There is one time where the monster deserves society's sympathy. This is seen through the response of Walton on page 163. The monster said over the dead Victor, "that is also my victim" pg 163. By Victor's death the monster is now free from the murders of the others. Yet the monster was indeed the death of Victor. However, Walton had suspended his duty to kill the monster by a "mixture of curiosity and compassion" pg163. The monster displays deep remorse for Victor's death on page 164. In the end Walton lets the monster go. The monster goes forth to die a lonely death. Hence, sympathy is made complete with that notion on page 166.

In my most humble opinion i do not think that the monster had earned any sympathy. On page 106 Victor states, "I tried to stifle these sensations; i thought, that as could not sympathise with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to behold." No one, not even his creator wants to sympathize with the monster. The monster cares not for the human beings around him. He killed Justine, William, Henry and Elizabeth out of revenge and anger toward Frankenstien. Further more this was only because on page 122, Frankenstien breaks his promise to make a female companion for the monster. This is when the monster commences to kill Henry and vow to kill Elizabeth on her wedding night.

Victor Frankenstein is the antagonist of the book. Primarily because he created the monster in the first place. The moment he sparked life in the chest of the monster, he brought the deaths of william, Justine, Henry and elizabeth on his head. He is guilty as the master mind behind the monsters creation. Frankenstein was also quite a frazzled and irrational man. He spent months at a time in bed or ill after the slightest trauma. On pages 68-70 the monster displays a cool and even demeanor. This is because he has studied and developed himself by himself and has done his think for himself. However, Victor "shudder to reflect" on the origin of the monster shows how ignorant and self centered he is. He worries about himself and his life and protecting the knowledge he has gained from other people. He wants it all to himself. Yet by doing so he consumes himself with hatred toward the "devil" he has created. He is guilty for killing all of those people

I have reason to believe that the monster is the protagonist in this story of Frankenstein. Although Victor had created the monster to be something beautiful, it did not turn out that way. The monster became something hideous in the eyes of Victor. However, the monster was rational with his feelings. He had educated himself about the basic and good fundamentals of life. On page 68 Victor calls the monster a "devil" and one who would incur his wrath. The monster says that he "expected this reception" from Victor. He scold Victor asking "How dare you thus sport with life?" pg 68. The monster identifies himself as a "fallen angel". One who was made by man and is lower than man. The monster is right to bring vengeance against Victor. He is left to be alone. He is left in complete isolation with none to feel the way that he feels. Yet, he reads and understands with such a sound rationale that Victor does not have for himself.

I do believe that this has struck a very interesting interpretation. Victor's initial desire for his scientific studies was to make life even more beautiful. His creation would populate earth and his findings would rid the world of death and disease. However, when the focus turned from desire to help humanity to passionate desire for self gain p34. Therefore, he closed himself off from humanity and fixated on his work and his scientific avances. We now come to the point where he discovers his folly and realizes that "he ( speaking of the monster) was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have concieved" p36. Victor is so distraught. He intended good but has inversely created something to terrible and horrifying. Nothing can compete with humanity as it is. No imitation can override the basic principles of human interaction and being. The complexity is to great to be matched.

These two chapters reveal that Victor and Henry are not necessarily opposites. Rather, Henry is the potter and Victor is the clay. On page 38 Victor said, “I was not the witness of his grief; for I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.” This was when Victor fell ill and weak from years of sleep deprivation and malnutrition. While he was ill “Henry was [his] only nurse.” Henry spent months nursing Victor back to health. However, Victor fell victim to episodes of terror when he thought of the monster he had created. Henry was there to calm Victor of his terror. When Henry saw that Victor suffered from nervous symptoms of the sight of his instruments of chemistry, Henry “removed all[his] apparatus from[his] view” p43. Now that the thought of natural philosophy thoroughly disgusted Victor, he took it upon himself to study Oriental languages like his friend Henry. Victor said of the studies, “their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country. When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses, in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart” p44. These studies had worked to restore Victor’s spirits. It was the influence of Henry. To Victor, Henry “had always been [his] favorite companion in the rambles of this nature that had taken among the scenes of my native country” p. 45. This revelation that Henry’s influence has molded and revived Victor has many implications of the interpretation of the work, Frankenstein. Personally, even though Victor is strong and healthy again, I think that Henry could use his influence to manipulate Victor. Henry could possibly turn out to be the male tyrant that is one of the gothic devices that identifies it as a romantic piece of literature.

This is debatable....no pun intended. lol. You say that protectionism impedes economic growth. It is actually quite the contrary. Protectionism allows countries to build themselves up from the inside and create self-reliance. It protects contries from lossing their comparative advantage.

Protectionism protects the local industry from monopolistic competition from large and powerful overseas competitors. Protectionists believe that allowing foreign goods to enter domestic markets without being subject to tariffs or other forms of taxation, leads to a situation where domestic goods are at a disadvantage, a kind of reverse protectionism. By ruling out revenue tariffs on foreign products, governments must rely solely on domestic taxation to provide its revenue, which falls on domestic manufacturing. Therefore, protection helps out the common man such as the private business man and the farmer.

The biggest advantage of protectionism is that it promotes development of the basic capabilities of countries to produce goods and services efficiently by providing them with a protected market during the period when they are developing. This develops a strong sense of self-reliance in the countries that practice protectionism. The ability to provide for and develop from the inside makes a country stronger and protects it from harm of outside interference. This interference is that everyone desires the absolute advantage instead of the comparative advantage. Companies want to search outside of their countries to get the lowest cost. However, this hurts the countries because jobs are lost. Protectionism eradicates this problem by emphasizing the importance of the local industry.