The Creature's Transformation In Frankenstein

The creature’s actions are often misinterpreted, which causes him to resent humans and so accelerates his transformation into becoming a monster. During his travels, the creature comes across a river, just in time to see a girl running “along” its “precipitous sides”. The girl loses her footing and falls “into the rapid stream”. Immediately, the creature hurries out of his “hiding place, and, with extreme labour from the force of the current”, rescues her. When a man spots the creature with the girl, he tears “the girl from” the creature’s “arms”. Then the man aims “a gun” at the creature’s “body” and fires, before fleeing with the girl. The creature sinks “to the ground”, having been shot (p. 115). The creature “had saved a human from destruction, …show more content…
The creature tells the child that he “did not intend to hurt him” and to “listen to” him (p. 117). The creature was never taught that seizing a child is unacceptable behaviour. The boy immediately mistakes the creature’s actions, calling the creature a “hideous monster”. It is only then that the boy mentions belonging to the Frankenstein family. The creature feels overwhelmed by hatred and acts towards the child as others had acted towards him; in violence. He holds the child’s “throat to silence him, and in a moment” the boy is dead at the creature’s “feet” (p. 117). After the creature relays his story to Frankenstein, he requests that Victor “create a female for” him. He wishes to “live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for” his “being” (p. 118). Immediately, Frankenstein refuses the request, thinking that the creature desires another to join him in his vicious behaviour. However, for the first time, the creature is given a chance to explain himself. He promises that if Frankenstein agrees, “neither” he “nor any other human being shall ever see” them “again” (p. 120). Frankenstein, although reluctant, sees reason in the creature’s request and agrees to fulfil