creatures ugliness Flashcards
ugliness disrupts social categorization
creatures body is unable to be classified into a social category
creatures wish to gain social acceptance is impossible as body standards of humans differ too much from his physical form
sepetately, the creatures features are beautiful “his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing”
when he is observed as a unit, they highlight the ugliness of the creatures overall appearance even more
comparing himself to caroline the creature realizes he’s ugly and the difference between beauty and ugliness
he is “forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow” shows again he realizes his own existence id reduced to solitary dwelling
sublime is often defined as one of the strongest emotions which the mind is capable of feeling, producing a sort of delightful horror, a sort of tranquility tingled with terror
inability to classify the creature into a group as the sublimity isn’t reached because his ugliness is too blinding
believing that people are bound to make prejudices based on another’s appearance, the creature knows he’ll never be accepted
the ability to criticize social constructs made by humans shows the creatures intellectual level is the same or similar to that of humand
the creature turns into an example of how ugliness is treated in a society defined by beauty