They died because they couldn't learn. That's it. These people weren’t thinking about what they were doing, or perhaps even more frightening, they never did. In the early 1800s, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley introduced her Gothic novel Frankenstein an elaborate and extensive work that when further analyzed introduces unique and compelling characters that at times resemble that of an enigma. One in particular character Frankenstein’s monster was exposed to an environment in which it was unable to benefit from typical social interactions, giving it a poor start in social intelligence. Early interactions with dangers and humans seemed unforgiving and interactions with such things were poorly executed. The main and first true admiration of the monster, …show more content…
One of the first times the monster is hurt is from the fire. The monster discovers fire and burns himself, this may have been due to a clear lack of data about the world (Dunning 85-86). Later, the monster wanders into a village and is forced away, even when strangers meet, if they look-alike, they would recognize them as a friend, but the monster is just a monster so they get scared (Gueguen 255). The monster then wanders back to find a hut and lies down in the cold, not learning from his actions or improving just getting upset. Researchers suggest happiness comes from self-love mostly, the monster clearly is looking in the wrong place (Baumeister …show more content…
The monster sees a young girl running, she slips and falls into a stream. The monster then goes and pulls her out of the water. Men see the monster and then shoot him thinking he is going to hurt her. This suggests a lack of altruism, of people in regard to the monster due to a lack of similarities. (Gueguen 257). The monster then later spots a young man walking in the woods, William. The monster assumes he can raise the child and have it love him. The young man, however, does not appreciate this and gets hysterical. The monster then strangles him and kills him. The monster is unable to self-regulate and therefore murders a young boy, this is a pattern is apparent with children with no parents. (Baumeister 10-11). The monster then goes and frames an innocent girl named Justine. The monster puts a portrait in her pocket and so she is assumed to have killed William. When faced with two options, one decision ultimately wins over the other. The monster was faced with accepting the crime or framing somebody and the latter of the two won out. This suggests the monster has no mechanism for overriding a decision or self-stopping (Baumeister