Victor Frankenstein believes that his creature is evil from its ugly looks and ugly features. He is very disappointed as he has used beautiful body parts and the finished product is ugly. At this point we feel sympathy for the creature from Victor Frankenstein’s remarks and opinions. Later Victor Frankenstein runs away from his troubles and abandons the creature and leaves it to fend for itself, like a newborn baby. This also makes the reader feel sympathy for the creature especially when it is uneducated and does not know how to do things.
Uneducated, Victor Frankenstein’s creation is forced to fend for itself, and find food, even he doesn’t know how to or what food is.
“I again went out in search of berries.”
Victor Frankenstein’s creature also senses cold and is scared when it goes dark because no one has told him what coldness and dark are. Again this makes the reader feel sympathy for the creature.
The creature feels, “It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as if it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.”
Victor Frankenstein’s creature senses beauty and enjoys it. He particularly likes birds and calls them “little winged animals”. He especially enjoys their singing.
“I was delighted when I when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceed from the throats of the little winged animals.”
Again this makes the reader feel sorry the creature as he appreciates the beauty of nature. The reader feels more sympathy when the creature tries to mimic the sound the bird makes.
“Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant song of the birds”.
The creature is frightened when he attempts to mimic the bird and is unsuccessful.
“I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into a silence again.”
In the next part of the story, Victor Frankenstein’s creature discovers a villager and the creature tries to associate himself with other human beings, only to discover that the other people’s response is that they think he is evil and nasty. The people run away shrieking and crying, while other villagers physically attack the creature. The creature doesn’t retaliate because of his good nature. This makes the reader feel sympathy for the creature because of the other people’s reactions to the creature presence.
“I had hardly placed my foot with the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.”
Even though he hasn’t done anything wrong the villagers attack him beating him with sticks and various other items, as if he has committed a crime. However he treated this way from his ugly looks and features, if he treated this way today the villagers would get done for discrimination. This is when the creature first feels hate against humans and vows war against them, he describes the humans as ‘barbaric’.
“The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of weapons”.
Victor Frankenstein’s creature flees from the village upset and hurt until he reaches a small cottage on the outskirts of the village. The creature seeks shelter in an abandoned dog kennel. From this kennel the creature is able to observe the family that occupy the cottage. At night the creature steals food from the family. He carefully watches the family and discovers that the family are unhappy but the creature can’t understand the family is unhappy. Later Victor Frankenstein’s creature realizes that the family are unhappy because they are poor, so the creatures ceases from stealing from the family. The creature shows signs of kindness by helping the family by doing family chores, like searching for firewood. By watching the family the creature eventually learns how to speak and is very interested in the family and the family’s way of life.
One day the creature plucks up enough courage to approach the family, confident that the family will accept him despite his horrid looks. The creatures speak to an elderly member of the family, the elderly man is blind and cannot see the creature’s ugly looks. It is all going well until the conversation between Victor Frankenstein’s creature and the elderly man is broken up when the other members return to the cottage. Most of the family retreat and run away, while the more senior members of the family physically attack him.
“He dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.”
The Victor Frankenstein’s creature explains how he could have easily torn him limb from limb but he didn’t because of his good nature.
The creature is forced to run away however when he returns to the house he finds that the house has been deserted and sets fire to it in an angry rage. In this part of the story the reader will probably feel the most sympathy for the creature because the only family that seemed to accept him has turned their backs on him.
The creature carries on his travels until he reaches a river only to see a young women having fun and running about until she falls into the river. The creature rescues her and pulls her out of the river. She is unconscious when a man approaches and picks up the young beautiful women and runs off. Victor Frankenstein’s creature tries to follow only to be shot with a gun; without any thanks of rescuing the girl. After that event the creature thinks,
“From that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.”
The creature carries on his travels and is approached by a young boy, whom he regards as beautiful. The boy is also frightened of the creature’s unsightly appearance. The creature tries to compromise with the child by saying that he will not hurt him. The child is unwilling to compromise and threatens the creature with a doctor Frankenstein. The name makes the creature very angry and in a rage kills the child. At this part of the story, the reader will begin to feel sympathy for the creature’s creator Victor Frankenstein, however the reader understands why the creature reacts in this aggressive fashion. This is the first in a series of murders. The creature is responsible for the deaths of the Frankenstein’s’ family servant Justine, his friend Clerval and on her wedding night Victor Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth. At the novel Victor Frankenstein pursues the creature to the North Pole in order to destroy the creature, but unfortunately he falls ill and dies. The creature understanding his own evil nature and goes off into the wilderness to burn himself to death.
In an overall conclusion the reader feels more sympathy for the creature, as the creature is lonely for entire story. When the creature tries to associate with other human beings, the creature is treated badly and forced to become an outcast. However the reader feels sympathy for the Victor Frankenstein when the creature murders his loved ones. The reader understands why the creature reacts in such an aggressive fashion because that is how was treated.