4.1.2 The Monster’s Ambition
Frankenstein’s creature is having very awful appearance like a monster, his height is superior human and his joint is suppler. When he has gone from Frankenstein’s
house, he spends his day roaming through the valley and the forest. He starts to learn from Frankenstein, in his time, he learn many things from human especially from when
he hide under the house of his cottagers in Ingolstadt and he admire the perfect forms of the cottagers, their grace, beauty and delicate complexions. Ironically, when he views
himself in transparent pool, he is only seeing that he is only reality monster which make him filled with bitterest sensation of despondence and mortification.
He is totally lonely, having no friend and having no relation. When he finds Frankenstein, he says all of his condition about his lonely, and his question about who
actually he is. He tells his tale about the first time he feel light, hunger, thirst and darkness and no distinct ideas occupied his mind all those all which make him confused.
Until he is questioning his friend and relation because no father who has watched his infant days and no other who has blessed him with smiles and caresses:
“From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion. I had never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any
intercourse with me. What was I? The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans.” David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 120
This is because he has never seeing anyone looking like him, nor the size of the body and this is also because every people he meet is only looking him as a monster. He
is only getting bad treatment by human and finally stays living in the forest. He is totally lonely and has no one to ask his identity.
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Being ignorance by human due to his ‘deformity’ with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome, he is looking for Frankenstein, as his creator, to ask
Frankenstein his right for life. He knows that Frankenstein is his creator, which he considers as his ‘father’ because Frankenstein is the one who have given him a life.
“Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He
had come forth from the hands of god a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his creator; he was allowed to
converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.” David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 :
129
He says himself as Adam. This can be happening by seeing the story that he is alone and no one is like him. If the monster is the Adam so Frankenstein can be
considering as the God who give a life. Here, in the beginning of his life, he is described with his good nature and his virtuous. Yet, he is still alone.
“Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss,
from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a friend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 96
He admits that Frankenstein is his creator and he is only a creature. He says he is fallen angel is may as the message that he should ‘fall’ and keep stay in the ‘heaven’, or
in this case may mean he should be never exist. Yet, like a story of Adam and Eve, everything has done is done and can’t be canceled. He is already exist, alone and having
miserable body although he is benevolent and good. He is only request to Frankenstein
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for making him happy and he will be virtuous again. Here is his description about his companion:
“You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand
it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.” David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 146
He requests a female for him because if he is the Adam, he needs friend like Eve for his companion. A female for him is needed to make him has friend to talk, to share
and to live together and for interchanging each day look of affection and kindness. This is only can be done by Frankenstein as his father, his creator and his ‘God’. At that time,
Frankenstein agrees to make a female for him. “For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature
were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness. These motives urged me to comply with his demand.” David
Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 98
Having hearing the full tale of the monster, he began to feel his duty as the creator to the creature to give the creature happiness and it makes him want to fulfill the
monster request to create his companion since the monster request is only create a female and he has been promising to exile for the human habitation because in fact, the monster
blames Frankenstein for the hateful day he receives from society. He blames Frankenstein because he is only get pain in life. One he finds Frankenstein, he tells his
entire story and his complain. “Accursed creator Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you
turned from me in disgust? God, in image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his
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companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.” David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 130
He curses Frankenstein that gives him life but only alone without any companion. Formally, this is true because any animate thing need friend to be with especially human.
Yet, he may not a human but he is life and has feeling so it is no wonder if he asks any friend. It can be consider as basic requirement. He make Frankenstein has to promise to
create one like him to be his companion: “We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition. I
am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be
of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.” David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 144
After hearing his entire tale, Frankenstein agrees to create a female for the monster because he knows he has duty for making his creature happy. Surely after the
monster promise to only stay with his female and live in exile. “Turning to him, therefore, I said. “I consent to your demand, on tour solemn
oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place in the neighborhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hand a female who will accompany
you in your exile.”David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 149
But in the process of making the female, he feels more darkness inside and all prejudice what the monster will do with his female. Here is the emotion and rationality
takes the part. He feels darker because of his emotion towards the monster so he keeps
delaying the time for making the female yet he still make it as his duty or it can be called as imperative since he says that “I was the slave of my creature Page 156. Though,
when in its progress, he stops his work because of the prejudice that shows his
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rationality. He know that monster has sworn to quit the neighborhood and hide himself in desert but his companion, the female monster, has not make that promise and she may
become thinking and reasoning animal and refuse to compact made before her creation. Frankenstein even thinks that they two, the monster and the female monster, may hate
each other and other prejudices: “They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his
own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eye in the female form? She also might turn with disgust from
him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own
species. David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 169
The monster is totally in anger seeing Frankenstein break his promise. For all those reason, the monster decides to make a revenge to Frankenstein due to create him
like monster, being alone and break his promise to create a female for him. He knows he is fearless and powerful so he will be able to do his revenge and make Frankenstein feel
the pain of being alone too. At that time, the abhorrence totally fills his heart. “I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that
gazes on your misery. Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful. I will watch with the witness of a snake, which I may sting with its venom. Man, you
shall repent of the injuries you inflict. David Campbell Publisher Ltd.,1992 : 172
The monster began to make treatment to Frankenstein that he will repent of the injuries he inflict to the monster by being alone and being hated by human. The
advantage for the monster is that he is more powerful than normal people so he is being fearless. Here is the start of his revenge for making Frankenstein know how the feeling
of being alone.
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In conclusion, the monster is being ambitious to make revenge because Frankenstein breaks his promise to create a female for him to accompany him in his
lonely day. He is being lonely is also affected by the reaction of the people when seeing him. For those reasons, he has ambition to make Frankenstein pays his mistake for
creating the miserable monster who has no friends.
4. 2 The Effect of the Ambition
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