In a search for food and shelter, the monster encounters young William Frankenstein and kills him. He claims, "I too can create desolation, my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him. He puts the locket of William's mother into Justine's pocket. Previous Chapter Next Chapter Spurning both suitors, she commits suicide by setting herself on fire with a Kerosene lamp.
Victor and Elizabeth marry, but Victor finds his new wife dead at the hands of the Monster. He vows to hunt the creature down. It could also be a foreboding symbol for those venturing into the wild, a disruption of the pastoral peace, as the wrath of God can fell even these timber giants.
He became fascinated with the power of electricity when he saw a tree split by a lightening bolt. The death of his mother prompted Victor to search even more vigorously for the secret of life. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows. His suffering was intense and thus his feelings of passionate bitterness and desire to seek revenge through violence grew.
The creature had been treated with violence by Felix, and had read of violence in novels he acquired, and so knew of it more than just instinctively. When the creature stumbles upon a young girl who is about to drown, he overcomes feelings of hatred for the race of humans and tries to save her, and succeeds.
This action strongly suggests that the creature is not a cold blooded murderer at all, and in fact a naturally good soul. It was really easy to contact her and respond very fast as well. Despite all the wrongs human kind had done against him, he still felt the need to save their kind because from them he saw the opportunity to derive so much emotional pleasure.
This left the creature the lowest it had ever felt. I had saved a human being from destruction and, as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. He came upon, on his travels, a young and very handsome boy.
He hopes that the boy is unprejudiced and plans to steal him and educate him as a companion and a friend. However, the boy is prejudiced against the deformed creature, and is also found to be a relation of Dr Frankenstein. You belong then to my enemy- to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.
He wanted to subject his creator to similar emotions that he had been subjected to, for example, despair, pain and desperation. The creature realises that he has power over his creator, power to give him misery, just as his creator has given him misery. The only idea the creature has on how to rouse these emotions from within Frankenstein is by killing his loved ones. This is the primary reason why he kills William. The creature did not kill because of rooted evil qualities in which he was born into, but instead he killed as a reaction to the severe rejection he endured and as a result of being on the receiving end of cumulative acts of prejudiced hatred.
In fact, there is more evidence to suggest, as discussed throughout the essay, that the creature tried repeatedly to make friends with the humans despite being repeatedly rejected. For example, even after he is shunned by the society of the cottage, he tries to help the little girl.
In conclusion, the creature was not born a monster, but from the nature of humanity, a monster was born. The monster killed William because society had made him a monster, and the only way he felt he could gain revenge was from making Dr Frankenstein feel as lonely as him, hence, by killing his close family. Get Full Access Now or Learn more. Want to read the rest?
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