The Importance Of Friendship In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The novel, Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, is a story filled with many difference and unique ideas. The main idea throughout this novel is that no one, including scientists should not play god and judge by appearances. Shelley brings life into this story about an outrages inventor named Frankenstein and the creation he made, the monster. Within the last few years, the creator has been spending time in thinking to trying to create something better than human. The outcome of his creation brings nothing but frustration. The monster has been later been abandoned by his creator, Frankenstein, the creation later than comes to understand that trying to find love and friendship does not work out in life. The story follows his search for friendship…show more content…
Due to the creator’s actions in creating the monster, it brought nothing but bad and unlawful for society. For example, “A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility” (Shelley 49). When Frankenstein looked back on his labor, he realized that he never had a peaceful clear mind but he had an existing mind of the creation. By Frankenstein creating the monster, it allowed desire and to avoid his piece in a best wish. Another example, “I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind” (Shelley 49). He himself took away his needs for simple pleasure but focusing in creating the monster. For example, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow-creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime”(Shelley 50). Once again, due to the creator’s actions in creating the monster, it brought nothing but bad and unlawful for
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