Compare And Contrast Frankenstein And Martin Bryant

If society creates monsters then what are we
The year 1996 in The town of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, A 28 year old man named Martin Bryant started a killing spree. The massacre ended with the death of 35 men, women, and children, and 18 more severely wounded. Society is easy to blame at first glance, though there are always more complex issues at play. Martin Bryant was born into a fairly good family, unfortunately their parenting style soon became a struggle of trying to force Martin to be “normal”. Martin Bryant is proof that Society did not cause Frankenstein's creature to become a monster, it was his lack of an upbringing that caused him to kill.

Frankenstein’s creature came into the world as an intelligent adult, but knowledge does not teach you how to deal with your emotions, experience does
and the creature had none. The creature had no idea how to treat the people around him, but Society is not responsible for creating a monster sometimes it's luck of the draw(people are born psycho) and often, our coming up is to blame. Blaming society for creating monsters is a weak argument that uses society as some sort of scapegoat. Obviously Martin had a little of both the psychotic and parenting issues and Frankenstein’s creature absolutely had the parenting issue but is Victor Frankenstein completely to blame? As children when we go to school and someone is mean to us our parents tell us to ignore them, they’re just rude or that being mean is their way of getting through their own problems. Our lives are filled with these lessons we experience that teach us how to deal with people and eventually make us ready for the real world. Frankenstein’s creature was thrown into the real world as an adult and people treated him like an adult, they were blatantly mean to him and because he had no idea how to deal with his emotions he lashed out like 7 foot tall toddler throwing a tantrum, but the random people who rejected him were not to blame, it was Victor Frankenstein, who caused his own creation to hurt others by neglecting him and even Frankenstein blamed himself, “I dreaded to behold this monster.” (38)

Frankenstein’s creature was very different from Martin Bryant but they had a few major similarities.
Children in school didn't like Bryant and he often claimed they were bullying him and at first glance it would seem that society was to blame. As it turns out, like Frankenstein's creature they were scared of Martin, not for the same reason they were scared of Frankenstein's creature but regardless, their cruelty stemmed from fear. Martins iffy upbringing and the creature’s complete absence of one resulted in both of them responsible for the murders of innocent people. While martin never had a chance, frankenstein did, yes society was the last straw, but we all live in society and the majority of us don't murder so the idea that society creates a monster would make all of us a monster and yes we all have major problems whether we admit or even acknowledge them, they are definitely there. They don't make us monsters, There is always more at play, people are complex and there is never just one reason for our becoming a monster, though in Frankenstein's creatures case the major issue put in simple words was his lack of preparation for society, not society
itself.

Work Cited

Biography.com Editors Martin Bryant Biography The Biography.com website A&E Television Networks November 5, 2015

jasonsconnection.org N/A 2013 Jason's Connection

Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818