Sympathy for the Monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley :: essays research papers

In this essay I am going to answer how and why does Mary Shelley make the reader sympathise with the character of the fanatic in her novel Frankenstein. Many readers construct sympathised with Frankensteins creation, the unnamed whale, because he is badly treated by most people who he comes across. original created the hellion with dead body parts that he got though grave robbing once he got all of the parts it took him 2 years to build a body. Victor is very obsessed with his work because he would not let any one help him or see him his fiance is very worried he might be doing something he would regret. When victor brings the monster to life he soon realises that he has made a big mistake because he says What have I done? this tells us that Victor has pride in his work at first but and then it quickly turns to disbelief then he becomes terrified he leaves the monster and goes to his home in Geneva. The monster soon realises that he has been abando ned (I think that Mary has put in her novel him getting abandoned because her father abandoned her because he didnt like the person who she was going to get married to) so he sets of to see what the world has to offer. As the monster comes across a village that has just been outrun with a deadly disease called colleria so when the villages see him they think that he brought it in and they beat. He turns to find Victor and make him pay for bring him back ugly. The monster finds a place to hide from all the people and he helps out a family by helping them with their farm work and he learns to read and write. In the family there is a blind man the monster is very protective everywhere the blind man and the man come for the tax on the house where they live and he beats the blind man up but then the monster beats up the tax man and the little girl with the blind man screams and the mum and dad hears meanwhile the blind man and the monster