T. Dabney-Bryant
2nd Period
Prompt: Analyze a character from your novel whose character is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences.
Mary Shelley's sinister novel "Frankenstein" analyzes human nature through the life of a creature created by another human being Victor Frankenstein. The creation was abandoned on its making and left to figure out life on it's own without any guidance, and was forced to decode the enigma of love, human relationships, and the desire to be involved in the two. The only model that he had to look upon was the family in the cottage who he called his caretakers, but when the people there saw him, his features caused feelings of "despondence and mortification"; their "human senses [were] insurmountable barrier" that prevented them from having a potentially great relationship. The origin of the creature had no bad intentions; even the blind man of the cottage saw the best in him, but the shallowness of human nature caused him to be an outcast. This living being had no "friends and associates in his desolation", and that feeling of total isolation created a "hell of intense tortures." Everybody has somebody that they can at least feel comfortable around, and there was not one being on earth that could partially relate to him without first harshly judging him by his outward awkward appearance. The companionship of another being was all the creature desired, but his search came back null in-void. With all the odds against him, Frankenstein's entity still endeavored to be what everyone else would be pleased with, but he was recompensed with his good deeds with hatred and atrocious behavior. In spite of all of the benevolence he showed he was still "wretched, helpless, and alone". This disappointment he experienced in human nature led him to vow "vengeance to all mankind." The beastly creation didn't want to be this way toward his fellow creatures of the earth, but with all of his good deeds being returned with negativity, there was nothing left to do but change and hope for a different result. The beast's heinous behavior was still returned with disdain from the people around him leaving him confused. Good was compensated with malice, and evil was also recompensed with the same thing causing the lost creature to become baffled. There is no such place for someone in the world with nobody to relate to them, because in this life of sick and twisted human nature, nobody but nobody makes it out alone.
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