"How inconstant are your feelings! but a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that, with the companion bestow, I will quit the neighbourhood of men, and dwell as it may chance in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled for I shall meet with sympathy! my life will flow quietly away, and, in my dying moments, I shall not curse my maker." (Chapter 18, Pg. 146)
In this exert the monster accuses Frankenstein's feelings as being inconsistent, yet he later expresses his future ambivalent feelings toward his creator. What is Shelley trying to portray by doing this? And why is the monster so willing to forgive Victor?
Shelley is trying to show that the monster should forgive Frankenstein because after all he is the monster's creator. The monster is willing to forgive Frankenstein because he is making a companion for the monster so that he is not alone in the world.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mr. Haney that Shelley is trying to portray that the monster should try to forgive Frankenstein. Not only is Frankenstein the creator of the monster, the monster now is getting something he wants, a companion, and because Frankenstein is going to try to give the monster that, the monster is so willing to forgive.
ReplyDeleteThe monster is willing to forgive Frankenstein for the fact that he not only created him but also put off his marriage to Eluzabeth so that he can make him a companion and obtain his obligation to the monster of making a companion
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