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Victor Frankenstein's Monster
Victor Frankenstein's repudiate for the monster and the civilians reject are the outside elements that concludes in the monster becoming _______ Furthermore, while Frankenstein and his monster were conversing he reveals, “You, my creator, abhor me. Your fellow creatures spurn and hate me” (55). Frankenstein’s monster shunning and persecution resulted in him changing his personality and retaliating because, he could no longer hold his emotions within. Furthermore, his great feelings of vengeance for the society left the monster to kill and destroy. In addition, the overwhelming environmental influences of hate compels the monster to “be no more [so I] shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me (127). Being neglected by his creator

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