The reaction and decisions we make as people is determined by our past experiences and situations. Going through life one may experience negative emotions pushed onto us by others, but it is overcome with joy, love, and companionship. These experiences define people’s reactions and decisions. Looking at the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly we see a creature that grows into a monster because of his experiences. Frankenstein creates a creature that longs to love and be loved, but going through his reality he only experiences the worst of life, loneliness, rejection, and hatred. With these emotions sent towards him it molds him into the monster the people see him to be.
Frankenstein’s creature from the beginning is alone, and throughout the…show more content… The creature understands on a deep level the idea of companionship, but never reaches it. In society today, we have adapted the creature to be a different idea than what he was purposed to be, but he the creature is relative to humans in every way, he pursues love and companionship at any cost. Denis de Rougemont in his book called, Passion and Society says, “Articulating love and death in an explosive dynamic, passion uncouples, disconnects, the subject from all fixed relations of law, reason or society” (Rougemont 1). This quote is true in telling how far we will go based on the pursuit of love, becoming disconnected from using reasonable logic, but as the creature did during his journey for companionship. The journey becomes his downfall as it is full of destruction and pain that makes the creature miserable. The creature is a victim to the cruelness of the world, and this cruelness is then reciprocated. We see this emotion of the creature and feel for his lack of love. Everyone has been hated and felt the emotional pain of being rejected, so as the creature pours his heart out we cannot help but feel sympathetic to his struggle to find companionship. Stephen Gould sums up the argument well in his analysis of "Frankenstein” when he states, “Shelley's monster is not evil by inherent constitution. He is born unformed--carrying the predispositions of human nature, but without the specific manifestations that can only be set by upbringing and education… he is also a victim of post-Enlightenment pessimism as the cruel rejection of his natural fellows drives him to fury and revenge. (Even as a murderer, the monster remains fastidious and purposive. Victor Frankenstein is the source of his anger, and he only kills the friends and lovers whose deaths will bring Victor the most grief; he does not, like Godzilla or the Blob, rampage through cities” (Gloud). Gloud makes the argument that even in his
