Frankenstein





     Love is an aspiration based on admiration and benevolence. To love

another is to admire them and to have a warm attachment to them. Many

things in one’s life have the ability to cloud or cover up feelings of love.

Things such as rage, hate, ugliness, and revenge. Despite these negative

feelings and thoughts, love is present in every being, every animal, and

anything that possesses the beautiful thing we call life, because to be alive is

lovin’. There is an excellent book titled Frankenstein, written by Mary

Shelley, that displays the use of unseen love to drive a creature to destruction,

murder and, devastation. Can such a being who has committed so many acts

of wretchedness contain such a feeling as love?



     Some people think that for such a being that love is not possible to

obtain, and others will agree, but argue that although it may be impossible to

obtain love from something , it is easy and very possible to have love for

something. Throughout the whole novel, the monster talks of revenge on the

doctor for making him live with his ugliness and being rejecting by people

because of it. Even the doctor was frightened and ran away when he first

saw his creation’s hideous looks and monstrous body. Right off the bat, the

doctor could have killed the fiend and rid himself of it forever, but he didn’t.

He knew that for him to kill this thing, it would be like killing his own

beloved child. Seeing the reaction of Frankenstein and the other humans, the

creature vowed to hunt down and destroy Victor for bestowing such looks

upon this creature’s body. What the monster was looking for was love, and

he never found any, but he had plenty. The monster loved Victor for letting

him live. The monster didn’t know this until the end. He found out that to

give someone life was to give them the ultimate show of affection and love.

At anytime in the monster’s life he could have killed Victor, especially when

he was weak. Victor said “...for I was a shattered wreck—the shadow of a

human being; my strength was gone..”(page 175). If the monster was as

mean and hateful as he appears, he could have crushed Victor with his

enormous hands and unbelievable strength. Why didn’t he then, because to

kill your creator is to kill yourself, plus you must love your creator for life.

The creature realized this at the end of the story when he said, “I have

devoted my creator, the select specimen worthy of love and admiration

among men, to misery”(page 210).

     The monster was forced to live a life hidden away from the three

people that he truly loved and admired; Felix, Agatha, and the old blind man,

because of his fear of being hated and rejected. The creature had the deepest

love and admiration for these three because of their beauty, their actions

towards one another, their knowledge, and their stories. By watching, and

hearing these three, he began to utter “sounds”, words, and eventually he

would learn to speak the with great intelligence and ease. He learned

everything from them, and he also did good deeds. He saw Felix shoveling

snow in front of Agatha’s door and paths, and he also saw how he could help

more. During the night or very early morning, he would replenish their

supply of firewood and even do some shoveling in front of each door. Soon

he had enough courage to attempt to be accepted by them. One night late he

entered the blind man’s home when the other two were gone and they began

to talk. This thing was actually holding an intelligent conversation with a

human being. This was the first time ever that he was accepted by any

human in his life and it was great. Well, it wasn’t great for long, because

soon Agatha and Felix returned home to find a huge, hideous, monster with

their father. They attacked him, they beat him, they were terrified, they

rejected him, and they broke his heart. He was accepted by one and then the

truly blind rejected him. He could have retaliated and killed them in the blink

of and eye, but he still admired them despite their awful ways. Although he

might have gained only a shadow of affection for his deeds, he had all

the love in the world for them teaching him.



     Through most of the creature’s life, he lived in the shadows. He lived

among the animals in the woods, and was very attached to nature and it’s

beauty. Near the end of the novel, he said with tears in his eyes, “I shall no

longer see the sun or stars or feel the wind play upon my cheeks.”(page 211)

These things made his life worth living. He was rejected by people but not

life or nature. Nature helped him go on.



     There is one being who can be said impossible of giving love and

receiving love. This being was the monster who was created created by

Victor Frankenstein’s hands, who killed many, and had no remorse or regret

when he killed. But the truth, is that he gave all the love in the world and got

none in return and was thus, driven to destruction and devastation. “...I

desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.”(page 210) This is what

the monster said when he was getting ready to leave. Even though he never

found a direct love from anything, he was a very loving person who had the

pain that made him try again: hope.