Part F: Being Human

To be human, you must be able to feel emotions. You must have certain characteristics that set you apart from everyone else even if in only the slightest sense. Mary Shelley sais that a human has friends and family, they can feel pain, they can laugh and cry, even at the same time. I do not believe the creature is the most human figure in the book because even as it demonstrates practically all of the main traits of a real human, there are some instances where it does not act as one would. For example, when Felix attacks it, it does not fight back as what the majority of humans would do. I'm not suggesting the creature isn't human at all, quite the opposite, but I don't think you can go as far as to label it the most human character in the novel. I believe humans are shallow and judgemental because of the sole reason that society has made us this way. The creature best represents being pure and non-judgemental because he hasn't grown up in a society that promotes it, so essentially he is a new born baby with the knowledge of an adult. This I believe makes the creature less human because to be human now, means to be the complete opposite of what the creature is.