Frankenstein+SG+Chapters+XVII+and+XVIII

1. What, according to the creature, is the cause of his wikedness and what will be the remedy? 2. What does Victor suggest is a creator's obligation to his creation? 3. Follow Victor's and the creature's lines of reasoning in their debate over the creation of the companion. Whose reasoning is most sound? 4. Why does Victor refuse to make a female monster? Do you feel hi is justified in his refusal? 5. What is the "sympathy" that the creature longs for? 6. What is different about his solitude at the beginning of Chapter XVIII from his solitude while first creating the monster? 7. What does Victor's father think is the cause of Victor's present anxiety? 8. What are some of the reasons Victor feels he must go to England to complete his task?

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