We have learned that monsters don't have a place in society. They can sometimes be shapes, thoughts, feelings. They are there just to cause havoc. Victors monster was no different. Shelley does not actually truly describe what the monster looks like. In her book she goes into some details but not a lot. I think as humans trying to understand the monster we have to give them a face. Give them a body and a look to try and "normalize" them. Even if sometimes the look is different and scary, giving them something to be, makes it easier to understand. This is why I believe that the look of the monster has changed. It changes with our society and our imaginations.
The name is another thing. Shelley does not give the monster a name. Victor Frankenstein is only the creator. In her book, Shelley sometimes calls the monster a creature, a demon, but never a true name. I think this is true with most monsters. They are all just monsters. Monsters do not fit into any category. They don't have anything that belongs to them. Yet for us to be able to "understand" them we feel the need to give them a name. Another thing to help them seem like something that we can some day hope to understand. Which is why I think that although the monster doesn't have a name - Frankenstein is often attached to it. If it were to remain nameless the monster would be just that much more of a terrifying phenomenon and as humans we seek to lower that wall and make things level at a place that we can understand.
After thinking about different all kinds of different monsters, it's interesting and I agree that most monsters do not have names. Rather they are called things based off of their appearance or how they act with others around them. I think that monsters aren't given names because then they wouldn't be as monstrous, people would feel more emotion towards them and would probably actually care about these creatures. I think that Frankenstein is attached to his monster because it is like his child. I feel like in any case, there should normally be a connection between a creation and the creator and the fact that Frankenstein doesn’t name the monster is a sign that he’s trying to have less emotion towards him and he wishes that it was not his creation.
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