which is to say, how much we have likewise learned from reading the novel. Confronting
the Creature with a stern morality but also with compassion, Walton attributes fundamental
human characteristics to him, insisting on his humanity and thus on his obligations
as a human being. The Creature responds in kind, enumerating even more complexly shaded
human attributes as fundamental to his constitution. This process of dynamic self-examination
through human interchange may also be seen as a new element in his experience, eliciting
a sense of self not as an alienated, and therefore unique and unaccountable, being,
but as a sharer in emotions and social duties common to the human race.