Sympathizing With The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

I think we can empathize with the Creature because for all of his strength and his body made up of corpses he is a child essentially. Because when Frankenstein said "That body is not dead, it never lived, I created it," I saw it meaning although the brain is a fully grown one and the body as well every experience for him is a new one. That is why he tried to grab the sun not understanding the concept of how far away the sun is. With Maria he did not know until after she did not float he did something wrong and panicked, no "monster" would clearly show signs of distress and fear after killing someone but he di, with the murder of Fritz both he and the audience did not really feel anything because he was abusive and not an innocent person. However in the end he is presented as the villain of the story because of the way he looks and the actions he took, although we could justify saying every death is Frankenstein's fault the creature is the one who killed Fritz and Maria and hurt several other people. …show more content…
Frankenstein probably was more interested in stopping the monster because of his personal guilt but the Mayor was there and every townsmen except the Baron was there. It made it feel as though they felt they had a duty in service of the town and their friend who lost his daughter. So although the classes were clearly divided with clothing, homes and such they all were shown doing a civic duty even if ti is a kind of odd one in chasing down a monster no one questioned why they were doing it nor who should actually be