"You are my creator, but I am your master- obey!" Page 122
In his creation of the monster, Victor is its assumed master. The creature itself claims that he considered Victor his God, and itself Adam. Yet the situation changes, as the creature points out above. Victor feels himself "chained", "imprisoned" and "contained" by his promise to create another female monster. He is bound by his love for his family. However, at the end of the novel, when the creature is in the cabin with Victor's body, it weeps for its "master and creator". This confusing part of the situation, as well as the creatures intense sadness at the death of Frankenstein, creates a strenuous relationship between creature and master that is never fixed, and constantly changed throughout. The reader sees a continuous cycle of pity and compassion between these two beings, followed by hatred and vengeance, malicious intents and then back to pity and sympathy.
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