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Victor travels to a small island to begin his research in order to create a female for the creature. Eventually, Victor fears that the creature will reproduce with his new mate infesting the world. Therefore , he destroys the new creature before he finishes stating that “Even if they were to leave Europe, and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth” trying to justify his actions. Even though, the creature promised that he will stop his crimes(Curran). Victor’s actions just makes the creature more miserable and resentful. Therefore, the creature seeks for revenge against his creator. The creature murders Victor’s wife just like Victor killed his mate. In consequence of this, Victor starts to pursuing him in order to kill him. However, the creature easily escapes from him. Nonetheless, the creature leaves clues and food so that Victor could keep up tracking him because he …show more content…

The creature explains why his actions towards his creator, “I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself”(Shelley, 263). However, the creature is sad about the event contrary to what someone would expect. He demonstrates once again that deep inside he didn’t wanted anything of this to happen because he was just looking for his own happiness. The creature having accomplish his goal, " But soon, he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, 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.”(Shelley,270

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The creature wants to take revenge on Victor for abandoning him and causes Victor grief by killing the people he cares about. When the creature kills, Victor feels responsible and guilty of the murders. He continually breaks down with each death by “his” hands, which makes him go mad. The task of creating a monster turned Victor into a monster

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After surviving in the woods alone, the monster finds solace in the daily lives of a family residing in a small cottage. His days watching the family from afar and replenishing their firewood provide the creature with comfort and momentary bliss, much like Adam’s Garden of Eden. But he begins to realize that the circumstance of his existence differs greatly from Adam’s, as he had not “come forth by the hands of God” who is good, but rather by a flawed man who is more like Satan than a loving God (92). The monster’s anguish over his own existence and the betrayal of his creator along with the rejection from man, lead him to him committing a series of murders out of rage and frustration. Like Adam, the monster’s sins cast him from a life of innocence and bliss to hardship in misery, increasing his hatred for his maker.

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The only reason Victor is still alive is because the monster wants to prolong his suffering. The creature lives life alone and miserably by killing Victor’s loved ones he is feeling the same as the monster. Victor needs to be alive for the monster to execute his plan and leaves only Victor’s loved ones as options. Victor becomes focused that the monster is coming after him instead of his family. This shows Victor’s self-centerness and lack of awareness of his surroundings.

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The creature was abandoned but later found a home in a cottager’s den, where he learned how to read, write, and speak. He was then able to read the journal he took from Victor’s lab and dedicated himself to looking for his creator. As the story progresses, the creature makes Victor as miserable as him, leading them to nature, where they feel

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But there is a conflict and this is that there is no one of his kind in the world; and because of this he becomes very sad. The creature confronts Victor and asks him to make another creature similar to him but female, and Victor begins to make another creature but stops in the middle of his project. The creature finds this out and begins to terrorize Victor, the creature gets Victor's attention by killing a child and then killing Victor's best friend. When the creature killed Victor's best friend Victor had known what had to be done. The last thing that made the creature have full control over Victor was that he killed his newly wed wife.

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However, Victors reckless and unthoughtful actions pushes the monster into a state of rage and hatred that overrides his ability to stop from exacting revenge on Victor. Victor initially creates the monster thinking that it will be an amazing creature, built from the best human body parts Victor could procure. After he views the outcome of his work he is repulsed by it and abandons it, hoping that it would cease to exist. Not only did the monster survive, but it learned to speak, write, and read. After reading the book Paradise Lost, the monster thinks of its own situation and states the following:

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The creature getting undeservingly shot shows the readers how society causes the creature to become vengeful and creates a victim of neglect. Angrily, the creature describes being shot and says, “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction” (Shelley 121). Then, he recalls how “the miserable pain of a wound” (Shelley 121) causes “the feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before [gives] place to vengeance to all mankind” (Shelley 121).

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The monster learns of Victor’s death and after he is seen crying over his creator’s lifeless body, he realizes that he now has absolutely nothing to live for, he had no friends, family, or interaction, his only hope was Victor and now that has been ripped from him. Ordinarily, I felt a lot of pity for the creature at this point in the

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The creature becomes defensive. "Life...is dear to me, and I will defend it" (Shelley 96), this is ironic because not only does the creature kill others showing his selfishness, which he is mirroring Victor 's earlier selfish intentions for creating the creature, but earlier he was suicidal. Now the creature has to ask permission for a better life from a person that doesn 't even seem to value it. The creature also reminds

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”(Millhauser). This violent rejection is a repetition of Victor’s lack of acceptance for the monster and attention to his family. Victor knows that the monster will never be able to live within society and that his ability to create life is the only hope the monster has of achieving companionship. Victor's own aversion to companionship surfaces as he, “ fails to give him the human companionship, the Eve, the female creature, that he needs to achieve some sort of a normal life.” (Mellor).

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