Frankenstein (Blog 7)
By: Mary Shelley

When the creature was leaving Victor's apartment after his creation, he stole some of Victor's clothes.  In one of the pockets, the creature pulled out some papers that were from the journal Victor kept during the creation process.  Now that the creature is able to read, he decides to learn about his creator and situation.  He was shocked to learn about how disgusted Victor was with his creation, and the creature hates him after the De Lacey family rejects him.  The creature angrily seeks revenge againt Victor and returns to Geneva to find his creator.  In the woods, he runs into William Frankenstein.  At first, he intends to have William become his companion because he thought a child would not have negative prejudices against him.  William cries for the monster to let him go and says his father M. Frankenstein will punish the monster if he doesn't let William go.  After learning of his relation to Victor, the monster becomes enraged.  "'The child struggled, and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart: I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet'" (Shelley, 102).  This tragic scene left me questioning the creature's intentions.  Did he actually mean to kill young, innocent William Frankenstein?  Or was he just trying to make the child be quiet so no other humans discovered him?