Internal Conflict In Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein wanted to create life. His conflicting motives, whether self-centered or for the betterment of humanity, is one of the driving forces in Mary Shelley's Romantic novel Frankenstein. She vividly depicts Victor's self struggle as he bitterly regrets animating a hideous monster who is responsible for the deaths of his friends and family. Although the novel mainly centers on Victor, a differing internal conflict is experienced in the mind of the horrid creature that he created. In the beginning of the Creature's life, he questions who is and his place in the world. He asks himself is he really a monster? The Creature possesses all the characteristics of a human. He only turns into a monster when rejected by society. The Creature
When he is out in the beautiful spring, in the elements that he so enjoyed, he forgets his solitude and deformity and "dared to be happy." Suddenly a girl who was playing by the river falls in, and the Monster jumps in, fights against the current, and pulls her out. He saves the very beings he swore to be his enemies. Then a man appears and snatches the girl and runs away. When the Creature follows, the man takes out a gun and shoots him. Once again the Creature showed kindness toward a human being, but because of his monstrous features was rejected. "This was then the reward of my benevolence! I've saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to a hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by vengeance to all man kind." From then on the Monster burned with rage and vengeance for all humanity and his creator. He finds the hometown of Frankenstein and kills his younger brother William. This begins the Monster's plot to rid his creator of the happy and comfortable life the Monster could not have. Murdering innocent people can definitely be described as monstrous acts, but the Creature only commits these crimes after being rejected and isolated from the love and gentleness he has seen in humans. He wanted to experience love and compassion and to give it as well, those are not qualities of a monster. He only became a monster because that's how society saw him. They could not see past his deformity. The Creature became what they expected him to be. "Where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend they beheld only a detestable