The Creation of Justice and Vengeance
How does one become the person they are? In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, a scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a being made up of human parts yet shuns the creature once he sees it. This abandonment causes great animosity between Victor and his creation, as the creature learns about and experiences the world. Frankenstein’s monster learns several values from his travels throughout nature. His experiences with humans greatly influence him, especially when he meets the De Lacey family. They teach the creature several values which he expresses throughout the novel; the characteristics he has developed from those values are particularly prevalent towards the end of the book when he reflects on his past …show more content…
The creature often feels mistreated as he is rejected by many people due to his appearance. He feels he is treated unfairly and without justice when he is judged by his looks. He feels specifically targeted and treated unjustly when Walton interrogates him over Victor’s dead body, “Was I thought to be the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? … I [am], the miserable and the abandoned… Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice,” (224). The creature is frustrated at the unfair treatment, he is upset that Walton is treating him like he is a devil when other people did immoral things and “sinned against him,” (224). He believes that other people have wrongdoings and that he is being prosecuted and attacked for them unjustly. Likewise, he feels that it was unfair and not just for Victor to abandon him. He calls himself “the abandoned” (224) and closely follows by calling that abandonment, “injustice” (224). It is demonstrated that his feelings of injustice towards Victor are still present because he says that his blood still boils thinking about it. This exposes that Frankenstein’s monster is still thinking of injustices, revealing he is a justice-oriented creature at the end of the …show more content…
When the creature is telling the story of his past he says, “…impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance. I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished… Evil thenceforth became my good,” (222). The creature described his need for revenge as an “insatiable thirst for vengeance,” (222), this shows that the vengeful qualities he developed from the De Lacey’s were incredibly intense and passionate. Insatiable defines a tendency impossible to satisfy, which shows it was out of the creature’s control because it became a part of who he is. Frankenstein’s monster states that “indignation filled” him, this conveys that annoyance and anger about his own mistreatment, is what fueled his need for retaliation. The combination of anger and a need for justice or retaliation, when acted upon almost certainly equates to vengeance. Correspondingly, the creature decides his threats must be carried out and therefore actually takes revenge upon Victor. Threatening revenge and carrying it out are quite obviously characteristics of being a vengeful person, the creature not showing regret prior to such actions reveal a lack of change in his personality. One of the creature’s evils, being his revenge-oriented quality is still with him
How does one become the person they are? In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, a scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a being made up of human parts yet shuns the creature once he sees it. This abandonment causes great animosity between Victor and his creation, as the creature learns about and experiences the world. Frankenstein’s monster learns several values from his travels throughout nature. His experiences with humans greatly influence him, especially when he meets the De Lacey family. They teach the creature several values which he expresses throughout the novel; the characteristics he has developed from those values are particularly prevalent towards the end of the book when he reflects on his past …show more content…
The creature often feels mistreated as he is rejected by many people due to his appearance. He feels he is treated unfairly and without justice when he is judged by his looks. He feels specifically targeted and treated unjustly when Walton interrogates him over Victor’s dead body, “Was I thought to be the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? … I [am], the miserable and the abandoned… Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice,” (224). The creature is frustrated at the unfair treatment, he is upset that Walton is treating him like he is a devil when other people did immoral things and “sinned against him,” (224). He believes that other people have wrongdoings and that he is being prosecuted and attacked for them unjustly. Likewise, he feels that it was unfair and not just for Victor to abandon him. He calls himself “the abandoned” (224) and closely follows by calling that abandonment, “injustice” (224). It is demonstrated that his feelings of injustice towards Victor are still present because he says that his blood still boils thinking about it. This exposes that Frankenstein’s monster is still thinking of injustices, revealing he is a justice-oriented creature at the end of the …show more content…
When the creature is telling the story of his past he says, “…impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance. I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished… Evil thenceforth became my good,” (222). The creature described his need for revenge as an “insatiable thirst for vengeance,” (222), this shows that the vengeful qualities he developed from the De Lacey’s were incredibly intense and passionate. Insatiable defines a tendency impossible to satisfy, which shows it was out of the creature’s control because it became a part of who he is. Frankenstein’s monster states that “indignation filled” him, this conveys that annoyance and anger about his own mistreatment, is what fueled his need for retaliation. The combination of anger and a need for justice or retaliation, when acted upon almost certainly equates to vengeance. Correspondingly, the creature decides his threats must be carried out and therefore actually takes revenge upon Victor. Threatening revenge and carrying it out are quite obviously characteristics of being a vengeful person, the creature not showing regret prior to such actions reveal a lack of change in his personality. One of the creature’s evils, being his revenge-oriented quality is still with him