Topic > The Benevolence of Frankenstein's Monster - 853

After his creation, Frankenstein's monster is left in isolation, condemned to endure people's hatred towards him. This revulsion faced by viewers is simply based on the creature's hideous appearance. The monster is actually not a monster at all. He shows more humanity than many of the other Frankenstein characters. The final irony is that the prejudicial belief is what caused the reanimated human to become a monster. In the nature versus nurture debate, proponents of the nature theory believe that a person is immutable and that his or her experiences do not influence that person's behavior. If this were true, the monster would not change due to its interactions with humans. It is undeniable that the creature does immoral things, but when Frankenstein's monster saves a little girl from drowning, Mary Shelley takes a clear stand that the creature was naturally noble but became monstrous as a result of interactions with humans. Education involves all environmental stimuli that can shape a creature. Shelley uses the monster's bliss in an environment devoid of humans to demonstrate that the monster only gets angry as a response to humans. While the monster was on his way to Geneva, contrary to his previous mood, he was truly happy. “…the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered me too with the beauty of the sun and the balm of the air (Shelley 142).” He uses the words "he too" to show that his happiness is surprising due to his unpleasant memories with humans. It is a "Spring" day, which usually represents rebirth. The monster has literally been reborn before, but in this case the emotions of “sweetness and pleasure,” which he thought were dead, have returned to him (142). This allowed him to forget his “loneliness… middle of paper… “gentleness” and “gentleness,” and after the shot he has “infernal rage” and “gnashing of teeth.” Before the violent diction was used to describe the man's action, but after the shot it is used to describe the monster's feelings. This altercation pushed the monster beyond humanity's acceptance threshold and thus caused the reanimated human to become the monster. The juxtaposition between the monster's happiness and deep desperation is separated chronologically only by the man who shot him. It is obvious that there is a cause and effect relationship between the shooting and the monster's hatred for humanity. This hatred for humanity cannot be explained by nature because it contradicts the monster who saves the little girl. Since education is about external stimuli that shape a person, one can directly conclude that monstrous behavior is the result of human interaction..