Creature

• If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
• All men hate the wretched


  • Monster to Frankenstein about existence
  • Hyperbole
  • Ashamed
  • Society prejudice
  • Rousseau of society should be of natural state because organised society corrupts human harmony
  • Being the result of Frankenstein's impure and blasphemous ambition
  • Existence impure and imperfect of human creation
  • Could've been welcomed in despite his abhorrent appearance if society not organised
• Gentle ass who's intentions were affectionate, but manner was rude, 


  • Society prejudice
  • Animal imagery
  • Rousseau
  • Appearance vs. reality
• Did I request thee Maker to mould me man?


  • Paradise lost/intertexuality
  • Parallel of monster to Frankenstein
  • Religous/Biblical Symbolism
  • Cursed existence
• When they were unhappy, I felt depressed, when they were rejoicing, I sympathised with their joys


  • Monster
  • Capable of empathy, caring, loving, intelligent on the inside
  • Shelly reinforcing belief about looking at the heart than appearance
• I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam


  • Biblical imagery and comparison
  • Monster making reference to his relationship to Frankenstein as God and Adam
  • Irony of him being the fallen angel of Satan instead of being the amiable creation that was Adam
  • Cursed existence
  • Prejudice
  • Frankenstein's result of ambition to be disastrous and perilous
  • Result of meddling with creation
  • Creation sacred
  • Frankenstein experienced isolation and suffering like Adam and Eve did when they seeked for knowledge
• These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings


  • Social prejudice
  • Romantism.
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Juxtaposition
  • Nature.
  • Consequence of unnatural creation
• How dare you sport thus with life?
• I was benevolent and good; it was misery that made me a fiend