In chapter 4 it is the creation of the monster. When the monster is created Victor is horrified and rejects the monster. The readers here feel sad from the monster because he was rejected by his own creator because if the way he looks but at the end of the day he has feelings too. I think that at this point when the monster disappears he will be feeling very sad and left out because he’s not wanted by anyone. Also the fact that he can’t communicate in any way apart from grunting is also a drawback as when anyone sees him they will just run away because of the way that he looks.
In Chapter 6 when we find out about the death of William and Victor suspects that it’s his own creation who killed him I think that at this point Mary Shelley is trying to get the point across that the monster is a bad creature and that all it wants to do is kill living things but the only reason that the monster killed William was because it thought that it was going to be attacked or because it was attacked. The monster also would’ve attacked William because it seeked revenge after everyone had rejected it in the past and no one realised that the monster had feelings too.
In Volume 2, Chapter 3, we learn a lot more about the monster and that it isn’t just evil and dangerous but a lonely, miserable creature. The monster talks of how it felt as it was created and what it went through when it was rejected by it’s own creator. The monster was just like a child; he knows nothing of the world that he’s in and is immediately rejected by his own father. Those he encounter meet him with horror. This is going to cause severe psychological harm to the poor monster. Eventually he finds shelter in a hovel near De Lacey’s cottage. He watches them and soon learns how to speak. When he looks in the pool and sees his own reflection he reacts very badly because he ad never seen what he looked like before and he had just realised why everyone feared him. He didn’t like the way he looked. When the Monster rescues the little girl it gives him a totally different view on humans because he then sees the girls dad happy to have her daughter and that the only reason they were scared of him was because of the way that he looked. I think that the murder of William at this point can be justified because he was treated badly by humans and rejected so the monster felt he had to get revenge.
I think that his demand for a female companion is reasonable because he feels rejected by everyone else but thought that if he has a female friend of the same creation as him then he wouldn’t feel left out and like the whole world was against him. The obvious pitfalls of the idea are that Frankenstein will have to dig up more body parts from the morgues and graves. I think that if a female companion was created then it would stop the monster from being dangerous and evil and make him harmless and happy because all he ever wanted was to be loved by someone and not rejected by everyone. When the Monster follows Victor to London in Chapter 3 and finds that his female companion has been destroyed we see that the monster is clearly unhappy and distraught because that would have been the only person that would have loved him and not rejected him like everyone else. Also the creation would not be a human being so the companion could feel exactly like the monster was. When the monster said that he promises to be at the wedding this was again another revengeful sentence and it gives the reader a sense of eeriness that something bad is going to happen a the wedding because if this big , bad and scary monster is going to turn up then something bad has got to happen.
In chapter 4 when Clerval is found dead and it is obviously the monster our sympathies lie with Clerval because he hadn’t done anything and the monster just found someone to take his anger out on.
In chapter 6 when we discover that Elizabeth had been murdered we obviously felt angry because it obviously had been the monster but again we do feel a sense of sympathy for the monster because Victor Frankenstein killed and destroyed the monsters loved one and companion so this s what the monster felt he had to do in order to get revenge.
In chapter 7 when victor dies and the monster Is found weeping a the end of his bed I don’t find this surprising because no matter whats happened or no matter what the monster has been through it will always feel something for its creator; the person who brought it into the world because without the creator the monster would not be alive. I think that it is a suitable ending to the story because now that his creator has gone there is no way that anyone will love him because his creator cant create another monster for him as well.
