To what extent do you sympathise with Frankensteins monster in chapter 11?

Chapter 11 is basically the monster telling his story. Told through the monster himself. Throughout this chapter he does make the audience sympathise with him as he describes many human qualities that a conventional monster generally wouldn't have. He describes how he "Sat and wept" His tale is really depressing he describes how he felt frighten and how he was cold because of this the audience can relate to his human side and i think this is the first chapter in which the story is told from the other side therefore you can understand the monster more and forget that he is in fact a monster. I think this is done deliberatley by shelley to make the audience question their own morality. I think also it is still reletive to our society ... race and sexuallity seem no longer to be that much of an issue but faced with a monster or something else unknown would we as a society be as accepting as we feel we would be or would we react in the same way that Victor did. On the other hand it could be different based on the terms that Victor created the monster ... therefore he naturally should be faced with some form or meternal responsibility even though he doesn't so the argument could be argued from many different sides but it doesn'[t change the fact that during this chapter you do sympathise with the monster. I think that any human would sympathise with the monster simply because this chapter ... because the narative is from the monster veiw point, makes you forget that he is a monster because of all the descriptions about human emotions, fears and qualities. He shares the same ambitions with humans on the terms that he just wants to be accepted and/or loved by somebody or something. Dont we all deserve that?

In this chapter also ... and in previous and following chapters i see the monster as Victors "Dead romantic" side. Whilst creating the monster, for the two years, Victor lost this romantic side of him, the monster now claims that he finds solice in nature. We can relate that to victor because its simply showing that the monster has more or less inherreted some of this romantisim. The monster almost give you a consistent reminder that he is so linked to Victor yet they both dont know it. Its quite odd.

I sympathise with them both simply because this chapter really reveals both sides of the story, you can sympathise with Victor because he is scared himself, and after seeing the monsters eyes, he realised the extent of what he has done. On the other hand, Victor should have tried to accept the monster instead of abandoning him because obviously it wasn't the monsters fault that he was created and he needed to be taught the lessons in life.

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Morality without God

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Frankenstein chapter 11

Q - What techniques does Mary Shelley use to make the reader feel sympathetic towards the monster? in chapter 11



"I sat down and wept" - This shows that although the "monster" isn't accepted as human he has some form of human qualities in the way that he feels and expresses his emotions. Through crying.



"Monster" - Just even the fact that he doesn't have a name would make us sympathise with him because he has been totally rejected before he was accepted. He didn't even get a chance but moreover it wasn't his fault that he was created.



"I felt cold and half frightened"