While Victor curses the monster as a demon, the monster responds to Victor's coarseness with surprising eloquence and sensitivity, proving himself an educated, emotional, exquisitely human being.
How does the creature respond to Victor's reaction?
He feels rage and horror and he says "devil, do you dare approach me?" How does the creature respond to Victor? He is polite and calm, but asks him why did Victor give him life.
The creature was filled with hatred and vowed revenge for being rejected. That evening, he burned down the empty cottage and its surrounding vegetation. He then decided to search for Victor in Geneva. He hated Victor but reasoned that his creator should at least help him out of pity.
Mary Shelley's original novel never gives the monster a name, although when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the monster does say "I ought to be thy Adam" (in reference to the first man created in the Bible).
The creature happens upon William, Victor's younger brother, and he strangles him in an act of vengeance. With blood on his hands, the creature sets out to ruin Victor's life further. He frames the Frankensteins' favorite maid, Justine, for William's murder.
At the end of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein dies wishing that he could destroy the Monster he created. The Monster visits Frankenstein's body. He tells Walton that he regrets the murders he has committed and that he intends to commit suicide.
The creature seems to show no remorse for his actions and offers no apology to Victor through most of the book. When Captain Walton happens upon the creature mourning the death of Victor, the creature unburden himself to Walton, revealing his remorse and begging pardon from Victor's corpse.
The Monster hates Frankenstein for abandoning him after his creation: “He had abandoned me: and, in the bitterness of my heart, I cursed him.” The Monster is also angry with Frankenstein for making the Monster the only one of his kind: “I was dependent on none and related to none.” The Monster also feels hatred and ...
Once he learns that Victor is dead, the creature feels that he no longer has a purpose. He both hates and pities Frankenstein and knows that ultimately he cannot live without his creator, no matter how much the two of them hated each other.
While Victor initially created the creature to resolve the neglect he received as a child, his over-ambitiousness ultimately prevents him from empathizing with his creation, so he subsequently abandons it.
In the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein's Monster does not have a specific love interest, although he does wish to love and be loved by someone. However, all humans seem to fear and hate him, so he asks Victor Frankenstein to create a companion, or wife, for him who is also a Monster.
In these ways, Victor was very similar to the characters of these stories. Victor was constantly sickened with guilt after completing his work, and after each terrible act the monster committed. He did realize that his actions were wrong, yet he did nothing in attempt to right them.
The Monster, by nature, is liminal, he is made up of human parts, but his conception is man-made and artificial, and as such he is never accepted by society. The character's own understanding of this grows as he is repeatedly rejected and victimised even by those he seeks to help, such as the DeLaceys.
Frankenstein neglects the creature because of its hideous demeanor, and his actions are the cause of his ultimate downfall. Although hideous, the monster still has feelings and emotions similar to regular people.
Seeking revenge on his creator, he kills Victor's younger brother. After Victor destroys his work on the female monster meant to ease the monster's solitude, the monster murders Victor's best friend and then his new wife.
I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
However, Victor creates a monster and ultimately regrets making him, and he wishes that he had not tried to rise above his station. He allows his hubris, or excessive pride, to get in the way of his life. Victor's monster feels rejected by his creator, so he seeks knowledge of his origins.
(Shelley 35) Victor's desire for the creature to have beautiful features fails, resulting in the creature's ugly “watery eyes” and “straight black lips” (35). Additionally, though “his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing,” something that could be understood to be beautiful becomes something ugly.
The monster doesn't believe he is a person, and he wonders what he is and where he belongs. He hates Victor for his abandonment, but he hates himself more.
One of the deepest horrors of this novel is his implicit goal of creating a society for men only: Victor's creature is male; he refuses to create a female; there is no reason why the race of immortal beings he hopes to propagate should not be exclusively male.
Fate: The monster's and Victor's fates are inextricably linked. Victor believes it is his fate to live the rest of his life pursuing the monster, and as the one who brought the monster into the world, is set on destroying him. After Victor's death, the monster feels he must die as well.
Why does Victor fall ill after creating the monster?
Victor Frankenstein is consumed by guilt almost constantly as the book progresses. Whenever something causes him to become exceptionally guilty, he becomes ill. The illness allows him to temporarily escape from any responsibility he has and also to talk about his guilt, soothing his conscience.
Victor Frankenstein is more evil than the creature. He cannot own up and take responsibility for the creature he has just created as a result of his hubris and ambition. The monster meanwhile, is left to fend for itself in the world without a maternal figure.
After realizing that he is horribly different from human beings, the monster cries, “Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.”
In Frankenstein, the deaths of his loved ones leaves Victor with an unbearable feeling of guilt, for it is because of his creation of the monster that leads to their murders.
