Frankenstein Vol. III

In our reading for today, Victor decides to move away from home for 2 years. He told his father that this would be a chance for him to rediscover himself and retrieve that happiness that he lost. However, he had a purpose for moving away. During this time, he planned to build the creature's female companion. However, he decided one day of stopping the process of building this creature. He leaves his laboratory decides to quit the process. The creature then comes to Victor to ask why did he decide such a thing. The creature hears Victor's regret in agreeing to build his companion and starts to get very angry, in fact, he threatens Victor that if he did not continue to build his partner, he will be present at his wedding night. Victor then decides to throw what was built of the female creature into the water, which made the creature even more mad. The creature responded by killing a man in Ireland, which Victor then discovers that it was Henry.

Victor's motivations for deciding not to go ahead and create this female creature was to not follow his past mistakes of creating a hellish creature that could potentially harm others, as his last creation did. He fought in his mind about the safety of his friends and family and why they would all benefit if the second creature was not created. However, then he found himself worried about their safety given that the creature got so mad and threatened to do something about it.