William

• Who is William?

  William is the name of Shelley’s son. It helps her to process grief of her loss and also being responsible for her mothers death.
• ' sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eyelashes and curling hair’


  William has innocence and perfection
• ‘William is dead!’


  His childhood innocent has been shattered by the monster. Shown by abruptness of phrase
• ‘the print of the murderer’s fingers were on his neck’


  strangulation becomes a symbol of the monster. It is an intimate death & involving physical touch. Even through taking lives, the monster is still seeking connection to his victims
• ‘this picture is gone, and was doubtless the temptation which urged the murderer to the deed’


  The locket was taken. It had a picture of a mother inside. The monster takes the mother figure as he wants a connection. By taking it, her reconstructs the role of the mother to use it for revenge and to cause injustice
• William violates the monster


  He is found in the monster's recesses
• ‘listen to me’


  originally the monster asks William to listen to him as he desperately wants companionship
• ‘I grasped his throat to silence him’


  The death was accidental as the monster does not know his own strength
• ‘this death will carry despair to him’


  if there is other victims, the monster is not alone.
• ‘a portrait of a most lovely woman. In spite of my malignity, it softened and attracted me’


  may be a reclamation of power. Or an adopted parental figure. Or superficially he is attracted to her, it is a sexual awakening. Freudian ideas. The mother is a victim of the male gaze. He finds the locket after the murder, unlike Victor believing it to be the motive. It highlights society's arrogance and lack of understanding. It is the theme of conflict between the individual and society. It is the idea of different narrators and it being an act of revenge of temptation
• The monster finding the locket


  The monster finds the locket after the murder. The real motive was the frustration from rejection. It highlights societies arrogance and lack of understanding. Conflict between the individual and society. Comparison of perspective