Why does the creature want a female companion in Frankenstein?
And just as God gave Adam a mate of the same kind, so the creature demands a female companion, who “must be of the same species, and have the same defects” (155). It is this fallibility that makes Victor agree and then second-guess himself as he constructs the creature’s mate.
Why does the creature want a female companion?
The creature wanted the female companion, because he had no one to love or care for like the other humans did. The creature killed the Henry, because Henry is another person the Frankenstein care for and he was Victor’s best friend. Victor continues to anguish, because he losses another close person to him.
Why did Victor initially agree to create a female companion?
Claiming to be evil because he is hated by man, he says that a companion will remove the need for him to feel hatred toward man.
What is Victor’s request?
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature wants Victor to create for him a mate so he won’t be so alone. When the creature first makes his request, Victor flatly refuses. He believes the presence of a mate would allow the creature to be more dangerous than he already is by their sheer number.
Is Victor right to refuse to make a companion for the creature?
Frankenstein decides that he has a moral duty to destroy the female companion he is making for the Monster. He realizes that even if the Monster is not innately evil, he can’t be sure the female companion won’t turn out to be evil.
Why does Victor’s father believe he is unhappy?
Victor tells his father that all of their deaths and pain are his fault. His father thinks he is still delirious from his depression. What does Elizabeth believe is the cause of Victor’s unhappiness? Elizabeth feels Victor’s unhappiness is caused by his soon to be marriage with her.
What does the creature say he will do if Victor makes him a female companion?
What does the creature say will happen if Victor creates a female for him? He will leave him alone.
Where does the creature say he will go if Victor consents?
Where will the monster go if Frankenstein consents to the request? What will it do there? To the vast wilds in South America. There, it will eat acorns and berries and make a bed of dried leaves.
How was Elizabeth murdered by the creature?
While Victor is prowling the halls of the inn where the couple was living, the monster makes good on his threat to Victor, enters their bedroom, and strangles Elizabeth. Victor shoots at the monster when he flees, but the monster gets away without being wounded.
How does Caroline Beaufort die?
scarlet fever
How did Safie’s father betray Felix?
The De Lacey family history is told through this chapter. The monster tells that the family was once well regarded in France with wealth and social position. Felix aides Safie’s father in a plot to subvert the biased French justice system and free the Turkish merchant from death on the gallows.