Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein expects that he will be welcomed into the cottagers' home, only after of course explaining his condition. It is by his observations of the foreigner, Safie, that he grows to the assumption that the cottagers would welcome him as they welcomed the foreigner, Safie. "I soon percieved, that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds, and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by, nor herself understood, the cottagers" (Shelley, 82). She, although completely human, was in a similar state as the creature is. He, as is Safie, is a product of a foreign upbringing. "I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I persuaded myself that when they should become acquianted with my admiration of their virtures, they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity" (Shelley, 93). His personal deformity and foreign status ended up being too grand of a difference for the cottagers to look past.
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