Block 7 - Ch. 17 Pre-Reading: What SHOULD Victor's response to the creature's request be? by Sara Lakatos

2025-10-15 14:46:13 UTC

I believe that Victor's response should be positive and do what the creature tells him to do. The creature now knows the way of life and is harmful, and he wants to have someone like him so he can enjoy his life with another creature. He will teach the female creature the way of the life that he learned so it can just be them two on the earth.

2025-10-15 14:46:15 UTC

Victor's next step for the creature should be to make him a companion. He abandoned the being he gave life to and should not be capable of leaving it lonely for all of the creature's life. He must make it a companion; he owes that to it.

zzuchowski27 — 2025-10-15 14:46:35 UTC

I believe Victor's response to the creature should be that he is going to make this creature a female. If the creature gets what he wants then there is more of a chance that the creature won't harm people anymore like he did to William. By Victor making this creature a female he is keeping him and others more safe rather than making the creature more angry.

2025-10-15 14:46:43 UTC

I think Victor should try to explain why creating life was so horrific for him after he had done it, that way him and the creature may come to an agreement with one another once and for all, and the creature can understand why he would not want to create any other life forms. Victor should also apologize for his mistreatment.

gdesmet27 — 2025-10-15 14:47:04 UTC

I believe Victor should either create the second creature, or care for the creature himself. Victor set him out into the world to suffer, and the creature at least deserves to have someone to care for him. If Victor cannot care for him or find someone who cares for him, the blame for his loneliness ultimately falls on Victor. The second creature will also not be in as much pain as the first, as it will have someone else to look over it, to teach and to guide it. It will not feel the pain the original creature felt being rejected, the creature and Victor don't even have to tell the second creature that the creatures were rejected by human society.

2025-10-15 14:47:14 UTC

Victor should give the creature his own Eve. It's Victor's fault that the creature is lonely, and if Victor truly wants nothing to do with the creature, it would definitely leave him alone if the creature wasn't lonely. If the creature had a female companion, he would have someone to talk to, to teach, and to be accepted. Victor should agree, but still try to make sure that more of the creature's kind cannot be made other than the two that he would make.

2025-10-15 14:47:31 UTC

I think that Victor should pretend to start making the creature a companion and put the creature out of his misery when he finds the right moment to do so. I think Victor should do this because I believe that if Victor follows the creature's orders, the creature will continue to demand things, and Victor will become a slave to the creature.

2025-10-15 14:47:36 UTC

I think Victor should not make him a companion but instead should befriend him and help him understand society, if Victor learns to accept the creature everyone around him will do the same and it will leave everyone with peace and happiness. If Victor does make another creature it could and most likely will go badly and end up having a worse outcome than when he made the original creature.

dbarahona27 — 2025-10-15 14:47:45 UTC

Since Victor is the cause for this creation he should carry the commitment of being his comapanion instead of making another creation. Another creature would be a scenario of the blind leading the blind, it would do no good and only lead to more chaos. Victor could care and guide the creature in correct ways and reduce the problems of his creation.

pliuzza27 — 2025-10-15 14:47:48 UTC

I think Victor should fulfil the creatures request and create him a companion. Victor has already done enough to sabotage the creature's life by abandoning him and leaving him to learn everything by himself. It's only right for Victor to make it up to him. Victor has also been threatened by the creature, so he almost doesn't have a choice if he wants to keep his loved ones safe.

2025-10-15 14:48:03 UTC

Victor's response to the creature's request should be compliance. Now knowing what the creature might do and what havoc he might create if Victor were to say no, should tell Victor that creating the creature's "Eve" might cause the least amount of destruction and death.

2025-10-15 14:48:18 UTC

I think that Victor should listen to the creature and create another person so at least the creature has someone he can talk too and he doesn't feel alone and resort to emotions or actions such as violence or anger. The creature doesn't have anyone to like him or be on his side which never leads to good things.

arodriguez27_28 — 2025-10-15 14:48:21 UTC

I think his response should be to make an "Eve" for the creature because it's the least he could do after what he had to experience for a year. He should try to make some conditions for them to live somewhere no one can find them, once the other creature is made. The creatures would treat each other with respect since they are the only ones of their kind, and they wouldn't need the approval of society when they have each other.

2025-10-15 14:48:22 UTC

I think that Victor should grant the creatures' request so that this other being could serve as a lifelong partner or acquaintance for the creature to have. He has already been treated so poorly that its the least Victor can do. He has tried and failed to blend into human society, being as he unique as he is, hence why giving him someone who shares in his flaws and thought on humanity would help him.

tsimone27 — 2025-10-15 14:49:09 UTC

btomasini27 — 2025-10-15 14:49:25 UTC

Victor should make the monster another of his kind. After all, it was initially his responsibility to be the monster's companion but instead he chose to abandon and neglect him for his own mental health reasons. For all the trauma he put the monster through, at least owes him a friend. Or to finally take a step into the monster's life and guide him into society. Victor being a mentor to him could convince at least a few of humankind to accept the monster for who he is.