After reading Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley, the true murderer of William, Victor Frankenstein’s younger brother, is finally revealed. However, it turns out the murder was committed due to great internal conflict within the murderer, the creature. After being neglected and feared by his own creator and the DeLacey family, the creature decides that the only person on the planet who would not run in fear of him is a child. After coming across William, he reasons, “this little creature was unprejudiced, and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity,” (Shelley, 102). However, it turns out that the creature’s hopes are dashed. Not only is William terrified of the creature, he also brings up that he is the son of Frankenstein. This is then where the creature’s true internal conflict comes into play. Without realizing that William is Victor’s brother, not son, the creature believes that Victor has a family who he did not abandon. The idea that William was accepted and loved by Victor but he was ignored does not sit well with him, and the creature cannot take it. In the end, he unintentionally kills William, but it appears as though the same end might have been brought upon William at some point if the creature did not kill him then. Internal conflict plagues the creature all throughout the novel, and this instance is one time where the conflict gets the best of his temper.
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