Shelley gives the creature the most reasonable argument in the book. Read the opening letters as a frame, then notice who is doing the pleading and who is doing the abandoning.
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
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You will be glad to hear that no disaster has come with the start of an enterprise you regarded with such gloomy predictions.
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
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I was kind and good; misery turned me into a monster. Make me happy, and I will be good again.
The thing in the house is usually the thing in the mind. Every answer comes with the reason and the line that proves it.
Student of natural philosophy, and a maker
Made, then abandoned
That's the whole thing.
Read it again slowly — it gets better the second time.