and Adam, and the 12 year old moderately well educated child....
The monster, feels alone, not understood, instinctively reviled. Is this not how we all feel from time to time in our weaker moments? Raaaaaaaa!
Adam, the new person. Set down on the earth. Seeking.... But how do I relate to my creator? The monster hates the creator for giving miserable life, a life of sorrow, coldness and hardship.
The 12 year old looks at the problems of the earth and scratches it's head. It's all so obvious. Put it right now. 30 minutes and all the problems of the world are corrected. It's obvious - straightforward. And in truth, it is.
As the monster describes, even his strange creation results in him seeking love and affection. Instead he is reviled and violently rejected. All are repulsed instinctively and feel aggressive loathing. Even the blind father, who initially is sympathetic, is swung by the experiences of his family.
Mary Shelley wrote of her self, "awoke and discovered - no mother." Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died of a fever when she was seven weeks old. She was then neglected by her father and abused by her step-mother, and ran off with Shelley as a teenager.
At the end of the book we wonder, was this just a psychotic experience? Fantastical, unbelievable. And then the monster appears.
Next book - Paradise Lost.
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