[Music] the chapter continues the monsters narration as he relates that one evening he found a suitcase of books that he read and thought about deeply especially Paradise Lost he contrasted himself with Adam when he thought about the love the delay sees showed for each other when he thought about how he envied them he felt like Satan he also read some of Victor's journal tracing the monsters formation he wanted to show himself to the delay seas but waited for some months meanwhile the delay sees whom the monster had come to see as his own family were
happier since his Saffy's arrival the monster again compared himself to Adam but he had no Eve and his Creator had abandoned him that winter the monster waited until mr. delacey was alone the monster hoped to be able to speak to him since delacey was blind he would not be afraid of the monsters appearance the monster told the old man of his isolation and yearning to be accepted by his friends not specifying that he meant the delay sees the old man offered to help just as the monster was about to admit that these friends were the
delay sees he heard Safi Felix and Agatha returning he told mr. de Lacy you and your family are the Friends of whom I speak do not desert me in the hour of trial the three arrived back at the cottage I get the fainted Safiye fled and Felix beat the monster with a stick the monster ran away the monster reads Milton's Paradise Lost one volume of Plutarch's lives illustrious Greeks and Romans and Garrity's Sorrows of Young Werther all major texts the last a key document of the Romantic movement the monster pours out all that he has
learned drawing on all his language and communication skills when he meets Victor and tells his story becomes educated the monster thinks about his condition and yearns for a mate Mary Shelley uses mr. de Lacy in the common literary device of the blind person who sees more clearly than the sighted when the monster asks his assistants and helping him befriend the family mr. de Lacy knows he is sincere and becomes willing the blind man who does not see how horrific the monster looks is the only person who can perceive his true nature when Felix and Agatha
de lacy reject him the monster learns that the delay sees were not as kind and tolerant as he had supposed he had romanticized the family making them into the ideal family he wishes he could join showing his desperate desire for human companionship and relief from isolation and loneliness [Music]
