Victor allows the monster to escape; he does not try to contain him. He unleashed a creature with the potential to do horrible things. Victor doesn’t even realize this; he is just worried about confronting the monster. By avoiding the monster Victor is passing the burden of managing the monster onto the world. He knows that he does not want to confront him but, he does not consider the fact that the world does not want to have to confront him either.
The monster leaves Victor; he goes into the woods and begins to learn how to care of himself. The thing about monster is that he does not know how to take care of himself. He does not know how to gather food, or how to make shelter. At this point the monster doesn’t think how much he hates his creator. At the moment he is trying to find out how to survive.
The monster begins to watch the cottagers, he begins to want some kind of acceptance, and he wants to have family or friends. He is amazed by the kindness of the people. He is comparing it to how he has been treated. Whenever he encounters people they run away screaming or worse they attack him. He is looking for someone that he could befriend. He is yearning for a companion, but he is scared to feel the agony from the reaction of the people he confronts.
After the monster was rejected by the cottagers he was very upset, but he was still willing to try to gain a friend. He tried again by saving a girl from drowning in a river, but then he got shot and was rejected again by humankind. He encounters William and again tries to be nice, but when William screams that his father will punish the monster and that his father is M. Frankenstein he snaps. He kills William out of his anger towards Victor Frankenstein.
Victor continues to be careless and keeps the monster a secret. Victor learns of William’s murder and then of Justine’s charges, but he still does not tell anyone about the monster. He just tries to convince others that she is innocent. After saying this he does not continue to explain who the murderer is, he just tells them that he knows she is innocent. By doing this he is a not allowing people to be prepared for the monster. He is letting the monster run free in fear that he will be punished for creating the monster.
When the monster asks Victor for a companion, he is trying to find a way to fit in, in the world without causing problems for others. He tells Victor “you must create a female for me”. When he gets a companion he says he will leave people alone and live in uninhabited area in South America. At this point the monster has given up trying to fit into society and is now determined to lead a happy life.
Victor in his mind is trying to free society of his monster and to help the monster lead a happy life. At this point he has not quite shifted all the way to being good. He still hasn’t realized that creating another monster probably won’t solve the situation. Creating another monster in fact has the potential to add to the problem greatly.
Victor decides to destroy the she-monster and save humankind from any further damage. This shifts the monsters anger from anyone who upsets the monster to all of his focus onto Victor. This sets the monster off and he changes from his attempts of leaving everyone in peace to specifically trying to bring pain and agony to Victor. Also from this point on Victor stays on the good side of society and tries to stop the monster from hurting anyone else. This is the main point at which the two characters switch positions.
When Victor destroys the she-monster, he vows to be with Victor on his wedding night. He decides to spend the rest of his life trying to make Victor’s life miserable. This is the beginning of the monsters rampage. He goes on to kill Henry and Elizabeth. Victor tries to protect everybody, but he couldn’t succeed. Victor continues to be good and he even tells someone about the monster, but it is all too late. The monster remains evil and continues to put Victor through as much torture as possible.
Overall I think the monster wasn’t evil. It was that his upbringing wasn’t good which led him onto violence. If victor contained him the monster would of done better in society. Victor should of told somebody but he was scared that the society will hunt him down. Victor shouldn’t have created the monster because it wouldn’t have led to his family being murdered.
The monster was desperate for human companionship in that he will do anything to get it but he does understand is actions and he starts to understand about emotions through studying the old man and his family but again he is just desperate and will do anything including killing.
