A Truly Evil Creation

"It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night" (Shelley, 123). This is a pivotal line in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Victor believes that the creature hopes to bring him misery through the prospect of his own death. However, the attentive reader concurs that the creature will continue his previous path of destruction through the murder of Victor's loved ones, in this case, Elizabeth. The creature is clearly an intellectual being, for he knows that Victor no longer values his own life. Rather, Victor's concern is for the well-being of his loved ones. Nothing causes Victor more pain than to see the death of his friends and family at the hand of his own creation. Victor blames himself for these deaths, and thus brings unprecedented misery upon himself. Just as the creature hoped to counter the pain of the lack of a loving father by killing who he thought was Victor's son, so to does he hope to counter the pain of the lack of a companion by killing Victor's bride-to-be. The creature seeks revenge.