When Victor meets the Monster again after making him, it is right outside the closed city gates. I imagine this is supposed to have some type of connection. He can not escape into the safety of the safety just like the monster ca not escape from his looks/ the reaction of people when they see him. It’s at night, cold, and dark. The perfect scene for something like seeing an ugly murderous monster.
Victor follows the monster and then listens to his story today I will explain why. Victor follows the monster with the intent of fighting him to death to correct him wrongings. Which makes little sense because The monster could easily overpower victor in a fair no weapon fight.
In chapter 11 the monster stalks a poor family. He learns seral things from stalking them, using their resources, and copying them. He learns that fire is bad and good; it can hurt him if he touches it, and it gives heat to keep him warm. He learns that humans are terrified of him because he is big and ugly.
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As Felix teaches Safie french the monster listens/ stalks them. During this time the huge creature learns a lot about the “strange nature of human society”, today I will tell you two things. One, The Roman Empire, The monster finds a book, Ruins of Empires. Which is all about base civilizations, such as the Roman Empire and others. Two, All this literacy is both good and bad (like fire!); it helps him understand the world, but it also reminds him that he can’t really participate in the world, because of how the humans reject him at every turn. He’s ugly and alone, and now he really grasps how much. He gets kind of depressed. The monster finds the book in chapter 15.
The Daemon realizes that the cottagers he is stalking are in a poor situation. Then he finds out how they got there. Here is how they got there, Safie’s Turkish father was accused wrongly of a crime (like Justine), and sentenced to death in Paris. While Safie was on the lookout for a European man to marry. Why? Because her mom (a Christian Arab captured by Turks) taught her that Muslim men treat women like property. And Christians don’t because they don’t want to be like those “ Heathens”. Felix takes the blame and the snecks away to the place they are now.
After the monster finds out why the cottagers are in a poor situation the monster feels sad for them. Even though the monster is sad for a very different reason this makes him feel closer to the cottagers. He now really wants to talk to them. The monster concludes that the cottagers are his last hope for social acceptance. Since De Lacey is blind and the younger people regularly leave him by himself during the day, the monster prepares to obtain De Lacey’s trust and acceptance and in turn be trusted by Felix, and the other two. *Spoiler, it fails*
The monster reads several books during his time stalking the cottage inhabitants. The most important book for him is Paradise Lost, which the monster mistakenly perceives as history instead of fiction. The Satan charter is the one is sees himself in the most. He learns about history from the book Ruins of Empires that Felix uses to teach his girlfriend Safie. The book is about base civilizations. This once again makes the monster feel sad that he will never be truly human in the eyes of others.
The monster plans to reveal himself to the cottagers. He prepares to acquire De Lacey’s trust than to have the man give a good word to the rest of his housemates to win them over. The monster thinks it will work. So while all the young people are away, he goes to De Lacey, they come back too soon and kick him out. The monster thought it would work, it did not.
After the cottagers move away the monster starts wandering and somehow make it to Geneva, on the way he saves a little girl from drowning and gets shot for it. This makes him even madder at humans. De decides he needs to take a child as a companion because they are less judgemental than adults. He treis to take a boy named William, finds out the boy is a brother to Victor a strangles him. Such a happy ending.
