How does felix change when safie arrives
Safie also forms an indirect connection with the creature as he learns by listening in on her lessons with the De Lacey family. Felix sees the injustice during his trial and wants to help him escape from prison and the death penalty that he faces. This shows the way that Safie was simply the means to an end. The Turk wants to get out of his punishment by the French government and Safie is just what he needs to do this. She is beautiful enough and charming enough to keep Felix on board with helping until the Turk could get what he needs from the relationship: to be free.
When Safie leaves Felix intimate letters pertaining to her family, it shows that she does trust and value him. Later on the in the chapter, Felix helps the Turk escape from prison and they are all together. Once again, the Turk is simply using Safie as a way of securing his safety and freedom. The Turk is faking his feelings towards Felix so that he will remain loyal to the plan that they have devised and almost completely carried out.
The Turk's lack of caring towards Safie's feelings show his true motives which are everything but kind and fatherly. So now that he is afraid of being found, he is ready to get out of dodge and leave his daughter where she might be questioned or get into trouble with French authorities. Safie is along for the ride with her dad, the Turk, but he simply wants her around because of the advancement and security she would provide for him.
After he thinks he will be able to leave safely and secretively, he leaves her without any reservations. Safie is used by her father as a pawn throughout his questionable travels. When Safie arrives at the De Lacey cottage in chapter five of Frankenstein , she is welcomed in the way that an actual family member would have been.
While living with the De Lacey family, they begin to teach her their language, which, in turn, promotes learning with the creature. This is the first example that is given where the creature is provided a more formal way of learning what the cottagers know. It is more formal in the sense that he is not simply overhearing their day-to-day conversations, but getting second hand lessons through Safie.
If it were not for Safie, these lessons would not have taken place and the creature would not have had this kind of teaching. The creature even mentions that they are learning together, which solidifies the way that Safie is affecting his education and bringing him a remote form of companionship Shelley The women scream in terror, and Felix, in a "transport of fury," violently beats the creature with his walking stick.
The creature, his heart still full of love for the De Laceys, cannot bring himself to retaliate. Instead, he flees the cottage and takes refuge in his hovel. The creature's discovery of the satchel of books is one of the most significant events in the novel. Sorrows of Werter and Paradise Lost are arguably two of the greatest books in the history of world literature: they thus serve as examples of the highest beauty which mankind is capable of producing.
Similarly, Plutarch's Lives exalts the work of heroes, thereby providing another illustration of human virtue and accomplishment. While the satchel furthers the creature's knowledge of civilization, and of the triumphs and sufferings of men, it also, in his own words, teaches him to "admire the virtues and deprecate the vices of mankind. Paradise Lost is the most important of the three books with regard to the creature's burgeoning morality.
Milton's poem concerns itself with the struggle between God and the Devil, which is, at least in the Western imagination, the most important, most epic battle between the forces of good and evil. The fact that the creature regards the books all of which are fictional as true histories illustrates that his childlike credulity and innocence has survived his early suffering.
And yet, the books themselves shatter that innocence: through them, he feels the tragedy of his predicament for the first time. He feels himself to be forsaken, and cannot decide if he is most like Adam or most like Satan: he decides upon the latter because he is so much an outcast, completely without guidance or protection.
The struggle between good and evil described in Paradise Lost is also an allegory for the struggle within each human being, and within the creature himself. At this point in the narrative, warring impulses vie with one another for the creature's soul: will he behave as a man, or as a monster?
By the end of the chapter, the reader is not certain which of his impulses will prevail. As Felix is mercilessly beating him, the creature is unable to lift his hand against him: in this way, the reader sees the creature's innate humanity. If he later behaves as a monster, the reader cannot help but understand why: he has been terribly abused and reviled by those people whom he loved and trusted best. Despite his essential goodness, he is hated, and so he can only hate mankind in return.
The creature curses his creator for giving him life. Only his great rage, and his consuming desire for revenge, keeps him from taking his own life: he longs to "spread havoc and destruction around [him], and then to [sit down] and enjoy the ruin. He falls upon the ground in utter despair and, at that moment, declares war upon all mankind for its callousness and cruelty.
With the arrival of morning, the creature allows himself to hope that all is not lost: perhaps he can still endear himself to the elder De Lacey, and thereby make peace with his children. When he returns to the cottage, however, he finds it empty. He waits, tortured by anxiety, until Felix finally appears in the company of a strange man. From their conversation, he learns that the De Laceys have determined to leave the cottage out of fear that he the creature will return.
The creature cannot believe that his protectors, his only connection to humanity, have abandoned him. He spends the remains of the day in his hovel, by turns weeping and feverishly contemplating the revenge he will take upon mankind.
By morning, he is overcome with fury, and burns down the cottage in order to give vent to his anger. The journey is long and arduous, and the weather has grown bitterly cold. Though he primarily travels by night, in order to avoid discovery, he permits himself to travel during daylight on one of the first days of spring.
The new warmth soothes him, and the sunlight revives some of his former gentleness. For a few precious moments, the creature "dares to be happy.
At length, a young girl comes running through the forest, and he hides himself beneath a cypress tree. As he watches, she suddenly stumbles and falls into the rapidly moving water; the creature, without thinking, leaps in and rescues her from certain death. As he is attempting to revive her, a peasant presumably the girl's father snatches the girl away from him, and shoots the creature when he attempts to follow. The creature bitterly contemplates this "reward for [his] benevolence," and is seized with a new, even greater hatred of humanity.
Shortly thereafter, he arrives in Geneva. Once again, a child runs past his hiding-place in the deep woods. The creature is much taken with the beautiful child, and speculates that he is still too young to feel hatred for his deformity. He seizes the boy's arm as he runs past; the child screams in terror and struggles to get away. He calls the creature a "hideous monster," and says that his father, M.
Frankenstein, will punish him. Upon hearing the name of Frankenstein, the creature, enraged, strangles him. He feels a "hellish triumph" at the boy's death, and reflects that his despised creator is not, after all, invulnerable.
The creature takes the necklace, as he finds the picture of Caroline exquisitely beautiful. At the same time, the image fills him with redoubled fury, for no one will ever look upon him with the divine kindness he sees in Caroline's eyes.
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