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Rejection - Research Paper

Rejection

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is a complex novel that was written during the age of Romanticism. It contains many typical themes of a common Romantic novel such as dark laboratories, the moon, and a monster. Many lessons are set into this novel, including how society acts towards the extraordinary. The monster fell victim to the system commonly used to characterize a person by only his or her outer appearance. Whether people like it or not, society always summarizes a person's characteristics by his or her physical appearance.
Society has set an unbreakable code individuals must follow to be accepted. Those who don't follow the "standard" are hated by the multitude and banned for the ...

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from the old man and eventually his children. He knew that it could have been possible because the old man was blind; he could not see the monster's repulsive characteristics. But fate was against him and the "wretched" had barely conversed with the old man before his children returned from their journey and saw a monstrous creature at the foot of their father attempting to do harm to the helpless man. "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore [the creature] from his father..." (Shelley 142). Felix's action caused great inner pain to the monster. He knew that his dream of living with them "happily ever after" would not happen. After that bitter moment the monster believed that "...the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union [with the monster]" (Shelley 153) and with the De Lacey encounter still fresh in his mind along with his first encounter of humans, he declared war to the human race.
The wicked being's source of abhorrence toward humans ...

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Added: 11/3/2008 08:11:17 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
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