This means the creature wants to know more about him. Also, he feels lonely; this is a common human emotion, because we can then identify with him; therefore, it was effective to include it.
‘I was wretched, helpless and alone’
This line was effective because it ties in the loneliness of the creature to the fact that he feels unwanted. The lack of confidence is enforced by the quote:
‘Personal deformities’
From the above quotes, it is clear that Frankenstein’s creature is unhappy. The way Mary Shelley uses emotion that are often felt in humans let us empathise with him. We can identify how he is feeling because we know what these emotions feel like.
Frankenstein’s creature tries to live like a human. Admirably, he tries to learn by example when he begins to watch some cottagers in the woods. He learns how to read, and reads books such as ‘Sorrows of Werther’ he started to understand people’s sufferings, this affects the audience because can associate with the creature. He watched the creature; in secrecy, teach their daughter French; which he picked up. In this chapter, the creature compares himself to Adam, as in Adam and Eve:
‘Like Adam…apparently united by no link to other being in existence’
The creature feels alone, no friends, no family to care for him. The difference is, Adams creator is God, and he loved Adam; and the creature’s creator or ‘God’ is Victor Frankenstein and he didn’t love his creation. Again, the audience has to feel sorry for the creature, because he is not loved, and the creature knows that.
Later in this chapter, the creature plucks up the courage to make human contact. Mr. De Lacy, a blind man, the creature knocked on his door. As they talked, they got on well, but the creature would not approach Mr. De Lacy. The tension in this part of the chapter happens because you think that the creature has made friends with this man. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen. Felix, (Mr. De Lacy’s son) arrives with the rest of his family; the creature was attacked as he clung to Mr. De Lacy’s knees. The creature felt distraught, which was rightfully portrayed to the audience, so they could imagine the extreme pain, both emotionally and physically.
‘My heart sank within me’
The creature knows that he had lost a friend, his only chance of friendship. However, the creature does not fight back; the creature knows he was stronger than Felix.
‘I could have torn him limb from limb’
This quote shows that the creature has feelings, and can rise above the violence. And also, it shows he knows the concept of family; because Felix is a father.
In conclusion to chapter seven of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, she has used a number of effects to create tension and sympathy for the creature. Shelley uses effective description to show how the creature feels. Shelley then makes us admire the creature by showing his progress, from knowing almost nothing, to being able to read, and speak a foreign language. To make us sympathise with the creature, the feelings and emotions are expressed so that the audience can understand how the creature feels.
Scientific advances around the time of Frankenstein make it an effective story, being responsible with science is an important message. Would it really be right to create a new life, to play God?