Frankenstein Overall Impression of the Book

Overall, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was a well written book that contains many depths and complexities. The story has many characters that bring up a wealth of emotions. The brilliance of the story to me, is that Shelley was able to make a ugly disgusting monster that is so easily related to. It is pure brilliance to make something that is so easy to hate so easy to love. The monster's "Yellow skin scarcely covered his work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly witness  but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his water eyes..."(Shelley, 35). Even though the monster kills people and has disgusting yellow skin, Shelley is able to make the reader pity the creature. The reader feels sorry for the events that have happened to the creature. All the creature wanted was love, and when that was not given back to him, he was forced to make it for himself. While the monster shouldn't have killed so many people, I cannot blame it because of how he was treated by humanity. This story shows that there is a consequence to actions, and because of the rejection of the creature, he lashed out onto humanity.