Monday, April 22, 2013
Frankenstein
Victor wanted to create something beautiful and sublime, instead getting a monstrous creature. What if the creature had come out aesthetically picturesque and pleasing? Would both Victor and the community be more patient and understanding? They would know the truth of how it was created - unnaturally with bits and pieces of humans and animals - but because its beautiful would they be accepting, or still see it as monstrous on the sole basis of what it is; not a natural being. If the creature looked like a normal person, would Victor and the community be more willing to work with it in order to teach it to be like them? To be more human? If so, would they always secretly live in fear of what is inside of the creature?
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To me, I think that if it looked more human, they would have accepted him more easily, but not completely. His looks would have been different, but his thoughts and his learning would still be the same. He'd be the same in his mind, but I think his actions would have differed slightly. He may have become a monster quicker if people rejected him solely on who he was and how he acted, not his normal human looks because it's scary to find something that's so different from normality. It's even scarier to find something that's so different from normality yet carries the face that you have as well.
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