Frankenstein Group 3

In these chapters, we sympathize with the monster because he is treated as an outcast.  He watches a family that occupy a little cottage and learns to speak and understand the language of those people.  After a great deal of time he also learns that there are mothers and fathers that take care of children and are loved by different family members.  He doesnt understand where he came from and is saddened by the thought that he doesnt have anyone in his life to share these feelings.  His internal feelings become more and more depressing as he learns this.  "Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was" (91).  His appearance is what he is most concerned about because when he looks at his reflection he can only see ugliness, and he is greatly affected by this.  He musters up the courage to present himself to the family only to be rejected and attacked, even though he spent months and months learning their history and growing to love them from a distance.  He decides that his self worth is useless on this earth and he is miserable and mad.  He decides never to let himself become close to anyone else.  "There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery" (95).  As a society today, the way you look and present youself says a lot about you.  Those that are not attractive are less acceptable by the world compared to those who are considered "beautiful".  The monster was learning this first hand, because he was so ugly that no one could look at him without fleeing even though his heart was kind in the beginning.  This sort of teaches us a lesson, not to judge someone based on their looks, but what is really inside.  This proposes a couple questions; Do you think there was anything else the monster could have done differently for the family to accept him and learn of his being?  Do you think as the monster gains more knowledge that he will become increasingly dangerous to humans?