Fiend In Frankenstein

Throughout the story, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the creature who Frankenstein created has always concerned the audience of who he really is. There were many events in which the story perceived the creature as someone who is evil but it also illustrated the good of him. So the question in mind is, was the creature considered in people’s eyes a friend or a fiend? With this being said, there were many situations that led the creature to be a friend more than a fiend. To being with, the creature is looked upon as a creature because Frankenstein created him and he is not a baby who was naturally born, however, the creature acts like any other human being. He wants love, attention, and care from his creator like any baby would want from their
For example, instead of stealing from the cottage family, he helped them out instead. The creature asserts, “I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained...I discovered also another means through which I was enable to assist their labours.”(Shelley 47). Through these experiences and feelings, the creature has shaped the opinion that he can actually be very helpeful. On the other hand, when one looks that the story, one can see that the creature has the potential for good as well as evil. After realizing that the cottagers left because of him, the creature got so mad that he set the cottage on fire until no one can bring it back. To illustrate, the creature implies, “I fired that straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected. The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames..as soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation..I quitted the scene…”(Shelley 60). Such can explain that the creature can be very evil when he wants to be and when evil is brought out from him, it can be deadly. For instance, because the creature was mad about his existence and cursed his creator for giving him life, he ended up killing William, who is Frankenstein’s brother for revenge. The creature said, “I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet. I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable..”(Shelley 62). Such may regard the creature to be a fiend, however, the fiend part of him was caused by his anger and the events that happened around