[Music] one day the monster saw a beautiful young lady arrived at the cottage to Felix's great delight she was Saffy Felix's loved Saffy did not speak French so Felix used a book called ruins of Empires by the comfortable need to teach her the language from listening to their lessons over two months the monster learned to speak and read French too he also learned about world history and mused on the nature of humanity these thoughts prompted the monster to look inward and he realized that he had nothing that would gain mankind his respect no money no
friends no kind of property this knowledge tortured the monster and he yearned to once again be ignorant knowing only the feelings of hunger thirst and cold he also longed for friends and relations for another being resembling him and for interaction with others again the monsters situation parallels victors as they both seek education and then come to realise that knowledge changes a person knowledge is desirable but too much knowledge or knowledge used unwisely brings misery as Victor's abuse of science to exceed the powers of humanity shows more knowledge also makes the monster unhappy when he learns
about what he does not have knowledge used for good however is beneficial as is shown by the monster helping the delay sees both victor and the monster are set apart from humanity the monster by his hideous appearance and victor by his monstrous creation the effort of keeping it secret and the tragedy it causes the duality between the monster and his creator is central to Frankenstein part of the impact of the novelist the fact that Victor never realizes how similar he and his monster really are which in this chapter is shown by the monsters thirst for
knowledge paralleling Victor's and recognition that knowledge sometimes can bring pain as well as pleasure the mention of ruins of Empires is significant as it was a radical denunciation of the religious and political status quo in the world and was published two years in the French Revolution Percy Shelley knew it well and it influenced his political thought Saffy's arrival and reception provide a contrast to the monsters treatment Victor rejected the monster because it is hideous and the delay sees will in a few chapters do the same this differential treatment exemplifies the injustice of humankind that the
Comte de Volney describes on an individual scale [Music]
