monster

demonic earth single tradition · 1

The monster proposes that Victor Frankenstein create a female creature so that the monster can have a wife. He promises that if Victor grants his request, he and his mate will vanish into the wilderness of South America, never to reappear. The monster witnesses Frankenstein destroying the unfinished bride, fails to get Victor to put it back together, and vows to be with Victor on his upcoming wedding night, murdering Frankenstein's new wife Elizabeth.

When

First attested
1818 CE
Attested period
1818 – 1818
Historical notes
First appeared in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).

Relationships

co occurs with
bride
created by
Victor Frankenstein

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Sources

Source passages

“In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein is tempted by his monster's proposal to create a female creature so that the monster can have a wife: "'Shall each man,' cried he, 'find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?'"”

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