Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Intro Practice

Practice writing your Intros. Write an intro with a clear thesis for the following prompts:

1.) In literary works, cruelty often functions as a crucial motivation or a major social or political factor. Select a work in which acts of cruelty are important to the theme. Then write a well-developed essay analyzing how cruelty functions in the work as a whole and what the cruelty reveals about the perpetrator and/or victim. (2015)

2.) In a novel by William Styron, a father tells his son that life "is a search for justice." Choose a character from a novel who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character's understanding of justice, the degree to which the character's search for justice is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole. (2011)

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  1. 1) In the novel "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelly, there are many different characters that go through different acts of cruelty. But one character that sticks out from everyone else is the monster himself. This creature has been through many different forms of cruelty both physical and emotional. The topic of cruelty affects the theme of the novel as a whole because it shows that being mistreated has an effect on you and can lead to becoming something you are not, like a monster.

    2) In the novel "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelly, Victors creation has a significant response to injustice. His understanding of the injustice he receives leads him to fight for the justice wants. The motivation behind the creature seeking justice was because he found out he was a creation of a moral foul. His search for justice only leads him to the end of his life.

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  2. Cristina Chinchilla

    "To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult." In the gothic novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein plays the role of God by giving life to his creation known as "the monster." Victor makes the cruel decision of leaving his creation in a desolate state forcing him to fend on his own as he abandon's his role as a father. The author reveals that often times a victim that undergoes cruelty is excessively mentally impacted to the point of finding indulgence through revenge.

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  3. "To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty." In the novel, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, the monster becomes vengeful due to the cruelty he experiences as he tries to become a apart of society. Due to the way he was treated, he begins to wonder of his origins, and instead of forgiving "his father", he seeks revenge to make it known to Victor what it feels like to abandoned, secluded, and a reject of society.

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  4. The novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, depicts of a young man, Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with the afterlife and vows to bring to life a body made of corpses-- "the Monster". Once the Monster comes to life, Victor is repulsed and regretful for having created such a "putrid" and "wretched" creature; in which the Monster is soon rejected by all society because of his physical appearances, as well as deemed a "Monster". He blames Victor for such reaction, and soon after pledges to release havoc on Victor's life by killings everyone he cares about. All throughout the novel, the Monster seeks justice for having been created so atrociously by killing those around Victor to only have him end up in isolation the same way the Monster is.

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  5. "Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?" In the Gothic novel "Frankenstein", written by Mary Shelly, these are the exact words that turned the creatures complete motivations into deep horrid vengeance towards his creator, Victor. It is this injustice towards the creature that separates him from society. Due to this the creature develops a mentality to only hate humanity and his creator due to out casting him. Though sadly due to their actions severe consequences followed that harmed both Victor and society.

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  6. 1. “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death.” In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein challenges the limits of human knowledge as he goes beyond the natural laws by satisfying his obsession of creating life himself. However, Victor instantly cruelly neglect his creation, causing it to not only feel isolated from the society, but to also feel hatred towards his creator. Shelley illustrates how the act of cruelty can effortlessly turn an innocent into a heartless monster.

    2. As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, a scientist named Victor Frankenstein embarks upon a dangerous journey as he discovers the secrets of life to satisfy his desire of creating life. Victor chooses to abandon the monster because of its physical appearances. The monster blames Victor for making him the way he is due to the fact that he was created in a way that all mankind sees him as an unacceptable creature. He then tries to achieve justice for the pain and agony his creator made him experience.

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  8. In the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, explains a tale of a mad scientist creating an unnamed life form. Throughout the book, the new life, also referred as "the monster" or "creature", faces all types of harsh and cruel acts. As a result, these "cruel acts" turns the monster's heart from being pure and good to evil and ugly. It drives the character to an unstoppable rage as he tries to take revenge on his creator.

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  9. 1.) In Mary Shelley's novel, “Frankenstein”, we witness the titular character Victor Frankenstein give life to a ‘new being’ only to abandon it the second it opens its eyes. Although this ‘new being’ is a considered a monster, abandoning it was the cruelest act Victor could have possibly committed. This along with other acts of cruelty, is what led to the monster wreaking havoc on society, specifically targeting its creator's family and friends. This act of abandonment also reveals that Victor is afraid of what his ambition led him to.

    2.) In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, creates a monster while attempting to ‘play god’. Victor's first response to his foul creation is complete and utter horror and disgust. Victor’s greatest crime or injustice was against mother nature. By creating this new species, he took on the women's role of bringing new life into the world, which goes against the natural order of things. When Victor finally decides to take responsibility for his actions he dies before he can finally right his wrongs, leaving justice in the hands of the monster and whether or not it will take its own life.

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  10. 1.) A wise man once said “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” In Mary Shelly’s gothic novel Frankenstein, the monster become evil because of the cruelty that he learn when he tries to fit in society. Furthermore, since the monster becomes evil he learns that he himself can cause cruelty and he does by seeking revenge on victor and inflicting all kind of cruelty. All in all, Mary Shelly uses cruelty to strength her theme that if people impose cruelty to other that person can learn to do the same.

    2.) “If i cannot inspire love i will cause fear.” In Mary Shelly’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, the monster thinks that he need to cause justice for himself and that only way he can feel like he has had justice in his life is by inflicting death to victor love once. Furthermore, the monster learns that his justice all along has been injustice because it has made him look like a real monster. All in all, Mary Shelly uses justice to strength her theme that sometimes people use the reason of justice to excuse the reason that justice can lead to death.

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  11. In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, a scientist named Victor Frankenstein creates a creature that would soon go on to exact revenge on him for creating it. During this whole ordeal, Frankenstein would never reveal to his friends and family the fact that the reason behind the results of creature's revenge were because he created the monster itself. Though, in hindsight, his life may have fared if he had initially revealed his secret when his little brother, William, was murdered. Even if people were to despise him for creating such a beast, telling the truth may have even been able to stop all of the future creature's murders. (Hmmm....)

    In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a creature was given life by a manic scientist, Victor Frankenstein. But in his scientific trance, Victor failed to realize he created a putrid looking creature with what seems to be no redeemable value and immediately casts it away. The creature then is left to his own devices where he finds his way to outside world only to be met by terrified and angry humans who despise him on first glance. To the creature, this is a grave injustice, that his creator would seek to create the perfect being only to make him look abhorrent. Not only that, but to also abandon him on a land where he has no one who would ever care for him even though humans and even beast of the wild can find companionship. The creature's response to this injustice was revenge of the most dangerous kind, the murderous kind. The creature believes he should make his creator as miserable as he is by eliminated all those who are dear to him, thus making him alone and miserable much like the creature himself.

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    1. Ignore my first intro.

      In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a creature was given life by scientist Victor Frankenstein. The creature us then cast away by his creator, leaving it by itself in a world where he is despised everywhere he goes. To be left in such a world where the creature will never feel compassion from another being was the cruelest thing anybody has done to him. So he decides to use cruelty in killing his creator's loved ones to make him regret casting away his creation. Throughout, one act of cruelty on the creature would go on to grow into a cruelty against Victor.

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  12. In the novel "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley, a young man named Victor becomes obsessed with the natural sciences and attempts to create life within death in a form of a being, but stronger than any being alive. Once the “creature” is created, Victor abandons him, leading the creature to kill his family members as revenge. These acts of cruelty caused by the novel is important in the theme of the novel because the author is implying, in a gruesome way, that everything we do in life has consequences.





    In the novel "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley, the main character wants to serve justice by destroying an enemy he created caused by his obsession to the natural sciences. It is evident that he interprets justice as revenge rather than righteousness, and that causes mishaps through this journey on getting “justice”. This is important in the overall theme of the novel because nothing in life is left unpaid, and in the end, all serve justice to their own actions.

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  13. 1) Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “Man is the cruelest animal.” This proves to be true in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. In the novel, scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a monster and immediately upon animation neglects it. Since the monster is left to navigate the world he has many acts of cruelty committed against him by humans due to his ugly nature. Shelley uses cruelty in the novel in order to highlight that actions have the tendency to change a person’s behavior.

    2) In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, ambitious scientist Victor Frankenstein, creates artificial life in the form of a hideous creature. Immediately upon animation, Victor neglects his creation, which fuels the creature with rage and prompts him to search for justice. In his search for justice,the creature kills many of those close to Victor. The creature fails to realize that the search for his justice results in the justice being taken away from his innocent victims, rendering his search for justice successful, but at a cost. Shelley addresses this in order to show the theme that the search for justice often comes with hostile effects.

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  14. 1. In the gothic novel "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein appeases his desire to create life only to reject the monster he created once he had laid eyes on its grotesque features. The cruelty of Victor's abandonment of his creation causes the monster to act out in anguish. Along with other cases of cruelty, the monster is rejected by society despite his valiant efforts to fit in, which in course of time influenced him in his rampage on Victor's family. The cruelty displayed throughout the novel reveals that the monster only demands justice for his mistreatment.
    2. In Mary Shelley's novel,"Frankenstein", Victor Frankenstein plays God by creating life only to then abandon his creation out of horror and disgust. His creation, or better known as "the monster", responds to this injustice by murdering family members closest to Victor. Mary Shelley, through the act of murder committed by the monster, reveals that youth rightfully feel mistreated but react to injustice violently as seen in the novel.

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  15. “Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.” In Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel, Frankenstein, the main character Victor Frankenstein’s obsession with natural science, aids in his determination to reanimate a body built from various corpses. Eventually he successes in his endeavor, however unable to cope with the horrid creature he created, Victor abandons his “child.” The monster is not only left by his creator, but is chased away by everyone he meets. These multiple acts of cruelty build the creature’s hatred for his maker, leading to him becoming the monster Victor saw in him. -Jennifer Lizarraga

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  16. 1) Discrimination, abuse, and murder. All of these tragic and awful actions take place in Mary Shelley's, "Frankenstein". As we look at the work as a whole, we notice how cruelty seems to seep out of this book. We witness the Monster get abandoned for his appearance, beat up, and how it all impacts the creature. We also view how this cruelty changes this once pure, innocent monster, into what everyone else would think he was.

    2) "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." As we read the novel, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, we notice the main character, Victor Frankenstein, attempt to create his own version of human kind. His ignorance and power allows him to create a monster that eventually destroys him. Frankenstein believes that his justice should be on getting rid of the Monster, but unfortunately there is little success there. The manner that Frankenstein approaches his justice, completely destroys his life. This allows the audience to view how significant Shelley's message of how too much pride and ignorance can destroy a person.

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  17. In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, few characters illustrate injustice throughout the novel. One character which demonstrates injustice is Victor because he seems to feel the end has ended with a creation he has done. Victor expresses the way he feels emotionally. He goes deaths of family members, and friends. He feels guilt for his creation and feels nothing he does can change what he has done. All of his has been lead with the ambition Victor had to create the monster.

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  18. 1-“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” In the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, one of the main characters, the monster, is treated with cruelty and injustice. Not only does his own creator reject him but he is rejected by humanity which leads him to isolation and misery. From this, the monsters actions lead too many innocent life’s dying.
    2-In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, an ambitious scientist, who not only took the role of God, but despised his own creation. By the rejection of Victor towards the monster, the monster heated with anger strives for revenge but justice at once. Destroying and killing everyone Victor loved and cherished. As so, the monster wanted Victor to feel the desolation and solitude he had caused him. Shelley uses justice to state her theme that injustice made brings desire to seek for justice but throughout the way many things are set in the line.

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  19. 1) In the Gothic novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the author emphasizes the topic of cruelty throughout the novel. The monster is seen as someone who has faced cruelty throughout his life. The monster faced cruelty in many ways; from being abandoned from his creator to being ignored by others for his looks. Cruelty has a great impact on this novel because this is what sets the characters apart.

    2) In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the creator and scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a monster whom he abandons. This causing the monster to seek the justice he deserves after he was left alone, which led to him having to make his own choices. Although, the monster feels he is seeking justice by killing people who Victor loved, him seeking justice more relates to seeking revenge. The monster fails to recognize the difference between justice and revenge which led him to the killings. Shelley shows this topic to help one realize the difference between one another and what the outcome can be if one cannot tell the difference.

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  20. 1. The novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, reflects the tragic downfall of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, after he has successfully restored life to this creature. However, Victor Frankenstein is horrified once the creature opens his eyes which leads Frankenstein to abandon it. The cruel act of constant abandonment and isolation was the monster's influence to create havoc in Victor Frankenstein's life. This highlights how being mistreated can cause violent outbreaks which we see in the monster as he begins to react in the most harmful ways. Lastly, the cruelty acts of being abandoned and shunned from society creates a lasting effect on the creature as he changes to what Frankestein saw him as, a monster.

    2) In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Victor Frankenstein restores life to a dead corpse. Once the creature opens his eyes, Frankestein is disgusted by what he has created and abandons the creature. This abandonment from not only his creator, but society as a whole causes the creature to seek justice in the most merciless way. The creature seeks justice by killing those who Victor Frankenstein holds deeply to his heart, because the creature believes that Frankenstein's misery will pay for the suffering he endured as soon as he was created. The creature's search for justice is unsuccessful because he feels remorse for what he's done rather than satisfaction. This highlights the theme of how sometimes in life what we wanted to achieve, is not what is seems.

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  22. 1.) Was Victor Frankenstein's creation always an abomination? At the very moment of his birth, the first emotion that the creature experienced was abandonment, straight from his own father. To add on to this, the creature also bears wounds from rejection when he was attacked by Felix, a man from the family the creature helped and learned language from. It's often said that a person's background can say a lot about what factored into their growth. This constant cruelty, in which the creature has been afflicted, motivates him through-out the narrative, and it's because of this, the creature became a being full of anger and hate.

    2.) What is justice, and to what end can it be qualified? Moreover, can the search for justice be wrong? Victor Frankenstein, the main protagonist in Mary Shelly's Gothic novel, Frankenstein, explores this idea as he aims to seek justice against a foul creature that murdered the people Victor cared about. Near the end of the novel, he vows to hunt the monster down to the ends of the Earth, and he does just that, but then he dies, leaving the call for justice unfinished. Why would the author leave this hero's quest unfulfilled? Because, Victor Frankenstein wasn't a hero; Victor Frankenstein didn't represent justice.

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  23. 1) In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, cruelty plays a crucial role in which Victor, the main character, tampers with life and creates a creature in which he abandons and doesn’t take responsibility for. This act of cruelty causes the physical and mental reasoning behind the acts in which the creature murders Victor's close relatives to express his emotions of anger and make his creator endeavor the pain he feels, loneliness.
    2)In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, we witness how a ambitious scientist, Victor, embarks on the journey of creating life and conquers his goal in which he painfully regrets. Victor is trying to bring life to death and does so to be seen almost as a higher figure, God. In doing so however, he got more than he bargained for and is horrified of what he has created, which leads to the departure of his studies.

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  24. 1. The monster, the set antagonist from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, use the act of cruelty as his source of motivation and his Modus operandi, or his way of working, to exact his revenge on his creator Victor Frankenstein. Cruelty is the monsters sense of motivation as it is what he had to endure from the towns people and Victor when he was created and first seen. He then reciprocates those feeling as a way to get back on the person who put him through all that and abandoned him in his greatest time of need.

    2) The monster, the main antagonist from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, ironically uses unjust methods to fulfill his vendetta of the injustice that was placed onto him. During the time he was created and abandoned the monster has had people leave him, curse at him and hurt him all things that he blames on his creator, Victor Frankenstein. So in order to get his revenge on his creator, he has done unjust acts against Victor such as, killing his younger brother and his then wife.

    -Jonathan Kim

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  25. 1. "God in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance." In Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein, the creature's thirst for revenge is sparked through the cruelty of how humans have treated him. He fell victim to the cruel norms of what society sees as acceptable. Shelley reflects on how cruelty can play a major role in the motivation of others.

    2. In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein the theme of injustice is portrayed though a couple of the characters. One of them would be Victor Frankenstein's creation, the monster. The monster feels injustice and betrayed upon finding out that he is an experiment. He seeks to make justice through getting back at his creator by making his life and those around him miserable.

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  26. "I Will Pioneer A New Way, Explore Unknown Powers, And Unfold To The World The Deepest Mysterious Creation." In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor, the protagonist whom creates the monster, seeks ambition to do things no other has been able to accomplish such as discovering the secrets of life and the recreation of life. Although Victor creates a monster, he becomes a monster himself. - Abel Sanchez

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  27. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity." In the Gothic novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster who seeks justice. The rejection from Victor Frankenstein and the society causes the monster to want everyone to pay.

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  29. Paola Vergara:
    In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the protagonist, Victor, searches to discover a way to bring back life to the dead. However, little does he know that the monster he creates will be the cause of his sufferings, making him seek justice. Victor Frankenstein seeks justice against his own creation when he realizes that the monster killed many of his loved ones as a result of revenge for leaving it abandoned. Until his very own death, Victor seeks to find justice in all the injustices the monster caused in his life.

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  30. 1. "Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us." In the gothic novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the monster's need for revenge arises from the never ending cruelty he falls victim to. How he reacts to the cruelty reveals that he cares a great deal about how others think of him even if he sees them as his enemies, to the point of murder of those who dare act cruelly towards him. Cruelty plays a key role throughout the novel as how each character's reactions or actions shapes them.
    2. In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, the monster's ignorance of justice causes him to seek revenge rather than resolving the injustice done to him by humanity. His hunger for vengeance rather than justice ends with several deaths by his hands and eventually causes his own demise. The acts of injustice and the "justice" that were used to respond shapes and develops the characters throughout work.

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  31. Victor, the creator of the monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, is the cause for the monsters desire for revenge. Victor searches ways to bring back the dead to life and finally success. However, his final product is not what he expected. The rejection towards the monster because of his appearance by Victor is enough cruelty to influence the monster to hurt Victor's loved ones, including himself.

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  32. In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is a scientist that creates life from a corpse who then becomes estranged from society because of his deformity. Because of the creature’s isolation, he asks Frankenstein to build him a companion as an act of justice but when Frankenstein refuses to do so he promises to make his life absolutely miserable. The creature believes that this refusal is unjust because he understands that it is Frankenstein’s responsibility as his creator to give him a life worth living. The journey towards justice is the creature’s main motivation in the story as he keeps going until he is successful.

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  34. "Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred." In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, a creature of no name is created by Victor Frankenstein. This creature, lacking any education, and lacking the most basic communication skills, still has an understanding of fair treatment, or justice. For what is shown throughout the creature's growth, he only seems to understand the "Golden Rule", which was to treat others in a way you would want to be treated. Evidence of this lies within the creature's interactions with mankind, as in every approach -before his violence- he tries is with kindness and wonder, only respecting them, never attempting to hurt them. As the creature searches to receive the same justice from others, almost every interaction ends up in failure, with the humans reacting in horror, some retaliating violently, treating him unfairly simply for the way he looks. This search for justice drives the creature mad, as left and right he only receives hatred and rejection from mankind. This is key to the rest of the novel, as this madness drives the creature inflict said anguish onto his very creator, Victor Frankenstein. In this, William Frankenstein is murdered, with Justine framed for the boy's death, and all this was orchestrated by the creature. With this, Victor and the creature are forced to encounter one another once more, and thus the rest of the plot of Frankenstein continues.

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  35. "Every thing must have beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must Ben linked to something that went before." In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, Victor creates a monster who then embarks on a quest of acceptance which later turns into revengeful quest. This all because the monsters own creater wasn't there to raise and guide him, thus putting him in an unbeknown world to fight alone. This caused for the monster to try and find justice by trying to make Victor suffer as much as he did by taking him family members away from him and thus causing him to be lonesome like he was.

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  36. In the gothic the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley there are a lot of characters that represent cruelty toward one individua. That individual was a monster created by Victor Frankenstein. The monster received a lot of cruelty due to the idea that he did not meet the society standers in image. He also had a lack of the intelligence to interact with other humans and did not know how to speak to the ones around him. What society did was reject him no matter how much he tried to be like them.

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  37. 1."Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear." In Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein, scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that receives an abundance amount of cruelty from both his creator and society. Which drives him to become vengeful and inflicts pain on those around him.

    2.In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Victor Frankenstein commits a great injustice out of ambition as he creates life only to neglect it the second it comes to life. Leading his creation to feel hatred towards Victor and the rest of society.

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  38. " I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery." In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, victor creates life out of a corpse which turns out to have human capabilities that turn out to be very dreadful. In the quote above, the scene represents the monster showing radical expressions towards regular civilians due to the unability of being accepted into human society, causing him to show hatred and cruelty in various ways. when a person or thing cannot get what they wish for certain emotions and actions arise towards that specific topic which can lead to many different scenarios. Cruelty is represented through the book by various interpretations of emotions and feelings from victor to the monster himself.

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  39. 1) "There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They do not exist..." This proves to be very true for the monster in the gothic novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, as he explores a world he did not ask to be in. The first act of cruelty that the monster experienced is the rejection of his creator, Victor Frankenstein. The monster's first experience with another person was filled with disgust and cruelty. The acts of cruelty and rejection would not stop as he later found himself being hurt by some villagers who thought of him as a freak of nature. All of this molded the fragile being into the very thing that the people feared, a monster. The monster, now fueled with rage, set out to seek revenge on the person who started his suffering.

    2) Victor Frankenstein sought justice for the death of those around him. Frankenstein was quick to blame the monster, but failed to see that the monster was his doing. Anything that the monster did was because Frankenstein neglected him. There were several murders that took place in the novel. Each person being very close and dear to Frankenstien.The monster's desire for revenge was fulfilled. Frankenstein never got justice he fought so hard for.

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  40. 1) “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, Victor tampers with life and creates a monster that instantly makes Victor feel repulsed by it. From that moment the monster is pushed away and is left to be on its own. The monster faces many cruel acts both mentally and physically. The cruel acts help shape the theme of the work by showing how the monster only grows as a person to learn how life works and by doing so it turns the monster into a heartless creature.
    2) “…but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, the monster, who is created by Victor, is neglected for not being everything that Victor had wished for. After being pushed away the monster goes out in search for justice and does so by getting revenge and killing many of Frankenstein’s loved ones.

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  41. 1.) "It was dark when I was awake, I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were instinctively finding myself so desolate." In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, it emphasized the regards of appearances may lead to discomfort and discriminate among them. Every human being is made to to have an opinion to each law, gender, race or color. We humans don't cease to find the right and wrongs of us, we merely just say things to us happy. The monster was taught in ways to understand the lifestyle of humans so he did what he thought was right, which eventually ended in loose ends.

    2.) Victor Frankenstein a man full ambition that lead to his injustice. He will to strive for greatness was what lead to his injustice, where he learned to not play around with the dead. Each living things should runs it course of the cycle of living. All that victor intended to do were to find justice in what he does, but to the society it was injustice.

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  42. 1.) “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein tampers with the Elixir of Life and creates a being of supernatural proportions. Victor then reacts with cruelty and calls the creature of his creation a demon and ultimately results in the creature finding his place in society as an outcast. This first interaction with the creature creates the view of the monster as the victim.

    2.) In the Novel, " Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein creates a creature that Murders his little brother and let's his cousin be wrongfully convicted of the murder when he knows it was the creature of his creation that committed the crime. Victor Frankenstein reacts to this injustice by simply acting as the victim and trying to make it seem as if it wasn't his fault why justine was executed.

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