Frankenstein Quote Analysis

Continuing his self-examination, the Creature questions whether he is inherently monstrous, destined to be rejected by all humanity.

The word 'blot' reduces him to a stain or mistake, something that mars an otherwise clean surface—the earth itself would be better without him. The parallelism of 'from which all men fled and whom all men disowned' drives home the totality of his rejection through repetition of 'all men,' leaving no possibility of a single exception. He poses this as a question, but the imagery has already convicted him; the rhetoric asks for confirmation of a verdict he has already accepted.

Support a thesis that the Creature's self-hatred is a direct result of social rejection, not an inherent trait—he calls himself a 'monster' only after adopting the language others would use against him, which suggests his violence is produced by exclusion rather than nature.