Saturday, November 2, 2013
Is This Love?
"...I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature...and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions (Shelley 103)". The monster seems to have a crush on this mysterious girl. However, other characters like Victor may think this strange, considering that he is not a human being, and therefore, cannot possibly have human feelings. What do you think Shelley has conveyed about the monster by including this "crush"? What does this say about the monster's character?
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@Derrione Mobley The crush from the moster symbolizes "humanity". The monster was given human like features such as feet, ears and ears but what about human qualities. It is not indicated until this point in which we can agree that the moster had to aquire them. It proves that non human things can gain human things, something that has not been done before. Also this may foreshawdow that the monster is tranforming based on its chracter and will conflict heavily with Victor and others over the girl.
ReplyDelete@Derrione Mobley- Shelley conveys that the monster in fact has a heart- a heart filled with emotions just as humans have. On the outside it does look monstrous, however Victor has not yet discovered the monster's inner self. Victor is just basing his evidence off of appearance. It seems possible for a Monster to have emotions considering Animals/Beastly Animals have them and are not human. It also seems possible for the monster to love (the monster did ask victor for a companion) considering that everything living needs a form of love and care to survive. What this says about the Monsters character is that, it is caring, dependent, emotional, and sensitive just as a human is.
ReplyDelete@Derrione Mobley- Shelly is attempting to humanize the character to enable Frankenstein relatable to readers. It also shows the that presumed "monster" only wants love." How can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favorable eye upon thy creature , who implores thy goodness and compassion." Frankenstein here can be seen as a longing youth craving love and attention. This situation and others show that Frankenstein is not a true monster but a victim who has been outcaste in society.
ReplyDeleteShelley seems to develop a humane attitude for Frankenstein. This attitude of love is natural for all forms of "life". What Shelley makes interesting is by giving a natural affect to something that is extremely unnatural. This contrast makes a beautiful effect for the novel, which in turn spikes interest for the audience. This excerpt states that the monster is a learner, and is able to adapt easily. We can say that the Monster learned this emotion from his master Frankenstein, who continuously expresses his love throughout the novel over Elizabeth Lavenza. With Frankenstein's description about his love becoming vivid each line,"a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks" (Shelley 6) the Monster could be slyly picking up the ideas and elements of love.
ReplyDeleteShelley has conveyed that the monster contains more human qualities than one could have imagined. Many fear this creature but little do they know that they share common emotional wants and needs. She has expressed that the monster has true feelings and emotions as seen earlier when the creature experiences sadness due to the abandonment by his creator. The development of this crush shows that the monster's character is really kind at heart.
ReplyDeleteShelley is adding a form of personality and human aspects to the monster. It could be visualized as an actual form of personification, seeing as though the monster isn't actually human but is showing signs of human like traits such as developing a "crush" on this mysterious girl. It just proves to say that the monster is more life like then the people assume him to be. Seeing as though he was created how would he have learned to develop such feelings, or were they a natural occurance?
ReplyDeleteShelley has convey that the monster have all the human characteristic by using impersonal. . Shelley expressed in the previous chapters that the monster actually being introduced into a lot of feeling such as being cold, warm, hunger, thirst, loneliness, sadness etc....However, Love is not yet appears. Even though ,Victor and others may think it is very entertain for a monster, a failure product to have a "crush" on a mysterious girl. To Shelley, it is a resembled way to introduce a new characteristic that the monster should have since it has a lot of interaction with human
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Through the text, it is clear that Shelley creates a heavy sense of irony. The audience knows Frankenstein's creation to be a monster, however the creature is of humane qualities which ultimately contradicts the essence of a monstrosity; this just may prove that the monster is in fact human because of the negative and positive traits it bears. Another point I might add is that the definition of a monster often coincides with physique and not so much personality, in the this context the word: "monster" is in proximity to appearance. Shelly may also use the concept of a monster to distract her readership from realizing the creature's ties to human nature. Could it be that there is an innate human quality in all sentient creatures? The character Stitch from the film: "Lilo and Stitch" shares a similar situation as Frankenstein's monster did:
1. Both were born into ignorance, unknowing of their purpose.
2. Both struggled in adapting to society.
3. Both exhibited signs of human nature.
Shelley conveys that the monster have human qualities and a heart that's filled with all types of emotions. Many feel that this monster is different from them but it share a lot of similar qualities that human do. This says that the monster has feelings just as humans do and that this monster is more life than people assume it is.
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