"Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mischief"
pg 165
Modern Translation? Yea I've killed a whole family, but I'm gonna kill myself now. Trust me
Walton is seriously dumb. He listens to this horrific story of a monster, then just lets it go. Talk about anticlimactic. With the Creature's reasoning, it could justifiably kill every family in the world,so why end it all now? I think this is the final proof that the Creature has a heart. The big lug feels bad, and obviously French novelists never write about therapy becauses Creature has learned that death is the only way out. A bit drastic, but thus it's the end of the sotry... sort of. My theory is that Mary Shelley was through with listening to bogus scary stories so she finished hers quickly to really get the vacation going. Either that, or she was hoping an actual writer would finish it for her via sequel. I really hope no one thinks this is a sufficient ending.
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