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=**Where am I going to refer to other sources other than Frankenstein?**=

Outline I. Introduction
 * A. Thesis: By emphasizing the creation of the monster and its difference to the human's history, Mary Shelly notes that evolution is better than revolution (I hate my thesis statement. I'm going to fix it)

II. Differences in the monster and humans "I heard of the difference of sexes; of the birth and growth of children; how the father doated on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child; how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapt up in the precious charge; how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge; of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds." (146) "...obtained a cursory knowledge of history, and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth." (144) "He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle, and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honor that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm." (145)
 * A. Humans
 * 1. Creation of man
 * 2. Analysis: Human's development is an evolution.
 * 3. Ruins of Empires
 * 4. Analysis: Humans have a history which one can read and understand how human's society has developed through centuries.
 * B. Creation of the Monster
 * 1. "I collected bones from charnel houses..." (82) "I saw and heard of none like me." (145) " No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses" (146) "Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was." (156)
 * 2. Analysis: The creation of the monster is a revolution. It doesn't have a history.
 * 3. "I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars...How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!" (130), "...I quickly collected some branches; but they were wet, and would not burn." (130) "In this emigration, I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident, and knew not how to re-produce it." (131)
 * 4. Analysis: Prometheus gave fire to humans and taught them how to control it. The fire sparked the beginning of civilizations. Yet the monster obtained it from "some wandering beggars" and don't know "how to re-produce it." Such difference denotes a clear distinction between the monster and humans.

III. the author ultimately notes that evolution is better than revolution
 * A. French Revolution
 * 1. "The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth, rather than the crime alleged against him, had been the cause of his condemnation." (147)
 * 2. Analysis
 * B. Sublimity of Nature
 * 1. "...wonderful and sublime." (121) "...immense mountains and precipices overhanging us on every side, and heard the sound of the river raging among rocks, and the dashing of waterfalls around." (121) "But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings." (121) "I remembered the effects that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy. The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind, and causing me to forget the passing cares of life." (123)
 * 2. Analysis
 * C. Victor's final rejection to create a female monster.
 * 1. "...the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth, who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror." (190) "...and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal..." (190) "She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man." (190)
 * 2. Analysis on the ultimate catastrophic consequence at the end of a revolution.

IV. Point Three For Mary Shelley, Prometheus was not a hero but rather something of a devil, whom she blamed for bringing fire to man and thereby seducing the human race to the vice of eating meat. "My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment." (170)
 * BUT the brutality of men is a part of the evolution of the human race.

V. Conclusion

Grand Canyon’s sublimity is not created by a single revolution. Its --- beauty is shaped by erosion and erosion, --- and ---: a continuous evolution of gradual changes. This natural law still stands in human course of history. In Frankenstein, Victor should have known that his creation—the monster—was a dangerous revolution in scientific field that could not be permitted in the evolution of this world. The danger of acquiring knowledge does not come from one’s broadened perception in the world but in its bold challenge to take a radical change in evolution, which the nature does not permit. What Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly ultimately proposes at the end of the novel is simple but eerie; the evolution is better than revolution.