The creature expresses a variety of different characteristics in the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. Sometimes he can act in a way that could be mean or evilish, but at times he acts nice and sincere. That leads the question to if the creature is more of a friend or fiend? When the creature is awaken, he begins to see all the surroundings around him and describes what he encounters. He sees Victor, his creator, and while Victor is yelling at him calling him the devil, all the creature wants is for him to hear him. The creature explains “my soul glowed with love and humanity,”(Shelley 42). This shows how the creature wants to be loved and doesn’t understand why Victor is acting so mean when he has done nothing to him. As the story goes
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The way he describes the cottagers and the love he has for him proves to show that the creature doesn’t have wrong intentions for humans, he just wants to be apart of people’s lives and be loved. The creature acts like a human in many ways by having thoughts about his life and how did he come to be. To illustrate, the creature says “But where were my friends and relations?,”(Shelley 51). As seeing the cottagers love each other and how great of a family they have come to be, Frankenstein now wonders how come he doesn’t have a family that cares for him or gives him that affection that the cottagers give each other. All the creature wants most in life is to be loved and cared for, but he can’t have that because Victor created him without a family and Victor doesn’t even take care of him either. As he starts to confront new people, his experiences shape him to the person he begins to become. People are scared of him and begin to be rude even though the creature isn’t doing anything to them and only wanting to become friends with them. With this going on, the creature decides to do some fiend things such as start to kill people, and even though he says enjoys it, deep down inside he doesn’t mean to do it. He describes himself as “
The way he describes the cottagers and the love he has for him proves to show that the creature doesn’t have wrong intentions for humans, he just wants to be apart of people’s lives and be loved. The creature acts like a human in many ways by having thoughts about his life and how did he come to be. To illustrate, the creature says “But where were my friends and relations?,”(Shelley 51). As seeing the cottagers love each other and how great of a family they have come to be, Frankenstein now wonders how come he doesn’t have a family that cares for him or gives him that affection that the cottagers give each other. All the creature wants most in life is to be loved and cared for, but he can’t have that because Victor created him without a family and Victor doesn’t even take care of him either. As he starts to confront new people, his experiences shape him to the person he begins to become. People are scared of him and begin to be rude even though the creature isn’t doing anything to them and only wanting to become friends with them. With this going on, the creature decides to do some fiend things such as start to kill people, and even though he says enjoys it, deep down inside he doesn’t mean to do it. He describes himself as “