In the final chapter of Frankenstein,
the creature does express remorse for his heinous acts because they have caused the
death of his creator. Certainly, he weeps over the body of Victor Frankenstein, whom he
has loved from the moment he opened his eys, displaying more feeling for Victor than
Victor has had for him. As he regards the body of his creator, the creature is filled
with the "wildest rage of some uncontrollable
passion":
'That is also my victim!...in his murder my
crimes are consummated....Oh, Frankenstein! generous and self-devoted being! what does
it avail that I now ask thee to pardon
me?'
He tells
Walton,
But it
is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless...I have
devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration
among men, to misery....your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I
regard
myself.
Then,
as he looks again upon Victor, the creature speaks of his "bitterest remorse" and tells
his creator that the desire Victor has had to seek revenge is not as great as the desire
for vengeance against himself that he feels:
Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior
to thine; for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to
rankle in my wounds until death shall close them for
ever.
Despite his having
exacted revenge against Victor, the creature feels sorry for his creator and rues that
he has destroyed the man he loved in destroying all that Victor loved. Indeed, there is
a plea for forgiveness in his awful remorse.
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