Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: The Monster in the Novel by Mary Shelley.

Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: The Monster in the Novel by Mary Shelley. He is built from the body parts of various dead people. His complexion is ghastly and his aspect terrifying, not as a mark of past evil deeds, but merely of his unnatural birth. Even at the moment of creation, he looks so horrifying that even Victor, his creator, is afraid of him and abandons him. Victor does not understand that he has to take responsibility for his actions and is obliged to understand and care for the hideous-looking new life he has created. Of his own admission, the monster is just the result of an experiment in his quest for knowledge, and he just wishes it out of his life.

The monster blunders into the world in pain. cold, miserable, hungry and clueless, through no fault of his own. His suffering knows no bounds, he is at the mercy of nature, with no idea on how to cope with his situation. This is how he describes his foray into the world to Victor, later in the course of the novel: "I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch. I knew, and could distinguish nothing. but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept". (Chapter 11) The reader encounters a pitiable creature, abject and pathetic, and here the concept of multiple narrations helps the reader understand the monster better because the reader gets to hear his plight in his own words. In the beginning, the monster is terrified of the villagers on being persecuted, and escapes with a readiness totally at odds with his great size and menacing appearance : "The whole village was mused. some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country, and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel.