Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Frankenstein and the human connection


In Frankenstein we see how the monster craves for human connection. He craves to understand the cottages people and the monster longs “to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures:..” (shelly 77) The monster tries to fix the connection between himself and the his cottage friends by getting up late at night. While they where asleep the monster would help Felix with some of his chores and the monster would also help clear the path from snow so Agatha could go to the garden with out any troubles.He sees how his secret human connection makes a positive impact on there life.He noticed them a lot happier but the monster still sees the sadness that over takes them. He doesn't understand why they are still sad until he learns about how they have had a rough life. He wants to understand there language so he teaches himself how to speak and read by some books he finds on the path one day “..I found on th ground a leathern portmanteau, containing several articles of dress and some book.”(shelly85) He was so happy when he found this because he began learning more about the cultures and the government. He is disgusted by how people act in the form of war killing each other. They sometimes made him happy with new feeling he has never felt before but sometimes it was the total opposite  He finds a note in the pocket and he learns about how his master created him. The monster begins to feel true hatred and anger for his master. So in a way the monster does form a way of human connection by feeling emotions. Its makes him even more human with the anger that he feels towards his master.

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  1. It also makes him have more of a human connection when he finds the emptiness of a companion. The monster wants to have that emotion of what love feels like with a partner. He sees with his friends in the cottages, they have each other but when the monster looks around at the end of the day he has nobody. He's alone. He just wants to live a normal life and be like everyone else no matter what he looks like on the outside. He doesnt understand why he cant have that.

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