tor, detest and spurn me, the creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You propose to kill me"(Chapter.10, page.95). This shows that the creator wants his own Creation to be killed, because he thinks he has disowned God and also because of his grotesque features. This shows sympathy for the Creation. This is like a son finding out that he was an accident and his father wants him dead. The Creation takes this in his stride; in my eyes he was expecting this. He replies to victor by saying; "Remember that I am thou creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather a fallen angel."(Chapter.10Page.96.) this is using metaphoric language to persuade Victor to listen to his argument. The Creation is referring to the story of Adam and God. This is eventually going to persuade Victor to make a female Creation.
"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark, which you so wantonly bestowed? My feelings were those of rage and revenge, I could with pleasure destroy the cottage and its inhabitants.
This is an important quotation because it shows him getting violently beaten after a brief contact with the first person he meets who doesn't hit him or abuse him, this is because the man he meets is blind and therefore is not scared of how ugly the monster and does not shun him. This is a significant scene because he has made first real compassionate contact with a human being, and is the first sign of having friendship. The monster had his first touch of kindness shown towards him and it was shattered because of the old blind mans son Felix enters and attacks the monster very viciously. And this will create sympathy because it is the first human encounter he has, and the first chance of friendship. This is all ruined because Delacey's son, Felix comes and viciously attacks the creature. This will create great sympathy for the monster and hate for Frankenstein because we know that it is Frankenstein who started and made all this misery for the creature
"Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed."
"Be gone, vile insect …Wretched devil!" "…I will trample you to dust!"
These quotations from Frankenstein show he is cursing the creature because it is ugly; he is also threatening to kill the creature with his violent threats. This is very shocking because his is threatening to commit infanticide. This is because he believes the monster is evil and judges it from the physical appearance, because he is so shallow. But inside the creature is actually quite kind hearted and very clever. This increases our dislike towards Frankenstein. Most of our dislike towards Frankenstein is created by the words spoken from the creature because the monsters words are so sad and create sympathy for him. Because of the wretchedness created by Frankenstein's evil. The creature creates and deserves the most sympathy because he above all is treated badly and is an outsider. The creature is an example of inverted narcissism, the flawed facsimile of Frankenstein's vanity. These are a few quotations, which will give sympathy to the creature:
The monster feels jealous and saddened because he has no family or friends- he hasn't even a name and dearly wants to be a part of their family. When Safie and Felix get married, the monster is aware of a different relationship between them than Felix and Agatha, he realises that he could never have that kind of a relationship, especially with Safie who he loves. He can feel the family's pain and so he tries to help them by chopping up wood which made them happy.
We feel sympathy for the monster in volume 2 chapter 7, as the monster finally thinks that the De Lacy family might accept him, if he becomes friends with the blind man. "My heart beat quickly; this was the hour and moment of trial, which would decide my hopes, or realise my fears." The monster's courage and hopes make us feel sympathy for him, as he has come to love the family as his own. But he is rejected, because they thought that he was trying to hurt the blind man, we also feel for him as he puts his trust in the blind man "now is the time! Save me and protect me!" and again he is alone in the world. A vengeful spirit of wrath is released in the creature and he decides to seek-out Victor, as he is the only human who owes him anything.
On his journey to find Victor he comes across a small girl who was drowning in the river "I rushed from my hiding place, and, with extreme labour from the force of the current, saved her," and the monster felt kindness and gentleness, and is shot for his reward "I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone". We feel sympathy for the creature as he again has been rejected by society and claimed as a monster.
Another example of the monster being rejected is when he goes and stays in the De Lacey's barn, the De Lacey's are a poor farming family which were having a rough time with there crops and harvesting them because of the weather but the 'monster' overheard there convocations and problems and being the kind, giving person he is he helps them by picking there crops and helping them get by (this is where you see a very altruistic side to the monster), he does all of this without them finding out who he is. But when the taxman comes to threaten and try to harm the eldest of the family who is blind the monster steps in and stops him. The blind man is the only people ever to talk to the monster and understand he’s problems, but when the family return and find him in there house they chase him away although he has done nothing wrong. This provides the monster with more sympathy because he was just starting to be accepted for the first time in his life and it was all taken away from him because of his appearance.
This period of her life was dramatically diverse to the one that followed which brought back the gloom of the death of her mother. When Mary was seventeen she gave birth to her first child but was devastated when only twelve days later her baby tragically died. It was said that she then had a dream where her baby came back to life, which, in Frankenstein, is symbolized by the rebirth of the monster. Her familiarity of death only deepened when she experienced the suicides of both her half sister and the ex-wife of Percy.
Shelley uses another literary technique, of were she shows us an example of what the monster has missed out on his life by showing us the nurture and caring from another family. The children shows us the importance of child0hood because the children that the monster watches most closely gives him an idea of what he has missed out on, but Victor has had all this and more, this is also the point of were he is questioning himself saying "Who am I". This is because he is seeing this family helping and being together may be is what is making him wonder why he was ever created in the first place. From these views is why I think the monster is the victim of this story and when Victor created him, he of all people should have known that this monster would be in need of great nurture and care
