Frankenstein #3

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the idea of a female monster is brought up. The female monster means different things to different characters. To the monster, the female monster is going to be his companion. In the Monster's eyes, the female monster will be the only other person on the earth that is just like him. The female monster will break the isolation that the monster is living with. The female monster will also be someone that is inferior to the Monster in the Monster's eyes. The female monster will have to learn just as the Monster did and the Monster feels as though he will have a purpose in life. His purpose will be to help the female monster. Along with the monster, Victor also had a view for the female monster. Unfortunately, Victor had a more pessimistic view of creating a female monster. "I was now about to form another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate" (Shelley, 120). Victor believes that a mate is necessary for the monster. Although he believes this, he is afraid of creating another monster that could be potentially more dangerous than the monster that he first created.