Frankenstien
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While describing the story Frankenstein Percy Shelley wrote “ Treat a person ill, and he will become wicked.” (Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination p.3). In Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein discrimination plays a large role. The theme has a lot to do with appearance and your acceptance in society. Weather the color of your skin, religion, or just the way you look alienation is all around us. In the Novel Victor Frankenstein creates a so called monster who is outcasted from society because of his looks. The book shows the real way society outcast people who are different from the rest. All anyone wants is to be accepted by society, the discrimination in Frankenstein is like the everyday discrimination in America today. Frankenstein, is the story of a young scientist, “Dr. Victor Frankenstein becomes
enslaved to the idea of reanimating the dead, spending years in a manic frenzy of
scientific study and creation. But once his monster lives, Frankenstein is so horrified by
the ugliness of "the demoniacal corpse" that he abandons it, never imagining that they
will meet again in murderous circumstances.”(Ebsco, Allison) He creates a Being, he
refers to him as a monster because of his distorted outer appearance; and leaves him
"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and
continued a long time traversing my bedroom chamber, unable to compose my mind to
sleep."(1.3.5) this quote shows that Frankenstein could not even bear to look at what he
created because of his disfigure.
The “monster” is left alone and wonders around the world. He is excluded from society because the humans only see his outside apperance, and also think he is a monster. The so called monster in the novel is made to seem like a mindless wanderer. He Spivey 2
While describing the story Frankenstein Percy Shelley wrote “ Treat a person ill, and he will become wicked.” (Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination p.3). In Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein discrimination plays a large role. The theme has a lot to do with appearance and your acceptance in society. Weather the color of your skin, religion, or just the way you look alienation is all around us. In the Novel Victor Frankenstein creates a so called monster who is outcasted from society because of his looks. The book shows the real way society outcast people who are different from the rest. All anyone wants is to be accepted by society, the discrimination in Frankenstein is like the everyday discrimination in America today. Frankenstein, is the story of a young scientist, “Dr. Victor Frankenstein becomes
enslaved to the idea of reanimating the dead, spending years in a manic frenzy of
scientific study and creation. But once his monster lives, Frankenstein is so horrified by
the ugliness of "the demoniacal corpse" that he abandons it, never imagining that they
will meet again in murderous circumstances.”(Ebsco, Allison) He creates a Being, he
refers to him as a monster because of his distorted outer appearance; and leaves him
"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and
continued a long time traversing my bedroom chamber, unable to compose my mind to
sleep."(1.3.5) this quote shows that Frankenstein could not even bear to look at what he
created because of his disfigure.
The “monster” is left alone and wonders around the world. He is excluded from society because the humans only see his outside apperance, and also think he is a monster. The so called monster in the novel is made to seem like a mindless wanderer. He Spivey 2