Pathos

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the creature's unjust treatment by humankind evokes much pathos. At first, the novel portrays the creature as a ghastly evil being because this is what Victor believed it to be. However, as the cresture's true nature is revealed, his unjust circumstances evoke sympathy. I am personally on team creature. I'm not sure what Victor expected the creature to become after being raised on its own and being taught nothing but hatred for the human race that did nothing but unjustly rejected and despised him. The creature says to Victor, "Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, who thou drivest from joy  for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend." The creature presents an excellent point to his creator. He was not inherently evil, but the mistreatment he received from the world, and even from his master, inspired hatred and introduced malice to his being. The creature deserves pity, though he has committed several heinous crimes. He wishes to be good and desires no more than a frien, but even this small request is time and time again denied until his good heart learns to resent those who resent him for no reason. Victor and humanity cast the monster aside and show malice towards him for no reason other than he looks quite horrid. The creature naturally learned to hate humans in return. Victor, though I pity his losses, deserves no sympathy. It is his own fault that his loved ones are dead, and his fault again for not seeing the reason in the cresture's request which eventually leads to the death of Elizabeth.