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How does Stevenson complicate the idea of the human monster as compared to Frankenstein?
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Stevenson complicates the idea of the human monster by suggesting that a monster lives inside of each one of us. Dr.Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde are in fact two sides of one man. Stevenson implies that bringing the monster that lives within each of us to the surface is nothing more than an act of flipping a switch. We do not need to create a monstrous being out side of our selves we need only to look within to find a being capable of unspeakable deeds. In a since Stevenson shows us that humans are monsters. Most do not act on their monstrous urges often but it is always there. Stevenson tells us what we do not want to hear but, know is true: in the right situation anyone of us can be a monster. However, in Frankenstein it seems a monster must be created rather by a human or by the actions of a human. Frankenstein implies that a human monster is made as a reaction to outside circumstances not inbreed from birth or creation. Frankenstein's monster was "born" gentle and sensitive and only became evil and monstrous as a reaction to the constant rejection and poor treatment he received. This would lead one to believe that monsters are not born but made or shaped.
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Stevenson complicated by writing about one single individual being good at some point, and being mean, and evil at another. Frankenstein to me was not a monster, he was creature that was created with good intentions. This creature was not created to hurt anyone. Frankenstein actually helped individuals when possible, like the family he tried to help. Stevenson wrote of a an individual living two lives. The individual was good by day, and evil by night. The story he wrote about the individual was living a double life. Shelley, on the other hand just wrote about one particular creature that people thought was evil, due to the way he looked. I don't recall any killing being done by the creature Frankenstein, but in Stevenson's writing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde you read about individuals being hurt by this fictional character. Like the part where the man tramples over the screaming child and leaves her for dead. That's just to name a one incident of his short stories. Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde is a human being with evil intentions not having any remorse whatsoever. Then his writings are so well written that it make you really believe that such a man did exist. Robert Louis Stevenson, "Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other Tales of Terror", England,1999
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