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Concpets of Evil in Frankenstein

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How does someone become an evil person? Does the person need to be hurt to become angry for the rest of his life, or maybe he is born with revulsion to the world hidden somewhere in his heart? Mary Shelley shows how discrimination happens in her novel Frankenstein. She demonstrates the individual who wants to live and love, but is not able to do this because of his displeasing appearance. Everyone, even monsters are born innocent, but if society rejects them, they can develop into truly evil creatures. The monster from Shelley’s novel is left alone by his creator, is hated by the society and nobody is able to show him love and kindness, even though he himself is full of love. This story serves as an example of how discrimination can influence anyone’s character. Frankenstein’s monster is created as a baby in an adult’s body – defenseless and pure, but the first thing he sees is disgust from his “father”. Victor Frankenstein does not really plan creating someone he needs to take care of. He makes a discovery, without thinking about the consequences of playing with death and the results are even worse than he could only imagine. Victor creates a gigantic monster, with enormous, disproportionate parts of the body. After Frankenstein succeeds in bringing this creature to life he says: “The dead body was an ugly thing, but alive, it was more horrible” (11). It is obvious that the creature Victor made, terrified him. That is why he does the first thing that comes to his mind – runs away to hide in his room. In fact, innocent being, which was only created, is left alone. Although Frankenstein is afraid of the monster at first sight, he does not even give him the second chance. When he wakes up the next day, the beast is right beside him, smiling, which makes Victor even more afraid: “The horrible thing that I Had created was standing by my bed Before it could touch me, I jumped off the bed and ran downstairs into the gar

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