What motivates the creature to go to Geneva? How have these horrible circumstances fundamentally changed the creature. Use specific details/quotes from the text.
The creature had tried to become friends with the blind man, who he had been watching and learned everything from, but is treated horribly by the man's family when they see him at their house. The creature is motivated to go to Geneva because he wants to find Frankenstein. He wants him to make him a companion because he is tired of being miserable and feared by everyone. He wants someone "of the same species, and have the same defects"(104) because he says that "one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me"(103-104). He says, "I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me(103), so he wants companionship and love from another creature like himself.
The creature decides to go to Geneva in search of Frankenstein. He recalled from his papers a mention of the town where Frankenstein lived and knew the general direction. The creature wanted to find him in order to gain help. He says "But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form" (100). The monster simply wanted someone to not reject him on spot due to his monstrous appearance. He felt that Frankenstein, as his creator, owed him that. Cassandra ♫
Immediately after the creature is found out by his loving little family, he begins his journey for his cursed creator. When the creature says, "I [declare] ever-lasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery", he is commiting to his long trek to Geneva. The creature wanted to know more from Victor and he wanted to feel the same feelings that the inhabitants of the cottage felt for eachother. He proves his questioning for answers when he asks himself, "and whom could I apply with more fitness than him who had given life?"(100). In all his motivation comes from the horror that the cottagers felt towards him and his miserable feelings afterwards. This drives him to Victor and to ask him for a companion.
When he gets to Geneva, he is "oppressed by fatigue and hunger" and unhappy. He sees a young boy which happens to be Victor's brother and thinks he will be unpredujiced and seized the child. The child is scared and struggles to get away and the creature gets angry by what the child is saying and how he is so scared of him at such a yound age and is so angry that he kills the child, Victor's brother. -Chelsea W.
After the creature is rebuked by his beloved cottagers, his thoughts return to his cursed creator and his home in Geneva. While on his journey he tries to save a human life but in return is shot for his good efforts. This changes the creature dramatically and fills him full of rage and contempt towards mankind. Even once he arrives and tries to kidnap and innocent child (Victor's brother), he is unwanted because of his monstrous looks. It is this final straw that causes him to claim his first victim, and innitially spark his deranged and evil side. ~Brittany Rowe
After witnessing the love, compassion, and serenity of the family he has been spieing on, he realizes that he needs a mate of his kind, one that he can love and relate to and one that will accept him for who he is. He is alone and needs someone that shares the same qualities that he possesses, for example, the monster says,"I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me"(103). He then journeys to Geneva to find his creator to persuade him into creating one of his own kind. Once in Geneva he finds a young child (William) and thinks to himself that he can take this young child in and raise him to be his companion and friend. The boy then says he is related to M. Frankenstein, because of the monsters rage he kills the boy and continues his journey to find his creator.
"I learned from you papers that you were my father, my creator... You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town; and towards this place I resolved to proceed" (99-100). After the mishaps with the cottagers, the creature persuded the location of his creator. In this time, he discovered the meaning of death, in murdering William. He was changed in the way that he realized that he the meaning to life, and that without his companion, he would become a uncontrolable monster!
The creature had tried to become friends with the blind man, who he had been watching and learned everything from, but is treated horribly by the man's family when they see him at their house. The creature is motivated to go to Geneva because he wants to find Frankenstein. He wants him to make him a companion because he is tired of being miserable and feared by everyone. He wants someone "of the same species, and have the same defects"(104) because he says that "one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me"(103-104). He says, "I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me(103), so he wants companionship and love from another creature like himself.
ReplyDeleteThat was by Chelsea W.
ReplyDeleteThe creature decides to go to Geneva in search of Frankenstein. He recalled from his papers a mention of the town where Frankenstein lived and knew the general direction. The creature wanted to find him in order to gain help. He says "But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form" (100). The monster simply wanted someone to not reject him on spot due to his monstrous appearance. He felt that Frankenstein, as his creator, owed him that.
ReplyDeleteCassandra ♫
Immediately after the creature is found out by his loving little family, he begins his journey for his cursed creator. When the creature says, "I [declare] ever-lasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery", he is commiting to his long trek to Geneva. The creature wanted to know more from Victor and he wanted to feel the same feelings that the inhabitants of the cottage felt for eachother. He proves his questioning for answers when he asks himself, "and whom could I apply with more fitness than him who had given life?"(100). In all his motivation comes from the horror that the cottagers felt towards him and his miserable feelings afterwards. This drives him to Victor and to ask him for a companion.
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What happens when he gets to Geneva?
ReplyDeleteWhen he gets to Geneva, he is "oppressed by fatigue and hunger" and unhappy. He sees a young boy which happens to be Victor's brother and thinks he will be unpredujiced and seized the child. The child is scared and struggles to get away and the creature gets angry by what the child is saying and how he is so scared of him at such a yound age and is so angry that he kills the child, Victor's brother.
ReplyDelete-Chelsea W.
After the creature is rebuked by his beloved cottagers, his thoughts return to his cursed creator and his home in Geneva. While on his journey he tries to save a human life but in return is shot for his good efforts. This changes the creature dramatically and fills him full of rage and contempt towards mankind. Even once he arrives and tries to kidnap and innocent child (Victor's brother), he is unwanted because of his monstrous looks. It is this final straw that causes him to claim his first victim, and innitially spark his deranged and evil side.
ReplyDelete~Brittany Rowe
Why does he attempt to kidnap William? Somebody use some direct quotes!!
ReplyDeleteThe creature says, "I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in thhe peopled earth"(102).
ReplyDelete-Chelsea W.
After witnessing the love, compassion, and serenity of the family he has been spieing on, he realizes that he needs a mate of his kind, one that he can love and relate to and one that will accept him for who he is. He is alone and needs someone that shares the same qualities that he possesses, for example, the monster says,"I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me"(103). He then journeys to Geneva to find his creator to persuade him into creating one of his own kind. Once in Geneva he finds a young child (William) and thinks to himself that he can take this young child in and raise him to be his companion and friend. The boy then says he is related to M. Frankenstein, because of the monsters rage he kills the boy and continues his journey to find his creator.
ReplyDeleteCT CArlson
that's not the only reason he gets angry Connor...
ReplyDelete"I learned from you papers that you were my father, my creator... You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town; and towards this place I resolved to proceed" (99-100).
ReplyDeleteAfter the mishaps with the cottagers, the creature persuded the location of his creator. In this time, he discovered the meaning of death, in murdering William. He was changed in the way that he realized that he the meaning to life, and that without his companion, he would become a uncontrolable monster!
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