Dracula: Love Story or Horror?

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear the monster said to Victor Frankenstein. Throughout Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Victor rejects the very creature he had toiled over and been obsessed with for so long. After months of laboring, the creature finally comes to life. Instead of being overjoyed and ecstatic, Victor fears what he has created. He is terrified and flees from the creature. He forsakes the creature out of repulsion because of its deformities. As a result, the creature terrorizes Victors friends and family. One may argue that Frankenstein was a monster only because had influenced him to be that way. In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley demonstrates through characterization, setting, and irony that every child needs and deserves nurturing when they are born in order to make them emotionally human.

Because Doctor Frankenstein abandons his creation, the creature is mistrusting and has no choice but to learn the ways of life on his own. The creature is hurled into a world of prejudice and misunderstanding. The creature is like any other baby. It hungers for attention. It seeks love and compassion. The creature engages other humans, but is beaten. He does not comprehend, and is wounded emotionally by this interaction. The creature eventually observes the De Lacey family. Hes enthralled by the family. He is caring towards them. He picks their vegetable. He shovels pathways for Agatha. My heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition. Its apparent the creature cares for this family. But when the monster presents himself to the De Laceys, he is not greeted with the same adoration he has for the family. Instead he is rejected and beaten by them. In turn, the creatures trust turns to malice and he declares war against all humans.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley further demonstrates that setting also plays a significant role in the emotional development of a child. The creature spends a great deal of time near Ingolstadt. After leaving the dormitory, the monster travels to a nearby village. There he is surrounded by the townspeople who immediately reject and beat him. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel . From the very beginning, the monster was given all the worst circumstances. He was immersed in a setting of mistrust, violence, and hate. In turn, he lashed out with the very same hate those around him had misappropriated towards him. If the monster had been introduced into a nurturing setting and environment, it is plausible the monster would had been more accepting of others and treated others with respect instead of violence.

Finally, Mary Shelleys writing demonstrates the importance of nurturing through irony. Victor Frankenstein created the very monster that killed his family. Ironically, Victor does not believe he is to blame. Instead, Victor believe he is a victim in Mary Shelleys story and free of guilt. I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me. I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of a crime. If Victor would have nurtured his creation from the beginning and raised it to have a moral compass, there would be no victims and therefore nothing to take any blame for.

In conclusion, it was Victor Frankensteins initial rejection of the monster that led to creatures disdain for humans. The monster sought out vindication for the way it had been treated by others. If the monster had been nurtured by its creator and treated with compassion by others, it would never have become a monster in the first place. A child requires guidance and nurturing in order to grow and develop. Nurturing is what makes an individual emotionally human. The Frankenstein monster was brought into the world as a child that was abandoned, mistreated, and abused. Without nurturing a child may grow into a monster.

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