Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The thematic topic of guilt plays a major roll in the lives of Frankenstein and the creature, as well as vengeance. We start in this section by seeing the creature's guilt of killing William just because of his relation and for killing Justine, who were both innocent. The guilt pushes the creature to want to change his ways and become good, so he asks for a companion. Well, Frankenstein feels extremely guilty for releasing this fiend into the world and cannot allow himself to create another creature. The guilt of Frankenstein cause him to be seriously ill throughout the remainder of his life. He has the guilt of creating the creature piled onto the guilt of allowing the creature to kill his innocent friends and family members. The creature, on the other hand, felt guilty about killing all of those innocent creatures. The creature at the time of the killings was blind by his hatred. However, now that he looks back, he sees that he has become evil when he wanted to be good. The creature says, "'My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy!'" (Shelley, 106). The creature knows that he originated as a good creature, and he feels guilt at the end for not being strong enough to maintain his goodness.
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