Therefore, it is common for there to be two different or even more heroic journey’s occurring in gothic novels. The reason for one heroic journey in a gothic is typically different that the reason for the other one. This is shown through the fact that Victor is searching for his creature because he is wreaking havoc and Victor is not entirely sure as to what his creation can do; the creature is searching for Victor because he is the reason as to why he was originally abandoned and is the source for his problems. After he wraps up his story the monster tells Victor, "You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being” (Shelley117). The creature wants to be able to spend the rest of his life with someone that will love him and someone that he can love back. He wants to be with someone that is capable if understanding his emotions and the things that he is going through because they are the same. Of course, Victor is reluctant to do this because he does not want two creatures wreaking havoc on the world and mass producing. But he ends up agreeing to make the creature a mate and sets out on the journey of creation. During the creation of his new creature, Victor works aimlessly …show more content…
The setting of Frankenstein is centered on the creation and that generates a gloomy mood. Shelley stated:
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.