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Essay / Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - 473
Analysis of the novelOne might come to assume that Mary Shelley intended for you to learn a lesson from her novel that would be important to everyone's existence. In her tale Frankenstein, she depicts a hideous and miserable monster. A monster whose appearance prohibits anyone from surpassing his exterior qualities to reach his interior qualities. The reader is the only one, with Frankenstein, to whom Shelley exposes the monster's feelings and emotions. The other characters hide these emotions because they assumed his appearance said everything about him. Mary Shelley allows the reader to learn that, unlike Victor Frankenstein, the monster he created possessed emotion and passion. The monster failed to understand every emotion he felt, but they all affected him nonetheless. The monster experienced feelings of happiness, joy and excitement several times. However, most of the time he felt alone, neglected and depressed. Evil, anger and resentment have corrupted his heart. The monster let his anger and negativity get the best of him, and he acted impulsively because of it. Like Frankenstein, many other people believed that the monster was incapable of experiencing such feelings or emotions, because of his appearance. Many people's preconceptions are that the monster had no human qualities; unable to think, feel or speak. It's quite the opposite. The monster had a wide range of emotions, like everyone else, and that's what Mary Shelley was trying to tell us. Mary Shelley used the monster to show that all creatures have emotions and that they tend to act because of the way they feel. Before the Romantic era, people often didn't express how they really felt. The sharing of emotions just didn't happen. The Romantic era brought out feelings and emotions that were always present, but never written or spoken about. Through the monster character played by Shelley, she allows us to see the human spirit, overflowing with emotion and feelings. The hideous beast/monster created by Frankenstein had emotions. He spoke openly with Frankenstein about how he felt. He also explained how his feelings affected his actions. Shelley's novel wants to teach its readers, through its unrealistic monster story, that everyone has feelings and emotions. Not only does everyone have emotions and feelings, but we should also let others know how we feel about certain things..