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I agree 100% with Christopher Schildt. He says that "Mary Shelley was not writing about the evils of science and progress, but suffering and loss and pain, the feeling of being ostracized- that I think she knew very well. And I think people have always felt that, and so the can feel for the monster too... there's a bit of the creature in all of us."Mary Shelley lived a very unfortunate life. Death was something that she was very familiar with. It surrounded her. She expressed this through her tale of Frankenstein.

Throughout the novel Mary Shelley shows the reader how to feel sympathy towards Victor as well as the creature. Everyone has their own opinions on which character they feel the most sympathy towards, I personally feel the most sympathetic towards Victor. The creature killed everyone that Victor loved only because Victor would not risk his own life again to make the creature a mate. And on top of that the creature goes out and kills Victor anyways. Victor did not deserve that. As you can see, Mary Shelley made it very easy for the readers of her novel to feel sympathetic towards her characters.