frankenstien - page 6
Keywords: frankenstien
By Paul John Carew on 26/03/2009
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 6 of 7 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
up. Th creature got violently attacked. The creature is a victim of human beings and that is the opposite of what we would expect. We would expect the creature to be stomping around trying to kill humans not run away from them.
I circled two words from the passage. "Grievously" and "fearfully" this shows how scared the creature really is.
"Lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemecy of the season". this shows that despite the fact all hes hes got to live in is a small cold shelter that get referred to later on as a kennel the creature is still happy. The creature doesnt feel sorry for himself at all. He thinks hes living the life of royalty living in this shelter. "pig- sty and a clear pool of water" these are terrible conditions no humn should have to live in them. "I ate my breakfast with pleasure" The creature thinks hes in paradise, He thinks hes staying in a five star hotel.
"In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink I through which the eye could just penatrate". The creature was looking through a small hole that you could hardly see through. This shows that he is an outsider. But the creature sits there watching the family through the crack this this shows that he comes to love them.
"He played a sweet mornful air." He is viewing the family with wonder he loves them. He thinks they are the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. The monster realises from looking at the family that humans are capable of making beauty.
In conclusion to the story Mary Shelly creates sympathy for the creature in the way she uses emotive language towards the creature. I think Mary does create sympathy for the creature by using Frankenstien as a kind of bully. Mary uses a chinese box technique to tell the story. I think that this is a good technique because it gives both characters a chance to tell there own version of events. The creature ges to tell the readers his story and from this he gained much sympathy from the viewers. The creatures story has a big impact on the readers. The emotive language and the poetic talk makes us feel sympathy for the creature because he is a sensitive character he just needed to be shown the right way to go. The
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