In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, many new relationships are
created. The creature, however, usually only
manages to create bad ones with the people around him. When the creature meets the blind father of
the DeLacy family, he is initially treated kindly. Once he meets Felix, Safie, and Agatha,
however, this new relationship is quickly ruined. The creature says that Felix “…darted forward,
and with supernatural force tore me from his father… in a transport of fury, he
dashed me to the ground, and struck me violently with a stick (94).” All of the creature’s opportunities to create
new relationships are ruined by his frightening appearance.
The
creature’s relationship with Victor Frankenstein was also ruined by his
appearance. Victor described the
creature as having “…yellow skin [that] scarcely covered the work of muscles
and arteries beneath...” and luxuriously beautiful teeth and hair that “…only
formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the
dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and
straight black lips (35).” When Victor saw
the creature that he created he said that “…breathless horror and disgust
filled my heart (36).” Frankenstein was
horrified at the creature he had created solely because of his appearance. He was unable to see past this in order to
truly understand the creature. Due to
this reaction, the relationship that was created between Victor Frankenstein
and the creature also turned out to be a very bad one.
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