What we dislike the most in others is where our personal Frankenstein resides?

Question

What do you think?

The outside is just a mere reflection of our inner core, so clean, you can see yourself as if in a mirror.

For those who do not get the idea:

If we dislike cruelty is because we are cruel...

Answer 1

Possibly. Sometimes others are just annoying though.

Answer 2

Poetic. But untrue. Certainly there are some things that we see in others that we dislike that are part of our own makeup. Maybe even dislike to a great degree. However, to say that what we dislike MOST is what is within ourselves doesn't really hold the truth. What we dislike the most are usually those things that we truly don't understand. Like for me, it is cruelty. I've never been cruel, the thought of it makes me sick, it is the worst possible trait that I can see in another person. If someone has a mean streak even, I'm totally not interested in getting to know more about them. And the reason is because it is so negative and so foreign to me that it is frightening on a level.

Answer 3

Perhaps we have the potential for anything, so in that sense seeing something 'outside' is a reflection of what is within. And perhaps if we've dealt with and tamed these inner potentials by force then we merely dislike it when we see it in another as opposed to having mastered these things through understanding, without force. But this is all pretty deep, so on a surface level I would say that if we dislike something in another, that we aren't necessarily hypocritical and doing the same thing that we dislike. But on a deeper level there is a connection to ourselves.

Answer 4

I think somebody has not read the book Frankenstein. Frankenstein is the doctor and not the monster. The monster was a creation of the doctor's when he wanted to end death forever. Victor's intentions were to create a person who would not die. He was disgusted with his results and refused to make another one of them. That is why the monster turned on Frankenstein. The monster wanted a mate. So here is something you could have seen if you wanted to. Frankenstein is God and God created Adam and not an Eve so Adam wants to make God suffer for Adam's loneliness. The story is actually a about a woman wanting to avoid a second miscarriage. Shelley had just recovered from her first miscarriage and her husband was after her to have a child and she did not want to go through the emotional pain of another miscarriage. Her monster is her wanting to have a child and not being able to. She does not want to go through that twice.

The story has very little to do with appearances and so much to do with the personal desire to live forever, and for we mortals that means having children, and hoping that they are better than we are.

Answer 5

I disagree because we choose what to be. I don't like cruelty in others because I was raised by a cruel parent. That also means I have the capacity for being cruel because it was being taught to me however, I chose not to be nor do I like to see it in others - just as I didn't like to see it in my parent.

Does that then mean because I dislike liars - I am a liar? Or if I dislike fanatics - I am a fanatic? Or, selfish - or egotistical - or grandiose - or narcissistic - or lazy - or religious - or shallow, etc., etc., etc.

Sorry but your reasoning - is STILL flawed because we're known more by our actions than our words. If my actions aren't of a cruel nature, I then, am NOT cruel.

Answer 6

I do not think that this statement holds good. One need not be cruel to identify or dislike cruelty.

There is lot of extremism and cruelty around us and many of us dislike that cruelty of killing innocents. Does it mean that whoever is disliking extremism is cruel in mind. no.. not all...

Answer 7

Are you referring to the monster as Frankenstein or the doctor? People always get that mixed up, and I wish I knew on this question.

I'll guess monster, just because. Yes, I think we often dislike a person's small habits when they resemble our own. As for not liking the whole person, I think we judge them by a pretty good standard of instinct mixed with experience. From that viewpoint we can call the shot pretty well if we're old enough,
though folks still often surprise, don't they?

That's what I think and I'm stickin' to it!

Answer 8

Is a yes or no answer. Most liars would say others are liars to cover themselves up. On the other hand most honest people dislike liars. However, liars tend to lack of trust on others whereas honest people tend to trust other more.

Answer 9

Yes i belive this.....what we hate the most is actually apart of us.....if there was such a thing as split personaility in everyone then the things that we dislike will reside in one and our normal selves will be another

Answer 10

I think we can dislike traits in others to the point where we assimilate the very characteristics we loathe.

Answer 11

This is a matter of personal choice, I strongly believe.