Lady Macbeth Character Analysis
Why do readers feel sometimes extreme sorrow for the negative characters in a novel? It’s not their fault that the main character made a mistake and ended up ruining their life. Sometimes the characters deserve what’s coming to them, depending on the magnitude of their blunder. There’s no need to give pity to those who bring pain upon themselves; nobody pities a serial killer, yet in Frankenstein, the creature, which is in essence a serial killer, is given sympathy by the viewer and it doesn’t seem logical. In Macbeth, the reader gives compassion out to both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth for the grief they give themselves, while they kill people and feel terrible upon realizing their own actions. Even though the characters in these pieces of literature
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Right and wrong, lawful and unjust, natural and unordinary. This is a duty of the mother, to care for and explain the ways of life to the child. Wouldn’t that theory also apply to Victor and his creation? In the situation he was in, yes, it would have. He created and was responsible for this child-minded scary creature, yet he decided instead of trying to teach it, to flee and hope for the best. Sure, in horror biology, the fight or flight response is triggered by the fearful event, and then adrenaline and cortisol are released, and that is a natural instinct (Asma). Victor takes this natural response to the extreme; after he wakes up to see the creature in his room, he flees and doesn’t really bother with where the monster went off to. This leads to the creature going off on his own, as we learn when the creature is telling his side, and figuring out the world and how it works. As the creature goes along with learning basic survival skills, he learns how cruel humans can be, and develops a hatred. This could have all been avoided if Victor had tried to take responsibility for what he created and either taught it or destroy its existence. The responsibility of a creator of life is simple; control it, or remove its danger. Victor let his monster go, and the consequences were too much for
Right and wrong, lawful and unjust, natural and unordinary. This is a duty of the mother, to care for and explain the ways of life to the child. Wouldn’t that theory also apply to Victor and his creation? In the situation he was in, yes, it would have. He created and was responsible for this child-minded scary creature, yet he decided instead of trying to teach it, to flee and hope for the best. Sure, in horror biology, the fight or flight response is triggered by the fearful event, and then adrenaline and cortisol are released, and that is a natural instinct (Asma). Victor takes this natural response to the extreme; after he wakes up to see the creature in his room, he flees and doesn’t really bother with where the monster went off to. This leads to the creature going off on his own, as we learn when the creature is telling his side, and figuring out the world and how it works. As the creature goes along with learning basic survival skills, he learns how cruel humans can be, and develops a hatred. This could have all been avoided if Victor had tried to take responsibility for what he created and either taught it or destroy its existence. The responsibility of a creator of life is simple; control it, or remove its danger. Victor let his monster go, and the consequences were too much for