One day while in the forest, the creature stumbles across three books in a suitcase, “I can hardly describe to you the effects of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection” (108). As the creature continues to pursue knowledge, these books form all kinds of emotions within him, and more often than not he was in a depressed state after reading them and learning of mankind 's sorrows and cruelty toward one another. Upon reading the books, the creature identified most closely with those in Paradise Lost, as he learned of a creator and his beings, “But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions. I read it as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history. It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting” (110). Because he has no one to guide him through this process, the creature often misinterprets these works of literature as real events in history and not as fiction as they were written to be. He does not understand that Paradise Lost is just a story and he connects with the book because he was a creature create by Victor just like God and Adam, yet he did not have the love from Victor like Adam did. As a result of having no guidance during his pursuit of knowledge, the creature misunderstands aspects of mankind in which he mistakes fiction for reality and discovers the flaws of
One day while in the forest, the creature stumbles across three books in a suitcase, “I can hardly describe to you the effects of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection” (108). As the creature continues to pursue knowledge, these books form all kinds of emotions within him, and more often than not he was in a depressed state after reading them and learning of mankind 's sorrows and cruelty toward one another. Upon reading the books, the creature identified most closely with those in Paradise Lost, as he learned of a creator and his beings, “But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions. I read it as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history. It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting” (110). Because he has no one to guide him through this process, the creature often misinterprets these works of literature as real events in history and not as fiction as they were written to be. He does not understand that Paradise Lost is just a story and he connects with the book because he was a creature create by Victor just like God and Adam, yet he did not have the love from Victor like Adam did. As a result of having no guidance during his pursuit of knowledge, the creature misunderstands aspects of mankind in which he mistakes fiction for reality and discovers the flaws of