him into the world hates him, "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?" (68). What's the creature to do? He has not a single companion in the whole world so he sets out to try and find one. The creature's second encounter with man is no better than his first, "He turned on hearing a noise; and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable" (73). Now the creature has had two encounters with man and they both resulted in the men running in pure horror from the creature. The creature soon realizes that he is "a poor, helpless, miserable wretch" (71) that people hate because he is ugly. The creature even shows signs of joy when listening to music, "and to produce sounds sweeter than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale. It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch!" (75). When the creature sees the interaction of a true family his yearning to be accepted increases, "He raised her, and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overwhelming nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experiencedand withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions" (75). The creature longs to be accepted by anybody especially the family that he considers his protectors, "I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching, and endeavoring to discover the motives which influenced their ac...
