Perception In Frankenstein

We tend to judge people first by appearance, followed by personality. Any uncomfortable appearance may make us categorize them as a monster and any discomfort personality, for example a psychopath, may also be categorized as a monster. “Would a “civilized” society form angry mobs to hunt someone solely because he is different or even curse “them” without taking the effort to truly get to know “them”?”. (Gillis). We tend to discriminate without realizing the actual truth.
The true monster is a matter of perspective; human often feel threatened towards “monsters” because they think it might harm or even kill humans. This instinct is not just part of human nature, but it’s part of all creatures. Even animals have a sense of danger instinct that …show more content…
Human perception and how our mind works are sometimes confusing as we perceive something dangerous to us as monster. However, we are the chief cause of certain living beings to go extinct. We are killing them slowly by destroying their habitat and that causes them to suffer until death. We are the only creature that cuts down trees, to make paper and write “Save the trees” and also we force animals from their natural habitat into cages at the zoo for our mere entertainment. We also built factories to make accessories from animal skin for fashion. Imagine that we made a bag out of human skin, we will indirectly say that the owner is a …show more content…
This indicates that some humans have personality of monster. Humans always do what is the best for them without considering surrounding creatures. We indirectly can be categorized as a monster in animal’s perspective. Now, when comparing humans with monsters, try to think of humans as the weaker creature. Monster hunts us for our skin and meat, we are being caged so monsters can watch us, and we are being tortured for the experiments. We may say that it’s so cruel without realizing the truth that it is actually the humans that behave and think like