The monster's behavior was directly related to, his experiences with society and its treatment of him. All behavior is learned, therefore if the monster was to be good or evil depended on societies reaction to him. Even though the monster had a fully matured body, he was like a child because he had no memories or experiences of his own. When the monster was given life he had no concept of good or evil. Everything that he did or.
experienced was something new to him. All of the monster's behaviors would have to be.
learned .
The monster's first encounter with another being occurred the night that he was born. Shortly after the monster was given life, he was feared and hated. From the moment of the monster's birth Victor hated and despised it, rather than embracing and loving it. In the monster's crucial moments of development, he got his first experience of hate and fear. The monster had the same needs that a child would. Like a child at birth, the monster should have received love and care. Instead Victor, his father, hated the monster and ran from it. .
The monster later encountered a poor farming family. The monster watched the way that the different family members interacted with one another. In his observation of them he learned the lessons that his father had neglected to teach him. The monster learned the concepts of love and affection. When the monster watched the family he felt feelings of happiness, instead of feelings of loneliness. Eventually the monster had learned the family's customs and understood their way of life. He realized that even though the family was not rich by their standards, they were rich by his standards because.
they knew happiness, instead of fear and loneliness like himself.
The monster tried to meet the family that he had grown to care for so much. He went to talk to the blind father. Since the father had no sight he did not judge the monster by its appearance, instead he listened to what the monster had to say.
