Frankenstein
Many lessons are embedded into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bantam Books 1991),
including how society acts towards the different. 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 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 crowd and banned for the reason of
being different. When the monster ventured into a town he "had hardly placed [his] foot
within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted" . From that
moment on he realized that people did not like his appearance and hated him because of it.
If villagers didn't run away at the sight of him, then they might have even enjoyed his
personality. The monster tried to accomplish this when he encountered the De......
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