Shelly’s
portrayal of the monster is like that of Milton’s character of Lucifer. Like a
jealous child, the daemon sometimes comes off as more bitter than
malevolent, and like Satan he strikes at the favored family of his creator. The
monster hanging over the grave of his creator in the books final scene seems to
mirror the image of Madam Frankenstein hanging over the corpse of her own late
father shortly before her deliverance from great misfortune. Frankenstein’s
monster was not so lucky and no savior came for him.
Are we therefore meant to see the daemon as a
victim of his circumstance, and the avatar of Frankenstein’s punishment for
being a negligent parent (which is own parents never were)? Or is the daemon (much like Satan himself) simply so
eloquent and self-serving that he entices an undeserved feeling of pity in an
effort to try gain our forgiveness for things which are inherently
unforgivable. Who are we meant to blame for the horrible misfortune of the
family Frankenstein and their friends (the human race) - Frankenstein( God), or
his monster(Satan) ?
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