"I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers-- their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how I was terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity." (page 80). The creature is incredible eloquent for only being alive for a year or so. He learns the way of the world quickly by learning how to act, eat, breathe, and speak, but he cannot speak to many people since he is so horribly ugly. He had watched a family for a long time and he wanted to be friends with them and look like them. However, when he looked in the pond, he could not even stand the sigh of himself. He hated himself and his creator for giving him life that he abhorred so much. He scared himself and his deformities made everything worse. I think he resembles a person with terrible self esteem because of his looks. Now I fully understand that he is in a different situation because...well..he isn't real and he was randomly given animation, but he still has developed humanly feelings. He feels self conscious and quite honestly he hates himself because of how he looks. He has developed so many human characteristics that it amazes me. I don't understand how he can become like a human, but this is one of those things I think I just need to accept because it's not a real situation. The creature has a long way ahead of him though and Frankenstein also does because he has to deal with everything the creature makes him put up with.
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