Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
I'm in a constant battle between deciding if I trust the creature or not. Even Victor is slightly swayed to feel pity and sympathy for the creature. "His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to consol him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred" (Shelley, 106). The creature seems to have an honest, and good-hearted request of having a companion, especially since he has lacked one his whole life thus far. It is what the creature has done is reponse to Victor's abandonment in the past, that would lead me to believe that his intentions are not all good. When the creature killed William, he had intense feelings of triumph, thinking that he destroyed a creation of Victor's. His joy and feelings of success intend that he is not all good, and that though some of his actions could be justified based on his upbringing, he lacks a huge amount of compassion and harvests violent revenge.
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