Frankenstein: The Delacy Family

As established earlier in this paper languages are very important in Frankenstein. Learning a language provides the same aspect with the creature as he learns words once again from the observation of the Delacy family. From this point in the novel the creature has only seen and learn a few things. He does not know everything around him and is only slowly learning because of his constant watch of the Delacy family. Thanks to this family the creature is beginning to learn words for some common objects and items. We are told of some of the objects which he learns the words to: “ I learned and applied the words fire,milk, bread and wood” (78). Here we can see the creature learning words on his own without any guide. Unlike Victor and even Walton