Topic > Essay on Good and Evil in Victor Frankenstein - 1495

Knowledge, especially that concerning what is right or wrong, good or bad, can be derived when one knows what is being done. The monster knew the act of killing others out of anger from its creator, Victor. Thus demonstrating the evil within the monster. The anger of its creator throughout the story proves enough information. At first it seems that the definitions of good and evil are clear. The definition of good in the dictionary is a person who has good morals, is kind and loyal. Victor Frankenstein describes this perfectly at the beginning of the book. Evil can be defined as anything that compromises a person's happiness or deprives him of any good; everything that causes suffering of any kind to sensitive people, such as wounds or damage to beings, this opposite to good, is death. But when the monster, who is indifferent and horrified by what, this contrasts with what the reader will see before this event is created, Frankenstein was a loving family man who had deep respect and generosity. Mary Shelley uses a pathetic weather fallacy, an example of this is when Victor Frankenstein created the monster. "It was a sad November evening when I saw the fruition of my labors. Because of this constant use of pathetic fallacies, the reader can see when things are about to go wrong, such as when Lacey was rejected by the monster or when Elizabeth was killed , these events occurred in winter and stormy conditions. Winter is a time of destruction and is also the time when the monster was created and most of Victor Frankenstein's family was killed. This could also explain some behaviors of the monster, because he was created in winter, the season of destruction and not the spring season of life and the new beginning of his creation was unnatural and evil