In this amazing novel, the developmental stages that the being experiences during its life render the reader pensive about possible analogies with the life of human being.
The biological development of the creature in the beginning of his life partly resembles this stage in the human being. "A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time," the fiend said. Indeed, the neuroscience studies [1] show our brain in the birth does not distinguish between senses, while through the exposure to the sensory inputs, it develops to allocate separate areas to the different senses; it is when the monster says, "I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses." Also, the language development of the fiend owes to the statistical cues of the language, similarly suggested as the critical factor in human language learning [2], though in the novel depicted far more fantastically in speed.
How the personality of the fiend is shaped in the novel is the story of us, human beings. The creature felt arduous, gay, delightful, like a human child, until it learns about the importance of other factors in life, and it desperately thinks, "I knew I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.", then concludes, "sorrow only increased with knowledge.", indeed. Further, the immediate reactions of the humans to the being, "Hideous monster! Ugly wretch!", reminds us about injustices that prevail in our societies, ingratitude that makes the heart of a man full of "hatred and vengeance to all mankind."
How meticulously Mary Shelley depicts the life of the being, as of a human being, might confirm the idea of her pregnancy during the writing of this novel.
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