Sympathy for the Devil is a concept that most people of low intelligence cannot understand. Sympathy should be the first thing you think of when the main character of Frankenstein is mentioned, the unnamed result of Victor Frankenstein's laborious task in the novel's opening chapters. The “monster”, we will call him, came into the world innocent as a newborn baby; it had been neither corrupted by the wickedness of man nor contaminated by the animalistic ferocity of nature. When the monster realizes the intrinsic poverty of the elementary components of human happiness with which he was brought into the world, his nature is corrupted. It is because of the lack of love for a family, the security of belonging, and a creator watching over him that he is driven to have a bitter outlook towards his existence. Sympathy is warranted towards the monster's plight, as any rational being can understand the misery of a creature in such miserable circumstances. The monster deserves our sympathy because he is a victim of circumstance. Most humans alive today were raised by a parent or guardian. Rarely is a human being left to his own devices to grow from childhood. It would certainly be an unpleasant experience to have no protector, no one to take care of you, no one to help you discover the emotions that human beings are capable of feeling. Sympathy is well deserved for all creatures who are thrown into the world without guidance, left to learn the world's cruelty for themselves. Victor abandons his creation, which is comparable to a mother abandoning her child. "And yet you, my creator, detest and despise me, that creature, to whom you are bound by bonds dissolvable only by the annihilation of one of us." (Shelley 89) The monster is saying… middle of paper… is ultimately foiled by humanistic prejudices. He was just a victim of circumstance; so we should feel sorry for him, not condemn him. The creation of Frankenstein was a victim of circumstance. He who is brought into the world alone, without any protector to guide him, and is brought to desolation. A person without a partner is unhappy, condemned to spend his life without pleasure or companionship. A man who is expelled by those he considers his fellow men, lives a miserable life, alone with infinite misery. Any creature degraded to this degree of torment deserves our sympathy. The monster is driven to its misery and, due to its anguish, transforms from a docile and loving creature into a ferocious and malevolent animal bent on revenge. Frankenstein's monster was a victim of circumstance and therefore deserves our sympathy. Works Cited Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley