"Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come from? What was destination? " (91)
The Creature had no family, and had to learn everything on his own. As a result, he did not get the emotional parenting that he needed. This lead to him basically becoming a psychopath, killing everyone that gets in his way. Since he did not have parents to obtain love and comfort, he became attached to another family, but did not trust that they would accept him for many months. He watched them patiently hoping that they would be different. As he watched, he became more confident that these were good people that could love him. This, however was based on their interaction with each other and not on their interaction with anything hideous and monstrous that they accepted with out question. The monster wanted so badly to fit in that he was unrealistic in his expectations and aloud himself to get hert. This is similar to a teenage girl that dates that bad boy. If she were thinking relationally, this obviously sounds like a bad idea, but other things cloud her judgment like belonging. This what the monster was deprived of in his development, and after he is rejected and scorn by the family that he hoped he would find acceptance, he no longer had hope for anything.
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