Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Quote: "But it is true I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept,and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worth thy love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which i regard myself. I look at the hands which executed the deed; i think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long moment when they will meet my eyes, when it will haunt my thoughts, no more."

Question: All of a sudden why does he regret ever leading Victor Frankenstein on a journey of a wild goose chase? Why does he regret what he had seeked for all along, revenge?

Comment: It is a very dramatic change in the story now that the Frankenstein monster now received his revenge but is sorry. He is filled with guilt now that he had lead Victor Frankenstein to his death by provoking, and destroying Victors life. The climax has now change my thoughts about the Frankenstein monster and his nature towards others and his creator. I now know he has sympathy for his creator and is filled with guilt to the point of which he wishes to never had sought revenge.

Christian Cacho