victor/creature relationship Flashcards
from beginning victors relationship with the creature is unwanted and problematic
victor fails to give him the innate beauty society expects
creature must figure out he belongs to his own category
creature refers to himself as “hideous”, “filthy”, “horrid” and “detested”
the creature diminishes his worth as a living being complaire himself to men who were made after gods image — “beautiful”
victor repeatedly describes creature as filthy : “filthy creation”, “filthy daemon”, “filthy mass”
by applying “filthy” to “type”, creature identifies himself as an unwanted life and an abandoned, disfigured creation shunned by his respective community
victors “child” (the creature) is linked to his father through his need for completion
both characters transform into monsters, obsessed with destroying the ither
through the creatures threat that hell “be with [victor at his] wedding night” and victors failure to understand elizabeth is in danger, not him, shelley shows victors blindness in his attempts to protect himself from the creature
by putting all blame for all the crimes on the creature the community not only confirms it’s prejudice but also does him injustice, causing him to lose the little innocence he had
even after everything victor did to him, the creature sees victor as a father
“i ought to be adam; but i am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed”
the creature views victor as a god. however victor abandons him, showing his failure at the role
god offered love and paradise to adam while victor offered nothing but loneliness and suffering to the creature
