The Destruction Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creation of a second monster leads to the destruction of Victor Frankenstein’s health. The monster is tired of not being accepted by the human species, and demands Victor creates a female monster companion for him. The monster pleas and reasons for hours about why Victor owes it to him to create a female companion, and Victor finally gives in. He agrees on the condition that the monster must abandon the territory forever, which Victor must believe will put a cease to the destruction of his own health: “I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile”
His entire mood and aura changes: “Employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual sense in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous” (120). His mood is changing and he can sense a familiar uneasy feeling of sickness growing in his stomach. His experiment continues, and deep down he understands how unethical his experiment must be: “I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question, but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil, that made my heart sicken in my bosom” (120). He senses how wrong creating this creature is, and how much evil it could very likely bring. Victor is caught in a hard place and is faced with making an ethical decision. He must create a monster for the greater good of saving the people from the monster going on a depressed rage, even though he understands how much it will destroy his overall mental and physical state. This is eerily similar to what we must face on a daily basis, as we must often times make decisions regardless of the impact it has on