"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend." (pg. 69)
Clearly, when the creature first comes to life, Frankenstein is terrified of him. He believed that his creation would be wonderful and spent years making him. However, at the first spark of life, he runs away with fear. Frankenstein immediately judges the creature to be evil. However, when we first meet the creature, he insists that he used to be good. He tells the story of the family that he helped. He had nothing but good intentions for them. By nature, the creature was not evil, but good. By nurture, how people treated him, the creature lost that trait.
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