, the reader endures how the creature the feels.
ReplyDeleteShelly engenders sympathy in the reader for the monster by distinguishing the monster from humans. The monster is created as a sole being and therefore faces rejection not only from other humans but also from his creator, "Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art beyond by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us" (88). Futhermore, Shelly also induces sympathy in the the reader by providing justification for the monsters' evil deeds. The monster explains ,"the guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are to speak to in their own defense before they are condemned" (90), after which he continues to explain his tale. In general, readers generate sympathy for the monster because of the few human-like qualities that he possesses.
ReplyDeleteShelley engenders empathy for the creature by telling the reader of the sadness and misfortunes the monster has gone through. " I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest away from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded." (Shelley 289) When reading about how the creator does not want his creation, and that it can not enjoy happiness, it can create emotions of sympathy from the reader. Also, Shelley evokes empathy for the creature by having something that is relatable some people. "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." (Shelley 286) People know how it feels to not be wanted, and to not be happy,and that creates sympathy from the readers.
ReplyDeleteShelley shows sympatic twards the monsters because he says that the adored it and he say him self as a young man and he was saw the girl in a house and in are yard all in chaper 11 he must of really cared deeply for this person
ReplyDeleteShelly provoked sympathy towards the monster by not only telling its story but showing it's emotions. I felt bad for the monster from the beginning because it was abandoned not even an hour after its life started. I saw that he was at a child-like state of curiosity at first because he put his hand in the fire not knowing that it would cause harm its like comparing him to a toddler running around and getting into trouble. People usually have someone to explain or protect them from what would hurt them. Shelly shows the creature as a true form of loneliness beyond his own control. He did not ask to be created and yet since his first breath all he has encountered is tragedy,
ReplyDeleteIn the text, Shelley characterizes the monster as a lost soul desperately seeking affection or a form of understanding. Through the monster’s confusion she keenly engenders a sympathetic audience, for it is an appeal to emotion with the atmosphere of a tragedy. Another mode in which she garners compassion is with the teenage relevance to the monster’s emotional dilemma; often teenagers will experience the same patterns of feelings. A sense of abandonment, loneliness, and a lack of social acceptance common symptoms of the Finding-My-Way syndrome, it’s the monster against the world. As said in text: “The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked […]” (Shelley 164) the monster sentiments stem from the repulse he endures from society, is innate flaws are the trigger of their dismay thus highlighting the calamity of the situation. Frankenstein is a 19th century Stitch (Lilo and Stitch).
ReplyDeleteShelly the author, engender sympathy in the reader for the creature by showing the readers what the creature been through and going through within the text. She also grant the creature human like qualities which shows that she cares enough to equalize it to a popular race of beings such as ourselves.
ReplyDeleteShelly creates sympathy for the creature by showing and giving background information about the creature and his emotions. This gives the readers a sense of feeling sorry for the creature which in this case makes the creature more so of a victim. The creature does not like what he has become, he thinks that he's ugly.
ReplyDeleteSympathy is created for the monster by Shelly showing insight to how his life has been since he left Frankenstein earlier in the story. On pg.89 the monster commands Frankenstein, "Be calm!... Have I not suffered enough that you seek to increase my misery?" This shows that the monster and Frankenstein both know that the monster has been through a lot since he has left Frankenstein's home. On pg.90 the monster goes on to tell Frankenstein about how miserable he is. This makes the audience feel sympathy for the creature and to want better for it. All the monster wants is for Frankenstein to hear him out, "Yet I ask you not to spare me: listen to me... (Shelly 90)"
ReplyDeleteShelley engender's sympathy in the reader towards the creature, by portraying the monster as emotional and peaceful- in contrast to a typical monster. Shelley confirms the peaceful creature in juxtaposition to a devilish monster by lines such as "Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens...I gazed with a kind of wonder"(Shelley 99). From this quote we can conclude that the creature is gentle and Victor's perception of the creature is false, in fact the Monster is not a monster. Shelley conveys the creature more as down to earth and sensitive.
ReplyDeleteShelley makes multiple attempts at invoking sympathy from readers for the creature. However one of the more primal examples can be discovered on page 101. "...but I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the children shrieked and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons" This quote automatically tugs on the heart strings of a reader, appealing to both morality and emotion. Before the creature could even make something of an introduction it was perceived as an evil entity due to it's gruesome appearance. Certainly, this would make anyone feel a terrible sense of exclusion and rejection, causing readers to be able to empathize, but for a creature with very little exposure to the world it had to be detrimental. Shelley manages to convey all of these thoughts to a reader in this simple sentence.
ReplyDelete. Sympathy is created by shelly by making the readers feel bad for the "monster's" existence and by leading them to understand his violent and cruel actions it's because he was wrongfully characterized by his own creator. The language used when describing the physical appearance of Frankenstein and his feelings is very descriptive and emotional. readers sympathies him for his loneliness. in the book he is often compared to Adam, and Adam was condemned by God for his wrong doing when he ate the apple also he was a creation so was Frankenstein and they both were condemned by their creator.
ReplyDeleteShelly created sympathy by simply portraying the creature as a prey/victim of Victor Frankenstein. In the text the creature says, "Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but i knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome..". Shelly wanted the readers to feel a sense of pity for the creature. She also wanted the readers to understand that the creature only portrayed a sense of hate because of its human form.
ReplyDeleteShelly creates a sense of sympathy when Frankenstein abandons the monster. Shelly shows throughout the novel how the monster is being abandoned. In chapter 5 when the monster was first created , Frankenstein thought the monster was repulsive. Imagine a person doing that to a new born child , looking at it, being disgusted and abandoning and denying it. Shelly sympathizes throughout the novel and throughout the monster's journey.
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