As you read the excerpt of “Frankenstein” you can see that Frankenstein is learning new things. The excerpt talks about how he is learning feelings and understanding how humans “work”. He is also learning how to see things in point of view. Everyone is taught to do things a current way, but it is all about perspective and your point of view. In the excerpt of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the creature is hidden away because others fear him. The creature is afraid to be out in the open because of the bad things the villagers might do to him. For example, the creature says, “I remember too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions”. The creature was explaining how he does not want to go out because of the treatment he receives from the “outside” world. Throughout the reading I get to understand that the creature learns new stuff day by day by sitting in his hovel watching the villagers live day by day. …show more content…
He assumes that the old man is blind. He notices that they show a lot of love towards one another by the way they act but things soon change. The young man does not seem to be entirely too happy, but the creature was curious on why. He did not seem to understand the reasoning for their unhappiness, but he was affected by it in some way. He states, “I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched”. He was confused on them being unhappy when they have everything they could ever