He is never able to interact positively with others or find friendship, and we can see his self-esteem drop lower and lower the more he is rejected, and becomes increasingly alone and alienated from society. It is this that ultimately transforms him from being kind, loving, and reasonable into a vicious killer. He tells Frankenstein: “I am malicious because I am unhappy. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? Would you, my creator, tear me to pieces and triumph, would you remember and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You wouldn't call it murder if I could fall into one of those ice cracks and destroy my structure, the work of your own hands. Will I respect man when he condemns me? Let him live with me in an exchange of kindness, and, instead of reviling me, I would grant him every benefit with tears of gratitude for his