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Essay / The end of the personality in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein... man, in fact, at the same time so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, but so vicious and vile? (83).” In the context of books 1-2, the narrator asks this question because the question revolved around Victor Frankenstein and his creation of the monster due to his admiration for the relationship between nature and knowledge. On volume 2, chapter 2, “Oh, Frankenstein… Remember that I am your creature: I should be your Adam; but I am rather your fallen angel... I was benevolent and good; poverty has made me a demon. Make me happy and I will be virtuous again (68).” Here the monster speaks to Frankenstein; and that here the narrator is speaking generally about man, his question suggests a particular man in the text and that this man is the minister that Frankenstein created. What is virtuous about this man is that he desperately seeks to integrate into society and educates himself in the communication of the people around him. What is low about this particular man is that he is not a human being and therefore he is sad and alone and knows that he cannot coincide with society; but he feels his happiness near nature itself, just like the birds in the trees or the fish in the pond. With the quote from page 68, the monster compares his creator to God and himself to the fall of man, like Adam. The monster tells Frankenstein that he has a good heart deep inside, but the mistreatment of other humans and his own ugliness have made his heart cold and bitter. Both Victor Frankenstein and the monster share their love for science, especially when the monster states: "...... middle of paper ...... nature separates the way good and evil are perceived by society and how much of both have existed in the world. The creature admired and discovered life by experiencing and learning about language, interactions, and love in general; he can't believe how much harm was done and how much he hates him. The creature goes on to say: “To be a great and virtuous man seemed the greatest honor that could befall a sentient being; to be vile and vicious, as many have been, appears to be the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or the harmless worm. "(52) He speaks of his creator, Victor Frankenstein, because he believes that the "virtuous" part of him is the "divine" way in which he imbued him with life, but the "base" part of his creator is the violent way he avoided him and left him to fend for himself in the natural world..
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