https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRppXdKDY_c
In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, a wealthy scientist, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster out of body parts that he found in a grave. When the monster came to life, Frankenstein was so disgusted by the appearance of the monster that he abandons him. With the monster clueless of his lonely life, and hatred for being abandoned, he decides to go on a killing spree due to how he rejected he felt from humans(at this point, the monster only went after the Frankenstein family). The monster then takes shelter at a cottage for a year, where he learned language and how to read. He then was able to read Frankenstein’s papers which revealed everything about Frankenstein. He then takes on the search for Frankenstein but ends up killing Frankenstein’s son on the way. In the end, Victor grew ill when the monster gets closer to him, and dies. Since the creator died, the monster decided he lost all purpose for living, so he goes to destroy himself.
In this video, the narrator stresses the question of how much we should blame the monster for everything he’s done. Then, the narrator proposes whether the monster could be good, but his surroundings had made him turned evil.
I believe that the monster had to be naturally caring and nice because Frankenstein made him for no good reasons just to abandon him because of how ugly he turned out to be. After the monster came to life, he did not know anything other than rejection and being abandoned. With this type of experiences, the monster didn’t know anything better than to keep his guard up and get revenge on everyone who misunderstands and is so quick to judge him. What really proves that the monster has good in him is when Frankenstein dies and the monster felt that he lost everything, and that he shouldn’t live anymore either. This proves that no matter how much wrong Frankenstein did to the monster, the monster still felt emotional attachment to Frankenstein. Instead of the monster deciding to kill himself, he could of also went on a further and more brutal killing spree but he chose not to, which shows he’s really not all evil. His environment and human relationships left him no choice but to do what he had done to get the attention he so dearly craves from his creator.