The creations affectionate trait developed when he became more desperate. The creation asks Victor for a friend because he is lonely and wants a friend to love and care for. “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but as one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create” (133). He wants someone who is like him to relate to and to be friends with. The creation is feeling alone and he wants love. Later in the novel, the creation meets Robert Walton and explains to him about his regrets about murdering these people. “But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. …show more content…
The creation describes how he wanted love and friendship as his ultimate goal and not murdering many. The trait that is more pronounced is the creations murderous habits. This characteristic is stronger because the creation’s violence overshadows his lovingness. At the core of the creation, he is murderous and evil. Mary Shelley makes this character complex by using duality from opposing qualities that play off of eachother. The creation kills to make other people feel the same pain and loneliness that he is feeling. Before he kills the boy he sees a young girl playing by the water. The girl falls into the water and the creation rushes to help her. “I rushed from my hiding place and with extreme labour, fro the force of the current, saved her and dragged her to shore. She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person whom she had playfully fled. On seeing me, he darted towards me, and tearing the girl from my