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In Shelly's novel, Victor Frankenstein learns how to "infuse a spark of being into lifeless things". He uses this knowledge and creates a living thing. The creature is so hideous that "not even Dante could not have conceived". From the moment he is animated, the wretched creature is an outcast. He is not human; he was not born to a mother or father, or was created by God. Throughout the novel several situations occur that …

…example, instead of eating animals, he ate nuts and berries. He thought they shouldn't be harmed because they did nothing to him. But later in the novel the creature learned to hate, a vice that differentiates humans from animals. An animal is not able to hate another, but a human can. At this instance we know the creature is normal because he acts like a human, thinks like a human, and feels like a human.