Towards the end of the novel, Robert Walton finds the monster mourning over the the body of Victor Frankenstein. This created mixed emotions for the reader. The reader would like to feel pity and remorse for the creature but his actions throughout the book make it tough for the creature to deserve these feelings. The creature was devastated and felt some of the blame for Victor's death as he made him completely isolated from others.
At this point, I felt pity for the creature as all he wanted was a friend and Frankenstein was never able to give him this. All the creature needed was one friend, it could have been anybody, even Frankenstein himself. This friendship never occured because Frankenstein felt ashamed of what he created. In the end, Victor is the reason I felt pity for the creature. He never gave the creature a chance. He abandoned it upon creation and was the result for how the creature acted. He ended up hurting others only because he wanted to hurt Victor. He wanted Victor to feel the pain that he had gone through. He wanted Victor to be alone in the world as he was. Overall, he just wanted Victor to feel remorse for leaving him all alone in a world he was unfamiliar with.
Throughout the whole novel, the monster suffered. He had no friends and was killing people of importance to Victor. He felt guilty for this only because he wanted revenge on his creator. Despite killing all of these people, the creature is not a villain. He is more of a product of poor parenting and never had the guidance in his life to teach him right from wrong. A tragedy is a more appropriate word for this situation. The creature never wanted any of this to happen. He felt extreme remorse for his actions and now feels even worse because the only shot of a companion he ever had, is now dead. If he was not abandoned by Victor, no one would have died and the creature could have developed his own sense of right and wrong and may have been able to fit into society.
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