"....and I did not strive to control them; but, allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the exquisite beauty of the Arabian, these thoughts vanished, and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and, unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects." (99).
The creature shows that he is actually a round, dynamic character in a way. He is present throughout the entire story and he ends up being well developed even though he has only been alive for a year. He has excellent speech, he is literate, and he knows the ways of mankind. Not many people who are fully developed and are real even have his knowledge that he portrays. At the same time though he is very contradictory at times because he cannot make up his mind about his feelings. He has very real, humanlike emotions, yet he cannot control them as easily as other humans can. The creation has a difficult time realizing what feelings are rather than concrete words, but he figures out anger and hatred pretty quickly. He also ends up learning about love and connection as he felt like he had with his "friends" that he spied on for a year. He realizes that he can never be like them and it puts him in a deep depression and extreme anger toward his creator because he was abandoned and absolutely no one wants him. This makes him turn to anger and malice. It portrays almost a disgusting view of humankind because the fact that he was able to learn mischief so easily in less than a year from humans shows the values of society today. While the monster has not had the same "upbringing" so to speak as humans do or should, he has learned valuable lessons about what he should or shouldn't do. Unfortunately, he has been acting in ways he should avoid because of his lonely nature.
The creature shows that he is actually a round, dynamic character in a way. He is present throughout the entire story and he ends up being well developed even though he has only been alive for a year. He has excellent speech, he is literate, and he knows the ways of mankind. Not many people who are fully developed and are real even have his knowledge that he portrays. At the same time though he is very contradictory at times because he cannot make up his mind about his feelings. He has very real, humanlike emotions, yet he cannot control them as easily as other humans can. The creation has a difficult time realizing what feelings are rather than concrete words, but he figures out anger and hatred pretty quickly. He also ends up learning about love and connection as he felt like he had with his "friends" that he spied on for a year. He realizes that he can never be like them and it puts him in a deep depression and extreme anger toward his creator because he was abandoned and absolutely no one wants him. This makes him turn to anger and malice. It portrays almost a disgusting view of humankind because the fact that he was able to learn mischief so easily in less than a year from humans shows the values of society today. While the monster has not had the same "upbringing" so to speak as humans do or should, he has learned valuable lessons about what he should or shouldn't do. Unfortunately, he has been acting in ways he should avoid because of his lonely nature.
