This Is Actually Not Okay What If I Lost All Hope For Humanity Right Now Right This Second

this is actually not okay what if i lost all hope for humanity right now right this second

I sob every time I read the last chapter of Frankenstein.

And it’s always the same exact thing that makes me sob.

Walton’s ship. Victor has just died. The creature is looking at his corpse. Walton sees him. The creature goes to run.

Walton asks him to stay

The creature had spent almost his entire life being so good and loving and was pushed to murder by the world turning him away. And now, after he has a kill count of 3, 5 if we include Victor and Justine, after he has committed atrocities. It is NOW- NOW that someone wants him to stay. Someone sees him as a person instead of a monster. Almost as if doing all these horrific things made him more human. In the beginning, he was too good to be a human. I adore humanity but we are deeply flawed. And the creature figured this out the hardest way possible.