When first introduced, the story of Frankenstein portrays Victor’s monster as something with no common sense and no feelings. When we read chapters 11 through 16, we learn that the monster had developed feeling, thoughts, and the ability to speak. Having the ability to speak the monster was able to talk to Victor and tell him his life story. The creature tells his story with much detail and tone that we can infer that the monster wanted to make Victor feel sympathy, pity, and mercy for him. Victor had approached the monster with hate, resentment, and the idea to “extinguish the spark” of the monster in chapter 10, because of this the monster believes that his story will help change Victor’s way of viewing him and end all his hate towards him.
When the monster fled, he found himself alone and hideous. Composed by a conglomeration of corpses-parts, the monster was naturally a very blood-curdling being, therefore he was immediately feared and unaccepted by society. No one accepted him or even merely tried to understand him. He roamed the streets in absolute isolation, curiously listening to people talk, but with no one to talk to. The only thing that kept him company and gave him something to invert his time in, was Victor’s precious journal. With time he had taught himself to read, word by word. He learned all about Victor’s gruesome experiments and eventually discovered the nature of himself. Victor had driven the monster from joy for no misdeed whatsoever. After aimlessly stumbling around, the monster ends up at a quaint cottage where he meets an empathic blind man; the only man who accepts him for what he is and shows him kindness. Unfortunately, the blind man didn’t live alone, but with a family of cottagers who immediately discriminated against the monster and aggressively kicked him out. Filled with rage and sadness, and ready to wreak vengeance on Victor for having stripped him from happiness and comfort, he yearns to find his creator. On his way he bumps into William, realising who he is thanks to a pocket watch the boy carried with Victor’s face on it, he kills him in revenge and places the watch in Justine’s pocket.
The monster is convinced that Victor has created him solely to abandon him and make him experience profound loneliness. He finally asks Victor to admit responsibility for his actions and show some sympathy. He also pleads with Victor to build a female companion on one condition; he will hide away in an uninhabited region of the mountains and will never be heard of again.