Making New Friends In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Making new friends is hard to do when you don’t think the person is interesting or amusing. In the novel Frankenstein, Victor never had the idea of becoming friends with his creation or simply teaching the creature to be kind and generous. Instead he ignored the creating making him a horrific monster that terrorized his life. I believe that he never thought of the idea of making him a foe for the reason that he didn’t like his physical appearance and was simply scared of what he could do to him and his family. Another reason why I believe he didn’t help the creature was because he was thinking on how people would view him. This era was surrounded entirely by religion thus making some people want to kill him for what he has

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