Frankenstein and His Monster
...ctor’s dreadful reaction. The creature’s disappearance shows that rejection from his “creator” has hurt him deeply, and that he already is living a lonely, independent life. A couple years later, Victor and the creature meet up again in the mountains near the valley of Chamounix. In this time, Victor has been touched by his son’s death, and the wrongful accusations brought towards Justine. Victor knows that the creature was responsible for the death of his son, and is extremely angered by the creature’s presence, as he shows in a conversation with the monster. Victor states, “Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies, begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall.” (Shelley 128) Victor realizes that it is mostly the creature’s and his fault for the death of two innocent people, William and Justine, and takes his anger out on the monster. After this conversation, the monster tells in detail the life he has been living, a life filled with despair, loneliness, and depressing rejection. The creature asks Victor of one thing, that he creates him a mate of the same species. The monster describes his desperation and loneliness: “We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. This being you must create. (Shelley 190) After much consideration, Victor agrees to bring a female creature to life that closely resembles the characteristics that the monster possesses. Victor begins working on the female monster and comes close to finishing, when he realizes the pain and destruction he may cause for other innocent people. In a rage of emotion, Victor changes his mind drastically. His actions are shown here: “I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.” (Shelley 223) The creature becomes enraged with revenge, as seen within the quote, and lashes back at Victor with one last threat, “I shall be with you on your wedding night.” (Shelley 225) This statement and the actions of Victor prove that hostile ways can lead to revengeful acts and statements as well. The monster continues in his loneliness, because of Victor’s hostility towards the monster. Victor never considers trying to make the monster happy permanently, and this causes the monster to withdraw from society more and live an even lonelier life than before. Victor arrives back to his home, and becomes married to Elizabeth, his long-term love. However the creature stays true to his threat and strangles Elizabeth, as he did with William, Victo...