Frankenstein's Identity Crisis
You are who you are, and it is as simple as that. But what truly defines who you are? The definition of an identity is the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another. This is simple for anybody, simply giving your name and some family background would satisfy the questioning of one's identity. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, when a monster is created, it does not have the luxury of a name or a family, but desires one as all people do. The Monster must create his own identity using the broken pieces to his life's own puzzle with no one to help him. He is riddled with obstacles, the largest being his grotesque appearance making it impossible to gain aid in finding out who he truly is. The Monster's physical makeup confuses his outlook on himself and his identity.
The Monster's unnatural birth as Victor Frankenstein's creation causes identity confusion.
Farnkenstein monster
A portrayal of Frankenstein's Monster, using prost...
Frankenstein's Monster at the Witch's Dungeon Clas...As an experiment, Victor created the Monster from dead, rotting corpses found from cemeteries and morgues. This proves that the Monster is not even whole physically; he is constructed using the pieces of the forgotten dead. The pieces being second hand body parts also shows that Victor doesn't consider how it will affect the Monster when he is created. It does not occur to Dr. Frankenstein that being made up of decayed pieces of flesh will cause the Monster to have a negative outlook on himself. The Monster also was confused about his very existence when he realized God had not created him, but he created by a human. Victor never thought of the Monster as an individual, but as a science experiment that would be alive without the emotions of the human he aimed at recreating. When the Monster was camping out...