Examples Of Monstrosity In Frankenstein

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What Drives Monstrosity? Looking at the world that surrounds us monstrosity is everywhere. Even good people do monstrous things. Monstrosity is driven by four things: family, loyalty, love, and society. Monstrosity can be found in every aspect of pop culture. Can monstrosity be fought even when it surrounds everyone and everything? Is monstrosity an inevitable fate? Modern television and classic literature delve into these questions and explore the many aspects of monstrosity. Frankenstein the infamous novel by Mary Shelley demonstrates what it takes to creates monstrosity. The monster in the novel is clearly rejected by his family and society leading him to commit unthinkable acts. Even though Frankenstein was written in the 1800’s it proves …show more content…
Victor is the offspring of an extremely interesting family background. His mother Caroline is the daughter of his fathers’ good friend. Consequently, Victors’ mother is much younger than his father. The strangeness does not stop there; Elizabeth an orphan is adopted into the Frankenstein clan when she is a child. Elizabeth is also promised to marry Victor. This is highly looked down upon in society and would be considered incestuous. He attends college and becomes restless because he thinks he is too intelligent for his classes. Then comes his ultimate monstrous act; Victor’s creation the monster. The way the monster is created is highly unnatural and unfathomable. Once Victor gave the monster life “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart” (Mary Shelley, 55). Victor valued the need for a real familial love so much that he went to such extremes to get it. Once he realized the magnitude of what he had really done he wanted to take it back. The monster at this point has done nothing monstrous but yet Victor still views him as this horrible being. Victor never gives the monster a chance to be his son and teach him to be good. He describes the monster who is supposed to be his “child” as a thing that fills his heart with disgust. The heart is an organ that we associate with love and turning it into an organ of hatred means that Victor …show more content…
Wes and Victor have a need for a loving companion and they both seek this out in different forms. For Victor, his creation of the monster gives him the love he is seeking or so he thinks. Wes, on the other hand, displays his loyalty to his professor and his fellow interns this, in turn, is what gives him the familial love he is searching for. A scene in How to get Away with Murder that perfectly portrays Wes as a monster is in season two episode nine. Wes, the gang of interns, and Professor Keating have just committed a murder and are now faced with the trouble of trying to cover it up. In an attempt to get one of the interns to shoot her in the leg Annalise illustrates how she betrayed each and every one of them. This does not work on any of the students except when she arrives to Wes. Annalise turns to look at Wes with tears in her eyes and shouts how she knows where his dead friend Rebecca is and how she betrayed his trust by not telling him. Wes then becomes furious and stares Annalise directly in the eye in a poorly lit room with tears rolling down his face saying nothing at all. He pulls the trigger on his only living parental figure and shoots her in the stomach. Annalise in an effort to stop him from shooting her again mutters the name “Christophe…. Christophe…. Christophe” (What Did We Do?). The fact that Wes is sent over the edge by Annalise admittedly
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