Nature in Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Thesis

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The monster knows right from wrong and he choice is one of desperation. Victor never realizes the difference between right and wrong because it is not within his nature to do so.

Frankenstein will always be closely examined when it comes to matters of humanity because of its subject matter. Victor has every opportunity to do something good with his life and the most he can muster is achieving his own dreams of glory by attempting to recreate life. Despite his education and loving family, Victor swerves off the normal path and skids onto the freakish one. The monster he creates encompasses more goodness than he does but he cannot see this because he is just like the rest of humanity - unable to see beyond the monster's appearance. The monster tried everything within his power to remove himself from the freakish path that Victor placed him on and gain some sense of normalcy.

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It was in each character's nature to want specific things. Bloom maintains, "Frankenstein's hapless creature stands out as a sublime embodiment of heroic pathos. Though Frankenstein lacks the moral imagination to understand him, the daemon's appeal is to what is most compassionate in us" (Bloom). This is true because we recognize the inherent goodness in the monster and the inherent selfishness in Victor. The monster makes the effort that Victor never could and "For all his murderousness, the daimon remains the severe poet of the moral climate Mary Shelley created for him" (Bloom). Indeed, the harmless but hideous monster demonstrates how our destiny depends heavily upon our nature.

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