| Is the name Monster
really a proper name? Does this creature borne of science and ingenuity
deserve the name reserved for the foulest of Earth's creatures? Consider
this: The "Monster" is more compassionate than its creator. He
too has a heart, as Victor Frankenstein is unable to see. |
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| A true villain is a person with no regard for humanity; someone who is truly cruel and unjust. It is easy to contrast the Monster to Saddam Hussein, one of the many great evils that plague the Earth. Whereas the Monster is kindhearted but driven to revenge, Saddam is cruel without thought. Saddam has committed acts that any man can see as cruel. The killing of head Ba'ath officials, gassing of over 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, and rule through fear that Saddam use are the aspects of a true villain. | |||
| The Monster is a villain only to those afraid of his grotesque features and to Frankenstein. Reading literature and seeking companionship are in no way a villain is created. Rather, Frankenstein abandons his own creation he was so eager to create. "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me" (Shelley 47), he says, but he is unable to provide what he wished to his creation. "Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions; but revenge remains…" (Shelley 179). | |||
| The Monster's
villainous ways are brought on by the cruelty acted upon him by the human
race. Even his good acts were condemned as evil. "This was then the
reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and,
as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound…"
(Shelley 149) Saddam and the Monster are very different indeed. Whereas one villain is cruel beyond imagination, the other is kind, but haunted by rejection. |
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