Frankenstein chapter 16

Chapter 16 of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley gives the once benevolent creature the horrible bad name that we associate the monster in Frankenstein to have. In the opening of this chapter, a simile is employed to describe the change in the creature. "I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness,"(Shelley,97). Suddenly, the monster is propelled by hatred, and his change in character is compared to the outrage of a wild beast. This signals the creature's prompt for revenge upon humans who reject him and whom he finds evil. Furthermore, "I declared ever-lasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery,"(Shelley,97). What is to follow in the preceding pages of the novel are most likely going to events of destruction and hatred inflicted to any one who crosses the creature's path. This prejudice the creature has for all humans will have horrible effects. I am starting to see the creature as having the capability and motives for killing William and maybe even more. The creature has become the daemon, wretch, and monster which Victor has claimed him all along to be.