Throughout the entire novel, the Creature is exposed to stimuli that shapes the being that he becomes. The Creature is inherently social, but the stimulus of the villagers shaped who became. When he tried to peacefully talk to the them, he was shunned on more than one occasion. The first time is when he wanted to introduce himself to the cottagers and in result, Felix runs at him and, ¨[strikes him] violently with a stick¨ (Frankenstein, 134). When the Creature kills the young boy, he is introduced the the stimuli of destruction and the satisfaction it brings. From there, he realizes that, ¨[He] too, can create desolation; [his] enemy is not invulnerable,¨ (Frankenstein, 141) which only furthers the Creature on his path of destruction, which
