The monster commissions Victor to create him a female companion of equal stature and hideousness. ... Monster because he feels obligated as his maker to bestow a “portion of happiness” upon his creation (page 157). He is almost complete when he has a revelation. The first time I read it I thought Victor was noble.
The imperialists were all for it, thinking that it would help with the American market and the depressed economy from the Panic of 1893. The anti-imperialists argued that it went against our American democracy and was harmful to the territories we were trying to acquire.
