The reader feels pity and sorrow for this inhuman creature. The reader is privy to his thoughts, cares, and concerns. Seeing the monster as a pitiable character, he deserves the reader's empathy. Shelley strikes this balance between Victor and the monster that both are to be pitied.
The monster wishes to know "his family" better, so he plans to somehow make his presence known to them. The conversations between the monster and the father go well until the walking party returns. Felix beats the monster, who offers no resistance, and the creature leaves the cottage to return to his hovel. Leghorn a seaport in Tuscany, western Italy on the Ligurian Sea. Lyons city in east central France, at the juncture of the Rhine and Sacne rivers.
Jura state of Switzerland; or a mountain range along the border of Switzerland and France. Previous Chapter Next Chapter He gives several different accounts of where his ambition comes from, reflecting his ambivalent attitude toward it.
She dies shortly before he begins to study science. He feels humans have treated him unfairly because of his appearance. The Monster only seeks revenge against Frankenstein, but sometimes he seems to see Frankenstein as the representative of all mankind. The Monster learns to speak by spying on the DeLacey family. Through a chink in the wall, the Monster can see and hear everything that happens inside the cottage.
He learns to speak by listening to the DeLaceys. These books point to major themes of the novel. The Sorrows of Werter is a novel about the alienation of a young man, which underlines the alienation of both the Monster and Frankenstein. Paradise Lost , by the English poet John Milton, is the most significant of the three books. The Monster frequently compares himself to both Satan and Adam. Frankenstein decides that he has a moral duty to destroy the female companion he is making for the Monster.
Frankenstein is also concerned that the female companion might reject the Monster, making the Monster even more miserable and angry. Finally, Frankenstein worries that the Monster and his female companion might have children, and eventually give rise to a new species which might destroy mankind. He concludes that it would be selfish for him to create a companion for the Monster in order to save his own life.
Milton's Paradise Lost: In his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, inputting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitter and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost 's apparent ambivalence has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of authority.
Plutarch's Lives: a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. Remember me. Forgot your password? New User?
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