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FRANKENSTEINE3333

In Shelly's novel, Victor Frankenstein learns how to infuse a spark of being into lifeless
things. He uses this knowledge and creates a living thing. The creature is so hideous
that not even Dante could not have conceived. From the moment he is animated, the
wretched creature is an outcast. He is not human; he was not born to a mother or father,
or was created by God. Throughout the novel several situations occur that allow the
readers to see that the monster isn't normal. In one instance he causes havoc in a
village by simply appearing to the villagers. But Shelley also allows us to see many of
the normal characteristics the creature has. While observing the De Laceys, the monster
learns how to speak and read. Shelley showed that nothing is normal. The creature at
first was very different from the humans, but at the end he was the most human character
in the novel. There was a major personality change in the creature. He at first had
serene thoughts, and also never performed any bad deeds. For example, instead of eating
animals, he ate nuts and berries. He thought they shouldn't be harmed because they did
nothing to him. But later in the novel the creature learned to hate, a vice that
differentiates humans from animals. An animal is not able to hate another, but a human
can. At this instance we know the creature is normal because he acts like a human, thinks
like a human, and feels like a human.