In Chapter 11 The monster’s growing understanding of the significance and importance of otherness and family is linked to his lack of togetherness and relationship with his father and creator Frankenstein. This makes the audice feel sympathy for the monster as he is helpless and his unfortunate physical appearance makes people afraid of him; 'before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted' The fact that the monsters appearance frightens people, his helplessness is even heightened as people are unwilling to help him and only fear him. The cottagers’ devotion to each other underscores Victor’s total abandonment of the monster; ironically, observing their kindness actually causes the monster to suffer, as he realizes how truly alone, and how far from being the recipient of such kindness, he is. This lack of interaction with others, in addition to his namelessness, compounds the monster’s lack of social identity.
The theme of nature’s sublimity, of the connection between human moods and natural surroundings, resurfaces in the monster’s childlike reaction to springtime. Nature proves as important to the monster as it is to Victor: as the temperature rises and the winter ice melts, the monster takes comfort in a suddenly green and blooming world, glorying in nature’s creation when he cannot rejoice in his own. For a moment, he is able to forget his own ugliness and unnaturalness.
