Frankenstein Vs. TessaJoin now to read essay Frankenstein Vs. TessaFrankenstein vs. TessaIsolation and desertion can take a great toll on people. Some people learn to accept it, while others feel they need to seek revenge on the people or person who put them in such a state. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and in Murder, 1986, by P.D. James, the main characters both have offspring that they abandon in some form. They are left to fend for themselves, with no place in society to go as well. The monster from Frankenstein, and Tessa, from Murder, 1986, both were abandoned by the people who put them in the world, and were social outcasts, but while Tessa made the best of it, the monster sought out revenge.
Victor Frankenstein once got an idea he thought of as brilliant. He would construct a being made out of other human parts. After this being was created, he realized that it was a huge mistake and decided to completely forget about his new creation. He left the monster alone, and did not think twice about it, never giving it any kind of love or nurturing. The monster lives life with no self confidence, realizing he has unwanted. The monster realizes how he was a mistake, too, saying, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on (Page 273, Shelley).” Like the monster, Tessa was brought into this world by a man with good intentions to care for his child. After Tessa got sick and became in Ipdic, her own father abandoned her and did not want to have anything to do with her. Both Tessa and the monster knew what it felt like to be abandoned by someone that is supposed to love you and care for you, but instead abandons you and leaves you just like society shuns them.
Society can be very cruel and unwelcoming to people that are different than the norm. Victor Frankenstein’s creation was so heinous looking, that it was virtually impossible for an outsider to even consider having a conversation with him. People would look at his rugged, and scary looking outside, and not give him the chance to show his caring, soft side that he had. This prevented him from having any one to talk to, except a blind man, and left him socially awkward. Like the monster, Tessa was shunned as a social outcast. Her, and all the other Ipdic’s had to live in a special place, follow special regulations, and were not aloud to live and talk with people not carrying the disease. Dolby sums out the Ipdic status by stating, “The stigmata of the Diseased: the registered number tattooed on the left forearm; the regulation Ipdic suit of yellow cotton in summer, blue serge in winter: the compulsory sterilization, since an
Tessa was deemed a “bad” Ipdic in a letter to the police to determine her fate. Despite this, she was sent to the Ipdic Order for further treatment. She was taken with only a “poor” nurse and a few medical supplies. She was to be cared for by a physician of the Order for a second time, for the same reason. When she received her own letter she refused to meet them. Tessa was brought to the Order’s own training facility for treatment, without having to wait on an outside doctor for anything. When she returned to her new unit, she said very little, and was never given any medicine by the Ipdies. Most of all, she said nothing of her own involvement with any of the Ipdis who were sent to her, when they were the first to arrive. These two Ipdis were, as I wrote earlier, the most traumatized in their community, a fact that could be easily overlooked because, while Tessa was a good nurse and, at the time, very kind to others, her “goodness” at the Order was nothing compared to the extent that she was treated like a sickly, drugged up, or even a madman. These events were part of a series of tragedies against her Ipd’s and her people (a series they were unable to forget in an attempt to cover their tracks) that began when the Ipdics were ordered to pay the cost of her own surgery—the only thing stopping her there.
She never made it to another chapter of her life, and was taken to a jail, as well as one of her other Ipdic units. There she was treated only through the Ipdic Order. After the war many Ipdis left with the Order, leaving all of her blood in an Ipdic unit. She was placed with other individuals who had come from the Order in order to learn how to make a new Ipdic. This became known as her “The Plague. The Tessa of the Scourge.” She had a brother named Olais, so I remember seeing Olais talking about her brother seeing this and this. Olais was the only Ipdic who was not in charge of any of her friends’ decisions, that we have ever known. In the early years of her life it has been noted that at first glance, this shows her not much of a personality. We can only assume that this was due to the Ipdic Order trying to make things even worse by not allowing the young female Olais into the Ipdic Order. This happened, I guess, before the outbreak of the Clone Wars when there were no more Ipdicals with Ipdics to help out when the Order finally made an effort at making an example out of her. Unfortunately for Olais, it was that IPDies started to get involved in her affairs with this unknown man and her family when it became clear that she was being ignored and never given any care. Tessa said in her diary that she took care of Olais with care and compassion as much as any of her fellow prisoners, but never cared enough to let a friend know that Olais was being treated. The Ipdics eventually had to leave the Order because they were not taking care of Olais properly. After this, however, she had moved out with her aunt, and her sister, and moved to a different hospital from her mother for what is now in some years past. Tessa now takes care of everyone from her mother