Frank in Stain

Part One

by DMS

According to Isaiah Berlin, Romantic movement writers often associated with or "connected with the sense of uniqueness, the profound emotional introspection, the sense of the differences of things, dissimilarities rather than similarities" in ideas in their writings (Berlin, Isaiah. The Root of Romanticism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.) This means that Romantic writers speak their opinions; they say that in society people tend to accept and idealize commonalities, as we can see in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. She describes or perhaps shows her argument when she creates the monster character in her novel. Mary Shelley describes the monster as a disproportionate figure, about eight feet tall, with scary looks. Because of his dissimilar appearance, people outcast him from the society.

Let's take a look for a moment. As we know, the monster has a human figure: he has two eyes, two hands, two legs, hair, and a nose. He has no tail and speaks a language that people speak, and his words can easily be understood by common people. Now, comes the question: Why do people in society not accept the monster because of the way he looks? It is apparent that, as a Romantic writer, Shelley speaks her mind through Frankenstein. Through the monster's voice, Shelley says, "Let him [people in society] live with me [who has uncommon or rather deformed looks] in the interchange of kindness" (Shelley 111). Shelley suggests that people should live with acts of kindness without harsh judgment of their appearances.