Is the Ending Inevitable? Do the Creature and Victor Have to be Destroyed so that Order Can be Restored Amongst Men?
...reating further creatures, and in deed it is his error of judgement, which caused the creation of the creature in the first place. From this perspective, one would have to argue that Victor deserves to die. In the months before Victor’s death, he had seemed more exhilarated in those few months of vengeance than throughout the rest of the novel. When Victor gets close to catching the creature, even If he catches the mere glimpse of the creature he becomes extremely physically and emotionally active. Take the instance in Chapter 24 when he is reduced to tears, “warm tears filled my eyes, which I hastily wiped away.” Victor’s compassion for his cause becomes evident here, as he sheds the first tears of happiness in the whole of the book. His continued pursuit of the creature, perhaps help the reader forgive him for his past mistakes. And indeed the pursuits help Victor stop from feeling guilty over past events. As for the creature, the reader’s opinions of it change dramatically as the novel draws to a close. Ever since the events involving Safie and the peasant family, the reader will have felt at least some sympathy for the creature. However, the creature’s murder of Henry Clerval and Elizabeth Lavenza begin to alter the reader’s perception of the creature. Indeed the complete reversion of feelings towards the creature might well occur when the creature announces its satisfaction in the murders which it has committed, particularly the way in which it grins after murdering Elizabeth, “The shutters had been thrown back; and, with a sensation of horror not to be described, I saw at the open window a figure most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face if the monster; he seemed to jeer as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.” In my opinion, this is also the point at which the chase truly begins, the creature “seemed to jeer” at Victor, this jeering or taunting continues throughout the chase in the next chapter. Throughout the course of the chase, the creature has what he has always longed for, a relationship. A almost father-son relationship is exhibited by the two characters, the creature almost looks after Victor by providing him with food, or...