Frank. - Chapter 13

- Description of the Arabian in the veil is deeply romantic and detailed
- Creature makes use of the cottagers teaching Safie to speak their language, by using them to teach him also
- Wants to be able to boast his more rapid grasp on language than Safie's
- Book 1 - Volney's Ruins of Empires. Learns of current affairs and history through the book; relegion, politics and philosophy
- Finds that man has the power to be virtuous, and destructive - evil vs. godlike
- The creature finds 'disgust and loathing' at the fact that one man can kill another. is this hypocritical of his future actions against Victor?
- Conciders that he is stronger and more risiliant that humans, and finds this to be a downside and not an improvement. 'Was i, then, a monster? a blot upon the earth?'
- 'What a strange nature is knowledge' shows how he conciders knowing things to be painfull and horrid. Contrasts Victor's original character; one whose hunger for knowledge never ends
- simile - 'It clings to the mind...like a lichen on the rock' poetic negative description
- 'but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death...i feared [death] but did not understand [it]' like all humans, he fears death. fear of the unknown; gothic
- has the desire to become one among his neighbours, but the conversations and smiles are not directed at him, and this makes him a 'Miserable, unhappy wretch!'
- 'No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses' shows the theme of abandonment - Frankenstein abandoning his creation, his child
- calls the cottagers his protectors. Infactuation with the cottagers? developing an unhealthy obsession with the family.