Significance Of The Birth Scene In Frankenstein

The “birth” scene of the creature demonstrates that the creature was not always the monster that everyone thought he was, and that it was due to people’s attitude (including Victor’s) and bias towards him that made him into the monster that he is at the end of the book. The description of the weather in the birth scene foretold the horror feeling that Victor would have towards the creature that he has created. The birth scene started “on a dreary night in November” (pg. 83), with “rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out” (pg. 83). From the first paragraph of the birth scene readers can tell that the creature that he has made would not be of his likings, because the environment around him is dull and sad, …show more content…
What Victor did, left the creature feeling alone, without anyone to nurture or teach him to fit into society, therefore leading the creature into darkness and Victor’s tragedy. Another idea that the birth scene convey is that evil/monsters are not born, they are made, because even though Victor used harsh words such as “forced its way through the window shutters” (pg 84), “detained” and “escape”, he did mention that the creature had “a grin wrinkled on his cheeks.” (pg. 84) which meant that the act that the creature made may have been out of kindness and innocence, and not what Victor thought it was. This scene also reveals that the creature was not always a monster that everybody knows him to be, he was once innocent and kind, but it was through the acts of other people that he came by, that caused him to become the monster that everyone knows nowadays. In a sense, it puts guilt into what Victor has done that night, as things could have gone in an opposite direction if Victor could have accepted the creature in the first place instead of escaping from