Frankenstein Essay #5

Pity can be taken in the wrong way many times. Pity is a sympathetic sorrow for one's suffering. This can be taken in the wrong way because many people see pity as looking down on someone. That at least whatever they just went through, did not quite happen to you. In a way Mary Shelley makes it so you want to pity the monster because it wasn't like he chose the life that he had lived. 

To a certain extent, the monster should have been pitied. The monster lived a life that he did not ask for. He was abandoned by everyone and left on his own. When he tried to interact with humans, they feared him and would not accept him. When he tried to ask Frankenstein for another companion, he was again shut down and received no companion. He was lonely and had no one to care for and no one to care for him either. The monster had to teach himself how to talk, and had to fend for himself in order to eat. He was never taught how to interact with others so you can say the monster did deserve a form of pity.

The monster that Frankenstein had created also deserved no pity at the same time. Even though he had lacked social skills and interactions with people, he did some unforgivable things. The monster killed everyone that Victor had loved from his family, to wife, to best friend. Even though he had gave Victor a warning about his wife, that is not the way to be accepted and get what you want. In that way, the monster deserved no pity from anyone. Killing people who did nothing wrong to you is wrong and even though the monster was dealt a tough hand, it was still wrong to do it.

The monster may not have deserved the treatment he had been given. Being abandoned with no one and being shunned from society is an awful thing but the monster also did some awful things himself. When asked if you feel pity for Victor's creation what would you say? I know my answer would be that I feel pity for him because he never got a chance but towards the end when he was mourning Victor's death, I felt no pity because ultimately, he was the reason that Victor was no longer living.