Julien howard
Professor : Timothy Aubry
September 17, 2017
Blog Posting #1
Julien Howard
Reading Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, pp-61-108
Passages discussing Chapter 15 pg 91-93.
In this two page section of our reading I found these particular pages to be extra special. In these passages the narrator is giving us an in depth look into the mentality of the monster and the vulnerability of his true feelings toward his own existence. Frankenstein and the monster are both in a shack the monster possessed due to reason of his insecurity, his appearance. Was his creator God or the Devil. The root of his insecurities stem from the increase of his knowledge. The monster says my “increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. “ The more he learned of himself, the more despicable he found himself to be. Constantly fighting his inner demons, attempting to come to peace with his appearance.
The motive of his meeting with his creator is to leverage peace from human interaction. His biggest challenge was to be accepted. The monster craved acceptance but his appearance hindered his ability to adapt within society, his creator, and others to accept who he was. The monster desires companionship, someone like him that would accept him, leading to a fulfilled “normal humanistic life”. “Like Adam I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence“, he was missing his Eve to complete and accept him. He says “I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversations I was a listener”
He wanted to be seen from his inward beauty and not condemned by his physical appearance . From his anthropological studies of human behavior, he craved what separated them from beast. Love, acceptance, family, and a place to to be himself without any judgement or wrath. Inevitably so, a place to be free. The monster wanted freedom..
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