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The creature makes a request of Victor: to create a female companion. What is the basis for the creature’s request? What is Victor’s reaction to the request? How does the interaction between Victor and his creation impact Victor? Explain how the creature’s request affects Victor by analyzing the relationship between Victor and the creature. Provide evidence from the text to support your analysis of Victor and his interaction with his creation.

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When the creature makes the request to Victor to create him a companion, The creature basis was that victor “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being." Victor replies “I do refuse it,” Victor refused the Creature request because he didn't want torture to come to an unwilling person. The Creature request affects Victor because he didn't want to make another wicked monster, " I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent.”

Step-by-step explanation:

The being finished speaking and fixed his looks upon me in the expectation of a reply. But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition. He continued,

“You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.”

The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers, and as he said this I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me.

“I do refuse it,” I replied; “and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent.”

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The creature asks Victor to make a companion for him, a woman, so that he has company and no longer lives in solitude. In the beginning, Victor is compassionate and even thinks about creating this woman, but Victor has many hurts in relation to the creature and this causes this compassion to turn into renunciation. The interaction between Victor and the creature, affects Victor in a negative way, he feels very guilty for creating the creature, which uses this guilt against Victor in the most efficient way possible.

Step-by-step explanation:

The creature is extremely intelligent, but very lonely. He asks Victor to create a company for him, a woman with whom he can share his experiences and have a company, in return, the creature promises Victor that he will leave and that he will never interfere in his life.

The creature is very eloquent and for a minute, she even gets the compassion of Victor who knows of his loneliness. However, the creature manages to manipulate the compassion and guilt that Victor feels admirably and all this manipulation makes Victor turn his compassion into hate and disgust, refusing to create a companion for the creature.

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