- 01/03/2013
- Posted by: essay
- Category: Free essays
In the literature of Romantic period the narration usually goes in the first person. Thus, the narrator and the character is the one person. That is why he or she can tell about its felling in details.
The creature found Victor’s journal in his pocket and started to read the story of the four months that preceded its creation. Victor described all the disgusting details of his works and the ugly appearance of his creation. Sure, the creation was very unhappy to read this description. It felt the despair.
“Hateful day when I received life!” I exclaimed in agony. “Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” (Chapter XV)
Later the creation felt loneliness: God created people after his own image, Satan had his companions, and only the creation was lonely, even its creator hated it.
The creation tried to make friendship with the old blind man and his children, but they banished it away.
“Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung: in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.” (Chapter XV)
In its suffering the creation traveled in search of somebody who could like it. But all its attempts were useless: when people saw it, they did not notice its kind deeds and ran away from him.
During the travel the creature learned the joy of killing the enemy, when it smothered the boy, and disappointment, when it understood that woman could never love him.
“I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph: clapping my hands, I exclaimed, `I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.” (Chapter XIV)
“she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.” (Chapter XIV)
Thus, it asked Victor to create the ugly female creature for it.
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