The monster approaches him at the summit and insists Frankenstein hear his plight.
Meanwhile, Frankenstein exiled himself to the mountains to reconcile his grief and despair. Heartbroken and enraged, the creature renounces all humankind, swearing revenge on his creator for abandoning his grotesque creation to a cruel and intolerant world. Still hopeful but bewildered, the creature rescues a peasant girl from a river, but is shot in the shoulder by a man who claims her. When the rest of the family returns, they are terrified of the creature and drive him away. The blind man cannot see the creature's "accursed ugliness" and considers him a friend. He learns to speak by listening to the family teach French, their native language, to an Arabian daughter-in-law, and the creature becomes eloquent, educated, and well-mannered in a short time.Īfter much deliberation about revealing himself to the family, the creature introduces himself to the patriarch, the blind father, and who accepts him into his home and treats him with kindess. Eavesdropping on the family's conversation, the creature familiarizes himself with their lives and comes to regard them as his own family, referring to them as his 'protectors'.
He finds brief solace in a woodshed beside a remote cottage inhabited by a family of peasants, the DeLaceys. Abandoned, frightened, and completely unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness searching for kindness and acceptance. The creature horrifies Frankenstein, and the scientist immediately disavows the experiment. Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguously described scientific method consisting of chemistry (from his time as a student at University of Ingolstadt) and alchemy (largely based on the writings of Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus, and Cornelius Agrippa).
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