Comparison

"'Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded'" (Pg 96).

When the monster describes his miserable mood and feeling alone I immediately thought of both Walton and Victor. All three seem to complain of the same feeling. However, there is a difference between the two men and the monster. Walton and Victor are miserable and alone because that is the nature of the work they have chosen. Walton is sailing towards the North Pole while Victor secludes himself to his experiment and now currently his guilt and thoughts. On the other hand, the monster is miserable because he is not able to acquire affection like these men so easily are. He is ugly and terrifying to most humans. Yet he yearns for some type of positive attention. It seems that these characters could almost be foils in that Walton and Victor choose to be alone, while the monster is pushed from society. Yet isn't it the monster that deserves the love and attention? For he truly is the one helping humankind by supplying firewood and doing the many chores of Felix. But the other two are trying to help mankind through the work of science, which has ultimately been nothing but a failure to Victor.