Frankenstein 6

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Throughout the creature's first year of life, he learned an incredible amount of information about the world and how he fit into it.  The most important influence on him was the DeLacey family who did not know of his presence until he decided to visit the old man.  That was such a sad scene!  I totally pitied the creature because he just wanted to make their acquaintance and they completely rejected him, as everyone else had.  The family's leaving their home was [one of] the final straw for the creature.  He broke down, set their home on fire, and "bent his [my] mind towards injury and death," (Shelley, page 99).  It was also sad when he came across the woman in the woods and tried to help, but once again, society blocked him from normalcy. I am a nurture theorist, so I blame Frankenstein for neglecting him as a baby(?).  Because of the DeLaceys and Frankenstein, the creature snapped and decided to declare "ever-lasting war against the species," (Shelley, page 97).  Those scenes also evoked pity in the audience, as he just wanted to fit in, and society made him an outcast.