When Was The Monster's Journey Created In Frankenstein
At this point in the novel, the monster has already been created. Frankenstein has not quite realized what he has really created, but will soon make the discovery. After Justine’s death, Frankenstein’s spirits turn sorrowful. This prompts him to eventually travel to the summit of Montanvert with hope that it will restore his spirits. In his journey, the monster follows him and this provokes Frankenstein to curse at him and threaten him. Eventually the monster convinces Frankenstein to come into a cave with fire and ice. In this cave, the monster speaks about the events of his life and his confusion. This is where Frankenstein starts to put the pieces together of what exactly he has created. The monster came to him communicating almost as well as a human. Previously, the monster was all strength, grotesque and a physical creature.
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Before, the monster’s strength was the threat he presented, now it is his intellect. Frankenstein is now more aware of his act of creation. The monster is now acting as a human being with wants and needs. The monster’s knowledge making him dangerous goes along with dangerous and destructive knowledge, a theme of this novel. The monster’s intellect and knowledge is/will become a danger. The monster continues to observe the neighbors that live around him. He eventually begins to learn the language they are speaking and eventually masters it. He begins to study their emotional and social patterns, even more so when he can fully understand the language, but this leads to the monster understanding that he is far from receiving kindness back from the people and that he is different from the other humans. Knowledge is permanent and can rarely be reversed. Both Frankenstein and the monster have now comed to realize that knowledge can be dangerous with consequences. This is confirming the destructive knowledge theme incorporated into the
Before, the monster’s strength was the threat he presented, now it is his intellect. Frankenstein is now more aware of his act of creation. The monster is now acting as a human being with wants and needs. The monster’s knowledge making him dangerous goes along with dangerous and destructive knowledge, a theme of this novel. The monster’s intellect and knowledge is/will become a danger. The monster continues to observe the neighbors that live around him. He eventually begins to learn the language they are speaking and eventually masters it. He begins to study their emotional and social patterns, even more so when he can fully understand the language, but this leads to the monster understanding that he is far from receiving kindness back from the people and that he is different from the other humans. Knowledge is permanent and can rarely be reversed. Both Frankenstein and the monster have now comed to realize that knowledge can be dangerous with consequences. This is confirming the destructive knowledge theme incorporated into the