Frankenstein Case

Every human has feelings and desires to be loved. We all want someone to tell us that they love us. That we are the only thing they look forward to seeing in the morning when they awake. We just want someone to have affection for us. Don't we all? This doesn't just apply to humans. In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, the monster has many of the same characteristics as humans. A few of these include his eagerness to learn, his want for affection and his need for sympathy. Like every human the monster has feelings and desire to be loved. This futile craving to be accepted leads him to become very violent when he doesn't get what he wants. In the novel, Frankenstein, the monster wants sympathy and affection but is rejected by his own creator and turns to violence as to get the attention he so longingly wishes for.

The monster's horrifying behavior makes it troublesome for him to ever get sympathy or get any affection. The monster is not appreciated because of his evil doings and murders. He is very enraged "finding myself unsympathesized with, wished to tear up the tress, spread havoc and destruction around me" (111). This demonstrates that the monster is doing evil with all the rage that he can't hold inside. He wants affection and is going to do anything to get what he wants. Even if that means the monster has to kill someone.

Victor telling the monster that he his not going to make him a companion only makes the monster want affection more. The monster says having an equal companion would only make him happy. The monster claims, "my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in commune with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existence and events, from which I am now excluded" (121). He wants someone that he can live the rest of his life with and be content. He states that with a female monster companion he would run away and be happy and never hurt another being again.

Victor starts to make the monster a companion but believes that the monster has lied to him and he is only going to make the world an awful place if he makes another beast just as equal as the other. He is afraid that the monsters will take over the world and have offspring and that the world may not be able to defend itself against an army of monsters. Victor day dreams this because, while working on the female monster he looks up to see the monster watching him with the most wicked grin on his face. Victor sees this and assumes that the monster plans to do evil with the companion and destroys her body and then proceeds to throw her and the tools into the depths of the ocean. The monster gets very angry and then tells Victor that he will revenge him on his wedding day. His scares Victor because he doesn't want the monster to hurt Elizabeth. The date is very important because Victor is getting the one thing that no one can give the monster, a partner monster, that would be as equal in ugliness and in heart. Victor decides that this will be a good time to go after the monster before he gets away and hurt anymore of his friends or family.

Because of his actions he is denied any sympathy from Victor. This makes the monster really discombobulated: "Shall each man ... find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have a mate and I be alone" (140). He blames Victor for not making him a companion and then Victor wants