The creature lists a number of his grievances before he declares his "inextinguishable hatred" toward his creator, VictorFrankenstein . He says that he is "malicious" because he is "miserable"; he is "shunned and hated" by every human being he has ever met, even when he has done them a...
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good turn. The creature recognizes that Victor hates him, and he asks, "Shall I respect man when he condemns me?" He understands that humans, once they observe him, will always hate him because of the way he looks, and he looks the way he does because Victor created him that way. He swears that he will not live as a slave, and he will not allow himself to be harmed with impunity. The creature, thus, calls Victor his "arch-enemy" precisely because Victor is his creator. Every painful rejection that the creature has been forced to endure, whether it be from a stranger whose daughter he just rescued to the DeLacey family to the child,William, has been the result of Victor's creation of him as a hideous creature, and so he blames Victor for all of his misery. Ultimately, he promises that he will devote himself to Victor's own destruction, compelling Victor to feel as alone as the creature, himself, feels.