Comparing Frankenstein 'And Frozen'

Anya Rajghatta Whitt Honors English 10 22 October 2024 Appearances in Frankenstein The way one is perceived by others can often either benefit or inhibit them. An example of the former is the character Hans from the movie Frozen. Princess Anna assumes Hans must have good intentions in courting her because of his suave appearance and demeanor. In actuality, Hans only wants to marry Anna so that once he kills her sister, Queen Elsa, he can become king. His evil plans go unnoticed because of the innocent way he presents himself, which he uses to his advantage to trick Anna into trusting him. Conversely, Mary Shelley in the novel Frankenstein explores how assumptions about how looks can affect one negatively. In it, Shelley indirectly contrasts Victor and his creature’s view of the same events in order to
Frankenstein’s creation recounts that before he killed William, the “trait of kindness [moved] him sensibly” and he even “saved a human being from destruction” by rescuing a young girl from drowning (79, 101). When he first approaches William, he has good intentions of befriending a small child, who he believes to be unaffected by society’s prejudices against deformed beings, but William is horrified by the unnaturally large, disfigured creature and screams at him. He reveals that he is the son of M. Frankenstein, and, recognizing the name, the creature becomes overwhelmed with the urge to “carry despair to [Victor],” and ends up killing the boy (103). Frankenstein believes that the creature is inherently destructive and hateful because of his appearance, and while it is true that the creature shows himself to be violent and unreasonable by murdering an innocent child, those tendencies emerged due to his mistreatment by humanity, not as something innate. Thus, Frankenstein sees his creation’s brutality as something inevitable – the creature has no choice but to be evil because of his