Prejudice in Frankenstein

Everyone who sees the creature screams, shoots or runs. Only a blind man talks to him. He is judged by his face before he says a word.

The quotes

10 quotes, in the order they happen.

the miserable monster whom I had created

Victor · Chapter 5 · creation · prejudice

Victor's first name for his creation. Monster. He decides what it is before it has done anything.

His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath

Victor · Chapter 5 · creation · prejudice

The creature is ugly. Thin yellow skin, black lips, watery eyes. Victor cannot look at him.

I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created

Victor · Chapter 5 · prejudice · creation

The creature comes to his bed and reaches out. Victor sees only a wretch and runs.

Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity

Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation

The creature says he was good. He wanted to love. People made him what he is.

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!

Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation

Everyone hates the unlucky. And nobody is as unlucky as him.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation

I was good. Being miserable turned me bad. Make me happy again.

Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?

Creature · Chapter 13 · prejudice · isolation

He sees himself in water for the first time and learns what he looks like. He asks if he really is a monster.

I am malicious because I am miserable.

Creature · Chapter 17 · revenge · isolation · prejudice

I am bad because I am unhappy. Make me happy and I will be good. His whole argument in six words.

the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil

Victor · Chapter 24 · prejudice · revenge

An angel that falls turns into a devil. Victor's view of the creature, in the creature's own words from earlier.

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.

Creature · Walton's last letters · isolation · prejudice · responsibility

His last speech, over Victor's body. Abandoned. Kicked. Something that should not have been born.