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The Power Of Mind Versus The Power Of Appearance In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The so-called monster in Frankenstein demonstrates, through his own problems with understanding and being understood by the world, the importance and power of language on the one hand ....

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.... anything but a monstrosity is when William Frankenstein, the younger brother of his creator and also a young and hopefully unprejudiced child, proves to see him the way any adult would, with disgust and horror. After completing the act of killing the child, he resolves to "carry despair to [Victor Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him" (p. 137). According to the monster, the function of appearance is to make society react to you. Whether the reaction is appropriate or not is beside the point; all that matters is the way you look. Then we have language and communication. The first time he encounters spoken word ....