In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein secretly creates a monster without considering the consequences. After the monster's creation and throughout Victor's life, he and the monster suffer constantly. Because Victor keeps his monster secret from his family, friends, and society, he is alone and unhappy. The monster is also lonely and unhappy because he is shunned by society due to his grotesque appearance. Victor remembers his childhood as a happy time with Elizabeth, Henry, his mother and father. But looking back, Victor sees his first tragic event, his mother's death, as "a harbinger, as it were, of [his] future misery." Chapter 2 He blames his passion for education as the impetus for his suffering. “in drawing the picture of my first days, I also remember those events which led, in insensitive steps, to my subsequent tale of misery: because when I wanted to account to myself for the birth of that passion, which subsequently governed my destiny” CHAPTER 2At the age of seventeen, Victor leaves his family and attends university in Ingolstadt. Like a mad scientist, and without anyone knowing, he locks himself in his apartment and after two years of obsessive work he creates his monster. Even during this period of following his passion, Victor is unhappy and suffers from illness. “and now every day showed me more clearly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by anxiety, and I seemed more like one condemned by slavery to work in the mines, or to any other unhealthy profession, than an artist engaged in his favorite occupation. Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever and became painfully nervous; the falling of a leaf frightened me, and I avoided my fellow men as if... in the middle of a sheet of paper... and now that his latest victim is dead, he is ready to die. he will die. I will no longer feel the agonies that now consume me, nor will I be prey to unsatisfied but unsatisfied feelings. The monster leaves the ship until his apparent suicide. Chapter 24Both Victor and the monster suffer tremendously both physically and emotionally throughout their lives. Victor's physical suffering was caused by his inability to cope with his tremendous guilt and secret. The monster's physical suffering was due to the abuse inflicted on him by society's fear of him. Both also suffered emotionally; they were both alone, Victor because of his isolation-causing secret and his inability to admit and reveal what he had done. The monster suffered emotionally due to his creator's rejection and society's inability to overcome his grotesque appearance and accept him for who he was..