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What would you say about the reactions motivation and emotions of victors creation

2007-03-01 02:43:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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Total Confusion... a lost soul coming to realize that his human body was put together from different parts, instead of developing naturally, in search of his place in life...
Believe it or not , but, I can relate to "Frank".

2007-03-01 02:57:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I have found 7 summaries for you to look at, via the links below.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-112.html

http://antistudy.com/search.php?title=Frankenstein

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/Frankenstein.html#Top

These links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary.

The novel begins with explorer Robert Walton looking for a new passage from Russia to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. After weeks as sea, the crew of Walton’s ship finds an emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, floating on an ice flow near death. In Walton’s series of letters to his sister in England, he retells Victor’s tragic story. More……

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-112,pageNum-4.html

Good luck.

2007-03-01 13:30:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I would say that his emotions and his thought are profoundly influenced by the knowledge that his appearance horrifies everyone. This is the key to all he feels. He has kindly feelings for people, values family connections, and wishes to be helpful to others but these sentiments are poisoned by the awareness that the moment someone catches a glimpse of him they are appalled. He reasons, with justice, that he is not to blame for his appearance--the result of a scientific experiment to which his consent was not asked-- and that people are unfair in judging him entirely by the way he looks, a misshapen, towering figure. He envies the family he comes to know as a servant, without their seeing him, but turns on the child the moment he and all his previous kindness are rejected. He would like nothing better than to have a wife, shaped like himself, but Victor, who regrets having created one monster, is not about to give him a mate. He is filled with rage for his creator. And so the creature's feelings turn to revenge and destruction. This can be read partly as a comment on how the way we are treated influences how we treat others. For Mary Shelley, like her entire family, had reformist and indeed revolutionary ideas about the human condition. At the conclusion, the creature evades Victor, who wishes to bring his life to an end, and disappears into the wintry wastes of the Arctic, for he wishes to have nothing more to do with human beings. You could think about Lemuel Gulliver, who, placed in the land of the yahoos and the horses in the fourth book of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," despises the yahoos, whom he resmbles, for they are coarse creatures, and admires the horses, who embody sanity and high reason. Mary Shelley's creature could, except for his strange appearance, have been a good, loving family man, but people, who are guided by their instinctive abhorrence of him, will not allow him to develop a life of his own in their midst.

2007-03-01 11:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by tirumalai 4 · 0 0

The monster's motivations come primarily from his sense of rejection and abandonment. From the moment of his "birth," he watched his creator flee from him. Then he read in Paradise Lost how Man was created in God's image, and God welcomed his creation into Paradise. The monster never had that chance to live as the most honored creation of his maker. He faced rejection from the one man who should have lovingly welcomed him into the world. He was then feared and attacked by the family he came to care about, watching them from afar. Though he tried to help them and in doing so find his place in the world, they too looked at him as a monster and turned from him in horror. Thus the monster is dejected, lonely, and plagued by a sense of inadequacy. He cannot fit into the world, he cannot even find a single person or creature to share his life with. He is utterly alone, and it's that sense of rejection that drives him to evil.

2007-03-01 13:23:19 · answer #4 · answered by ap1188 5 · 0 0

He just wanted to be loved. To be part of a family. To be accepted. To be understood. He was completely alone in the world. Rejected and scorned by everyone. His rejection by his creator scarred his creation--he wanted, needed unconditional love and guidance.

2007-03-01 11:36:19 · answer #5 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0 0

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