Throughout the novel, there are many instances where the creature is judged by society for his appearance. After first being abandoned by Victor, he was left to struggle on his own. “One of the best of these I entered; but I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the child shrieked, and one of the women fainted...beheld in the village.” (Shelley 73). Despite his encounter with the De Lacey family, he risks his own life to save a little girl who is drowning. The girl’s father appears as the creature is rescuing her, and shoots him. The man assumes that he was trying to kill the girl, when he has actually saved her life. Because he cannot escape society's judgement regardless of his behavior, he eventually becomes the monster everyone
