xHe is in St. Petersburg and he is on journey to the North Pole. He wants his life to have a purpose and wants to make other scientific discoveries as well. He is committed to self-discovery and adventure. He wishes he had a friend with the same sensibilities and he says he is self taught. Walton is going North, on his ship. His emotion has rule over his reason. One month has passed and the sailors are now trapped in fog and ice. The weak and near-death man says that he is seeking someone who left and asks where the ship is headed. The man doesn't say very much but Walton thinks he is very educated. He starts again the next day. Victor gets better over time. Victor tell Walton that his search will fail. Walton is very interested and wants to …show more content…
He learns of music for the first time, as well as words and language. He feels a mixture of pain and pleasure. The creature studies their daily routines. The creature thinks they have all the luxuries of life, but then realizes they are very poor. The creature clears the snow from their walk and leaves supplies of wood for the family. The creature learns the words for food and objects. Abstract nouns and some adjectives are difficult to understand because they usually refer to or modify a condition, not a person, place or thing. Agatha and Felix are brother and sister. He fears the family will be horrified by him. He sees his reflection and notices how ugly he is compared to the beautiful humans. Victor is sick and being nursed back to health by Henry Clerval. The creature wants to learn to speak. Spring fills him with joy and hope. Safie is from Turkey. Felix falls in love with her and teaches her French. The monster observes the reading lessons and learns faster than Safie. Felix teaches Safie how to read with Volney’s Ruins of Empires. The creature learns about the history of civilization and all the wars man has waged on one another. He seems to …show more content…
He fears the monster will kill him. They take a boat to spend the night after their wedding. It is night and it is dark. He thought that the creature would kill him on their wedding night, not Elizabeth. The monster kills Elizabeth. He laughs and points at Elizabeth’s body from outside the window. He returns because he is sad. Victors father dies of heart break and Victor becomes sick again. He is told by the magistrate that the law can do very little to capture the creature The end of the day. Because he knows his fate has been sealed and he can be in peace. It means the challenges and hardships he has had to overcome in his life, his life journey. He sees the creature on a ship to Russia and he follows it into the Arctic Circle. He asks him to destroy the creature. He warns Walton about the creatures elusiveness and persuasiveness. Because it will crush Walton’s happiness. He says he will turn the ship arounds when they get free from the ice. He thinks continuing the trip is too dangerous and because some of the crew has died. Victor wants to keep chasing the creature. Victor thinks his hatred of the monster is justified. Walton is sad because Victor didn't reach his
The monster learns to speak from eavesdropping the villagers’ conversation, and he masters his ability to read by reading books that he found in a satchel. He is eager to learn about the world around him. (115) From observing villagers, the monster realized his otherness.
The Creature 's mind still of a newborn begins to observe his human neighbors as through observations and interactions the family has demonstrates the positive and negative aspects of the Creature.
In reality, he is disgusted by the sight of his creation so he abandons it leaving it all alone in the world without any guidance and runs away to the next room. Victor himself suffered from being a social outcast and now he bestowed the same feeling onto the creature by abandoning him. By treating the creature as an outcast, “he will become wicked … divide him, a social being, from society, and you impose upon him the irresistible obligations—malevolence and selfishness” (Caldwell). Not only is Victor selfish for abandoning his creature but he is shallow as well. Instead of realizing that he achieved his goal of bringing life to an inanimate body he runs way because of how hideous it is.
When he sees his reflection, he sees the difference in appearance between himself and everyone else around him. He watches a family for a period of time, and tries to communicate with them. They, too, are scared away by his appearance. He becomes angry with humans and further isolates himself (Shelley 91-110). Even though the creature had committed murder, he didn’t know that he was doing wrong.
This attitude is clearly naive. Walton possesses the same eagerness that destroyed victor and the monster. Victor says to Walton,
He is aware of his otherness and knows that he is “shut out from intercourse” (84) with the people he holds so dear. It can be argued that this is the point where the creature’s humanity is the strongest throughout the course of story. He has a basic understanding of human societies, he speaks and reads their language, shows compassion and, most importantly, seeks their company and friendship. In his knowledge that social belonging is the missing component to his own happiness, he confronts the people he secretly observed only to, once again, be met with fear and anger (94-95). He comes to realise that he
Victor is almost finished with the companion and as he looks at it he states he begins “trembling with passion” and “tore to pieces the thing on which [he] was engaged (Shelley, 154).” The creature then seeks out Victor and says, “‘I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes? (Shelley, 155)’” Victor and the creature resemble a parent taking away an item that makes the child happy. The child (creature) then asks the parent (Victor) why the parent doesn’t wish their child to be happy because said item is the only thing that bring joy to the child.
He observed how they treated and interacted with one another. He learned about history, literature, and society and also taught himself how to speak, read, and write by watching them. The Creature finally gained power over his own life, with this knowledge he makes his own decisions and learns how people live in the real world. The power of knowledge has an effect on many of the characters. Victor wanted to create the Creature to learn more about science and giving life to something lifeless.
After seeing Victor dead on the ship he cried and said, “I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death”(p 198)? Obsession was also the monsters downfall, he became a ruthless killer for the sole purpose of
As being the creator, Victor shows dissatisfaction by rejecting and abandoning his own creation as he is “[being] unable to endure the aspect of the being [he has] created [and] rushed out of the room.” (Shelley 84) He is supposed to take responsibility of creating the “monster” by providing support and care; in fact, he runs away from reality. In opposite, Walton shows his kindness and fatherly by nursing Victor who is found in a sledge. Walton and his crew members take care of Victor with “[wrapping] him up in blankets and [placing] him near the chimney of the kitchen-stove” to keep him in warmth.
He starts his own plan to for revenge against the creature, but this makes him just as beastly as the monster. Victor makes it his life goal, to make the monster pay in any way he can. He wants him to feel lonely and isolated forever. The beast takes a lot out on Victor and makes him feel exactly the way he feels
This time spent here helped to begin to develop the creature’s mind, proving he was in fact rather intelligent. The monster knew that he was different from these people, often describing them all as beautiful. He knew they would not accept him, and yet his search for belonging and family continue to surge the novel forward. While the creature is lonely and hurting, his actions slowly become malicious.
Each man has an attachment with his sister and a desire to conquer the unknown. Once Walton realizes that Victor’s ambitions had ruined his life, he decides to choose safety over discovery and turn his ship around.
The theme of light and darkness greatly affected how the readers felt about the creature, and how they see him at this point as another individual or a child trying to find his purpose in the world and at the same time conquering various types of
He learned to read, understand language, he experienced history lesson's of Europe, and how to speak " I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations". (Shelley 91) The creature's ambition to learn was for a good purpose, however his increased knowledge only showed him the true outcast that he was. Each of the main characters pursued education for different reasons, Walton learned for sea-faring, Victor learned for science, and the creature learned for