"Innocent"

 

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is blameless for the murders he commits to Victor friends and family. Victor creates a hideous monster out of dead body parts, with strange chemicals, and invigorated him with a mystic spark. The creature begins life as an eight feet tall monster. The creature is innocent, has an intellect of a new born, and longs for affection from his creator. It is understood in Victor’s reply, “He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped” (Shelley 35). Disregarded by his creator the creature becomes confused and frustrated and tries to integrate himself into human society. The creature stumbles upon some books and learns about humans’ way of life. What he learns takes away his innocence, he replies, “I read of men concerned in public affairs governing or massacring their species. I understood the signification of those terms; I applied them, to pleasure and pain alone” (Shelley 87).  Once the creature sees his reflection, he realizes his abominable features will keep him from being part of human society. The knowledge the creature obtains about human genocide sparks a conflagration of revenge toward his creator. The creature locates Victor’s younger brother and murders him, then his best friend to get his attention. Being outcated from his creator and people, he makes a proposition for his creator to create him a companion like himself, but Victor refuses, so the creature murders the closest person to him, his wife. Victor now is lonely like the creature he created.

  The moral to this story is Victor created the monster out of selfishness. In all his effort in creating the monster he failed to give him the most important thing to sustain his life………………………………………….love and companionship.