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For which (if any) characters in Frankenstein do you feel empathy? Why?

Writer 1

I can't really say that I feel empathy for any of the characters.  But I do feel a little empathy for Frankenstein; when he was a young teenager.   Even though the family was a very loving and close family or so it seemed, around the time that he was becoming a teenager, that his father didn't take much interest in him.  It seemed that it was really what he wanted at the time.  I  recall the time when he was reading those books by those early scientist authors and his father kind of scolded him and told him that he shouldn't be reading those.  But as Frankenstein pointed out, that his father never told him why he shouldn't read them.  It seemed that he might have lacked a certain type of guidance from his father that he wanted.  I could be totally misreading the text and the story, but coming from a situation where I have seen young boys longing for their fathers' attention, it seemed to resonate with me in this particular part of the story.  After that he went off to school and became enamored with a certain professor who I can't say if he had his best interest at heart either.  I don't feel much empathy or any empathy for anyone else because I am finding it hard to relate to the book.  

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Writer 2

I felt empathy for Victor. I think he had the right intentions when he was in the process of creating the monster and then he could not love the monster the way he deserved. The monster killed who was important to Victor to have him feel empathy towards him. This did not truly work. When Victor went into the cemetery this is where my empathy rose for him. He states “The deep grief which this scene had at first excited quickly gave way to rage and despair. They were dead, and I lived; their murderer also lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary existence.” (Shelley, 208). This took to the monster saying in Victor’s ear “I am satisfied: miserable wretch! You have determined to live, and I am satisfied (Shelley, 209). I can understand the feeling of hurt and betrayal from Victor and the monster in his actions. Victor had a long standing sickness and it seems as if he thought that the monster was a burden. When you can feel with Victor that he has so much sadness and rage it’s hard not to feel sorry for him. He was not an outgoing person from the start and the people that he let in were no longer there.

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