Mary Shelley "Frankenstein" January 27, 2006

I feel that these technologies definitely affected his feelings as well as his personality. Before discovering the Delaceys he was alone in society. He was essentially a blank slate that experienced only the most basic feelings: hunger, heat, and cold. He was unaware of the capabilities of life that were around him and the feelings that he was able to experience. Therefore, when he was introduced to the Delaceys he slowly became educated about these feelings that he had never before experienced. Knowing that love was available for him to feel, as well as compassion and rejection, led him to experiment with these feelings and eventually make him an unhappy creature. “I improved, however, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavor, for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language, which knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure.” He was able to understand these feelings through watching the Delaceys. Learning the language they spoke as well as understanding the writing that they read led him to even greater anger. However the monster learning these most basic technologies from outsiders through observation rather than being taught them by his creator and teacher, led to the source of his anger. “And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.” He was abandoned by his creator and was forced to learn and experience on his own, lacking the family and companionship that the Delaceys taught him existed. This rejection from creation led to his anger which transited throughout his life as well as his quest for his creator to understand his situation and sympathize like the monster now knew people were capable of feeling. But this anger so controlled his life that it was the most dangerous and violent of angers. This anger possessed the monster’s whole being and fueled his passion for existence, much more violent than any other type of anger. It consumed him and made him violent, desperate to experience not only the technologies created by man, but capable of experiencing the love and passion they held as their own as well.