Frankenstein overview :: Character Analysis, Literary Analysis

Frankenstein is, in my opinion a story about a scientist who makes a being who possesses more soul than its creator. The scene in which the creation of young Victor stands by Victors beside, while startling understandably, gives you compassion over this poor being. The scene where he says. His jaws opened, and her muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks... one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me.... This suggests a yearning for contact with the outside world.                     What I really consider disturbing is the narcissistic manner in which Victor operates himself. He wallows in his own tragedy. He is more interested in his own wretchedness than the fate of his beleaguered family or plain this abusive environment his creation faces. He brings his sorrow upon himself, but yet at every opportunity is contemplates the abortion of his creation, even though he c onstantly ignores him, when he yearns for his love.     I wonder whether the villagers find the creature so terrible because is so deformed, or because his appearance suggests a life so malevolent that they cannot sink in to imagine it. He is constantly attacked with no real cause. I ponder this because if he were truly so fearsome, why would one engage him face to face. peradventure they believe that his presence is pure evil and a danger automatically. Or maybe its because his appearance is so different from theirs. People are neer very welcome to the outcasts of society.     Another thing so appealing was Waltons admiration of Victor. For a man so lonely that he finds