With references to chapters five and seven in what ways does Mary Shelly create sympathy for the cre - page 5
Keywords: Frankenstien
By Paul John Carew on 26/03/2009
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 5 of 7 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
confused.
The creature seems very poetic he uses phrases like "Orb of night". He seems very sensitive and he is very kind to nature. The creature also quotes "I was delighted when i first discovered that pleasent sound". and "little winged animal". He loves the sounds of the birds. When the birds started singng it brought a lump to the creatures throat. This shows that he is sensitive and caring.
" Sometimes i wished to express my own sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate which broke from me, frightened me into silence agian". The creature is frightened of his own voice. The creature wants to sing and set his emotions free, he wants to express himself but as soon as he opens his mouth to sing his voice puts him back to silence again because he hasnt been taught how to speak.
"In my joy i thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain". This once again makes us feel sympathy for the creature because he hasnt been taught not to put his hand in fires. He doesnt know what fire is and what the effect of fire is.
"How strange i thought, that ihe same cause should produce such opposite effect!" this is a scentific sentence. The creature speaks with intellegence. The creature uses scientific language to talk to Frankenstien. All the way through his life hes been teaching himself to do things like e.g. build a fan "a fan of branches" He's had no guidence and has brought himself up.
"And knew not how to reproduce it". The fire burnt out and the creature doesnt know how to get it started again.
Shelly presents the creature as a tabula casa (blank sheet). She seems to be saying that no one is bad from the start and its your own experiences that turn you into a bad person. "To know all is to forgive all". People you bump into in life may be dodgey or something but there must be a reason why there like that so you must look back and see there experiences and see why there like that so this is like the creature he is bad because he had to fend for himslf in life.
"I escaped to the open country". The creature is running away in fear of the human beings after they had just beat him
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