You say Monster, I say spoiled bratty Serial Killer
“A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife” (Shelley 136). All of that because your daddy (creator) didn’t want to have anything to do with you, wow you couldn’t have grown up in my part of town. The Fiend has serious attachment issues. All through the novel he shows that he wants to be accepted by anyone. This includes people of his creator’s (Daddy’s) fold and random individuals that he stumbled upon in the woods. I’m not convinced that the hurt of not being accepted by your father will drive a normal individual to this extreme without something else being mentally wrong. So maybe it was a good thing that people shot at him when they saw him. The monster talks about wanting a counterpart “you must create a female for me,…”(Shelley 98). And he also refers to love like he wants only to be accepted. Yet, when he’s rejected he makes it his business to make the life of the people he was hoping to be accepted by worse. Now that’s spitefulness on a new level. Maybe we have seen this amount of hate towards people in our time. Those people who did nothing but exercise their God given right, to not want to be around the daemon, for whatever reason. “As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene, and sought for refuge in the woods” (Shelley 94). Now let us not forget these are the same people who the monster learned to read and write from, and found comfort in when he was lonely. How soon did the fiend forget that he wanted to be a part of this family? Yea I’ve read about that behavior, it similar to what serial killers do.
Even if the devil monster would’ve been made more handsome or more social acceptable creature, I think he would have still been a serial killer. He would have just had a different cause like killing people who wore stripes and patterns together. Extreme as it may sound, the monster used his reasoning to determine who lives or dies with no regard for life.
Laughing Out Loud cute but i agree with what you stated about him being a bit bratty because he caint have his way. Just like a 5 year old wanting a puppy just to have but not ready to accept the full responsibility of the animal.This Fiend is kinda funny in reality if you think because he's expecting too much but not enough. although what if you were created and had to learn by way of your creator and then you develop all these feelings and you get an understanding of what it means to want love and want a companion wouldnt you want to take away what another person has that you dont?( not to sound like a mask murder or anything) I just feel that everybody needs a bit of attention every now and then. What if you really needed someone one and they ingonored you and made you seem like you were an experiment how would you feel?
ReplyDeleteThe monster didn't asked to be created and i believe he was a product of his environment.I disagree with the idea that the fiend would have been the vengeful hate filled monster he was, if he would have had a loving environment there was a chance that he could have been good.When someone is giving the chance to be accepted and loved it can change them. if the fiend would have been accepted by anyone he encountered would it have changed his outlook on life and his own self image? I think he said everything he felt when he said to Victor "Where are my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot,a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing."(Shelley 81)
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