"Wretch!" I said, "it is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings; and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend! if he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance. It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is withdrawn from your power."
First off I would like to say, “I like the captain, and he is the first person in the story who has a conversation with the monster (other than Victor, of course)
Walton brings up a very good point that the monster only cares now that he has seen what he has done and that if Victor were still alive he would still torment him. Although I do see the genuine care from the monster. Victor was the closest thing the monster had in the cruel world, it must have been hard to see him die.
We all go through what the monster has gone through. At the time we may think that what we are doing is not wrong, but once we see the consequences of our actions we feel guilty. The monster’s life has been filled with remorse and guilt, almost everything he has done has had a negative consequence from man kind. Once victor is gone, he feels a sense of emptiness. A sense that he has never felt before and one that he will never feel again since he is going to die.
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