A monster and his creator as one. The main characters of Frankenstein desperately seek, but never find, the ideal sympathetic companionship, and as a result the novel's plot repeatedly dramatizes the failure of social sympathy. As stated by Jeanne M. Britton “Frankenstein offers a version of sympathy constituted by the production and transmission of narrative as compensation for the failures of face-to-face sympathetic experience.” To clarify, Victor Frankenstein's sympathy comes from the feeling of harming the human race. An example of this is displayed when Victor first creates the creature, and then again when the monster asks him to build a female version. Victor says from the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley: “If I were right, because the artificial body of the monster creates unreal circumstances. As Denise Gigante says, “He is, like the blood and viscera that flow from the cracks of his skin, an excess of existence, which exceeds representation, and therefore appears to others as a chaotic escape from his own representational shell.” He cannot feel the touch of another human being or experience the emotion that one might give to another. Shelley does a good job of considering her species to be different in nature, and because she has such a hideous, deformed body it prevents the sympathetic experience. A great example of this is when the Creature observes the De Lacey family. He sees the family and begins to describe them and their unhappiness. In the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley she says: “They were not entirely happy. The young man and his companion often separated and appeared to cry alone. I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be unhappy. But why were these kind beings unhappy? (Shelly Ch.12) The Creature cannot understand the unhappiness of this family. They don't have to live in a miserable body like him, so why are they like this? The Creature is able to explain to Victor the torture he was subjected to and what he would like from Victor to compensate for his abandonment. He appeals to Victor for sympathy and explains that he wants a partner. Not just any partner, but a companion. Victor, however, does not believe he can do so with good awareness. William Veeder explains: “The name of symbolism, which reinforces Victor Frankenstein's arrogance in attempting to eliminate the woman as he attempts to win eternal fame as the founder of a new race of superhumans. Instead of submitting to the will of the community and family, the scientist asserts his ego by challenging the laws of nature." (William Veeder, 1986: 226) Instead of “submitting” to the Creature, and essentially mending a torn relationship. He destroys women with his selfish nature. At this point there is no hope in thinking that Victor and the Creature can have the compassionate relationship that the Creature desperately wants.