Frankenstein

In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, the monster finds a hovel. It becomes his home and his sanctuary while he learns the language slowly without the eyes of man to scorn him . When Safie comes to the family, the creature acquired a partner to learn the language of the DeLacey family. He begins to compare himself to her. He acknowledges her affect upon the family's morale. Their faces brightened when she arrived at the cottage. Soon, they learn the language, but the monster learns at a faster rate. Priding himself on this, he relayed it to Victor: "I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken. (84)" He hopes that since the DeLaceys accepted a foreigner from a distant land and who did not understand the language, they will accept him too. He has done things for the family like collecting wood while he learned the language. He believed that he had more to offer them than the Arabian, yet they treated him differently. Once he presented his gruesome exterior to the family, the parallels diverge. Where they loved and adored Safie, they screamed and fainted at the sight of the creature. His hope crushed; he realized that he would never be accepted by man.