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The Character of Agathe in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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In 1818 Mary and Percy Shelley and Byron and his doctor, went toItaly.
Percy and Byron were romantic poets, Percy Shelley’s first wife had adaughter but she committed suicide. Mary Shelley was only 19 and hadalready had several miscarriages, she and two other people she knewhad committed suicide; this made her think about death a lot.
Bored one day they decided to write horror stories. Mary Shelleycouldn’t think of anything to write, but she had a nightmare aboutbringing dead people back to life. Galvanism was introduced; anexample of this would be frog’s legs twitching by the use ofelectricity running through them. When she awoke she wrote a shortstory about her nightmare.
To be human means that within a human there are specific feelings. Anexample of this is when the monster tries to be kind and compassionatetowards Agathe in a loving friendly way.
Agathe will and can only judge by personality as it doesn’t matter toher what the appearance is like as to her it is the inside thatcounts. She doesn’t know what he looks like so to her he is a friend.
When Felix enters the room and sees the appearance and of courseknowing he is a monster he judges him by it and doesn’t give him achance to explain. Felix automatically jumps to the conclusion thatbecause he’s a monster and looks like he does he thinks that he istrying to attack Agathe. Felix takes action over what the monsterlooks like he is doing and shoots him.
He has no consideration that the monster may actually be a good guy.He doesn’t think outside the box and doesn’t give him a chance tofigure out what actually happened.
Humans judge on how people look and not on how they act. A primeexample of this is f we saw an ugly person in the street weautomatically that the cant be a good person to get to know, and wont
