Throughout the story of Frankenstein the creature goes through many situations that have a great impact on him and mold him into the being he is by the end of the story. As the story unravels, the reader can immediately sense that a major theme in this story is Prejudice and its effect on Frankenstein’s character. There’s many other themes that can be pointed out throughout the story such as Revenge, Lost Innocence, or even Isolation but Prejudice seems to stand out the most because that is essentially what transformed the warm hearted and caring creature into a cold hearted monster. The reader can see the monster’s true kind heart in various occasions. For instance, when he says, “during the night I often took his tools...and brought home
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Frankenstein has realized that no one has ever accepted him due to them not bothering in seeing the real him because of his appearance and all of his kindness towards men is slowly turning into pure hatred. Moreover, another example of the theme of Prejudice is when the creature says, “On seeing me, he darted...aimed a gun... at my body and fired.”(Shelley 61). In this part of the story Frankenstein was saving a girl from drowning but the man the girl came with saw his appearance and automatically assumed he was trying to harm the girl which made Frankenstein vow eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. Later on Frankenstein ran into a little boy and hoped that the boy was too young to judge based on looks that way he’d have someone to accept him but says, “As soon as he beheld my form. he placed his hands before his eyes and uttered a shrill scream”(Shelley 61). The creature found out the boy was his creator’s son so he killed the boy, the monster always saw murder as something horrible but ended up being a murderer ny the end of the story. The creature would not have created any of the atrocities in the first place, if he had not been judged by his appearance because that’s what made people to mistreat him which turned his warm soul bitter
Frankenstein has realized that no one has ever accepted him due to them not bothering in seeing the real him because of his appearance and all of his kindness towards men is slowly turning into pure hatred. Moreover, another example of the theme of Prejudice is when the creature says, “On seeing me, he darted...aimed a gun... at my body and fired.”(Shelley 61). In this part of the story Frankenstein was saving a girl from drowning but the man the girl came with saw his appearance and automatically assumed he was trying to harm the girl which made Frankenstein vow eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. Later on Frankenstein ran into a little boy and hoped that the boy was too young to judge based on looks that way he’d have someone to accept him but says, “As soon as he beheld my form. he placed his hands before his eyes and uttered a shrill scream”(Shelley 61). The creature found out the boy was his creator’s son so he killed the boy, the monster always saw murder as something horrible but ended up being a murderer ny the end of the story. The creature would not have created any of the atrocities in the first place, if he had not been judged by his appearance because that’s what made people to mistreat him which turned his warm soul bitter