No amount of humor or eloquence can abolish my opinion that this creature is evil. I'm not blaming it on him, but you can't expect to say the phrase "satiated with the blood of your remaining friends" and evoke any pity.
Traditionally*, I make predictions at the halfway point of a novel and then see how did after I finish the entire story. There's analysis to back up most of these predictions! I'm basing these mostly on the fact that I think the creature has very human qualities (sympathy, humor, eloquence, etc.) but somehow definitely winds up evil. Let's go!
- The creature murdered William; somehow, he acquired the knowledge that some of Victor's friends are dead, and he was totally at the crime scene a few weeks later.
- Victor will not be open to the creature's story; there's this natural revulsion that Victor feels toward the creature, and I don't think anything will sway him to feel bad for the creature.
- The creature will kill Elizabeth; my only real support for this prediction is that if Elizabeth dies, Victor will be twenty times the hot mess he is now, and that would make for a great plot twist.
- The creature's intelligence will surpass that of Frankenstein (if it hasn't already); we need some sort of explanation for why the creature ends up being pulled by dogs to the North Pole, and his working vocabulary is already massive.
*Traditionally: I did it for Brave New World (in your pants) and Never Let Me Go (from your pants).
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