Frankenstein
...love
another is to admire them and to have a warm attachment to them. Many
things in one's life have the ability to cloud or cover up feelings of love.
Things such as rage, hate, ugliness, and revenge. Despite these negative
feelings and thoughts, love is present in every being, every animal, and
anything that possesses the beautiful thing we call life, because to be alive is
lovin'. There is an excellent book titled Frankenstein, written by Mary
Shelley, that displays the use of unseen love to drive a creature to destruction,
murder and, devastation. Can such a being who has committed so many acts
of wretchedness contain such a feeling as love?
Some people think that for such a being that love is not possible to
obtain, and others will agree, but argue that although it may be impossible to
obtain love from something , it is easy and very possible to have love for
something. Throughout the whole novel, the monster talks of revenge on the
doctor for making him live with his ugliness and being rejecting by people
because of it. Even the doctor was frightened and ran away when he first
saw his creation's hideous looks and monstrous body. Right off the bat, the
doctor could have killed the fiend and rid himself of it forever, but he didn't.
He knew that for him to kill this thing, it would be like killing his own
beloved child. Seeing the reaction of Frankenstein and the other humans, the
creature vowed to hunt down and destroy Victor for bestowing such looks
upon this creature's body. What the monster was looking for was love, and
he never found any, but he had plenty. The monster loved Victor for letting
him live. The monster didn't know this until the end. He found out that to
give someone life was to give them the ultimate show of affection and love.
At anytime in the monster's life he could have...
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