Chapter 13

Spring transforms the Creature’s world as Safie arrives at the De Lacey cottage, bringing joy and renewed spirit. She and the family share music, and Felix begins instructing her, lessons the Creature secretly follows, learning language and history through Volney’s Ruins of Empires. As he grasps human society’s virtues and vices, he turns inward, realizing his own isolation, deformity, and lack of kin. Knowledge deepens his anguish even as his love and reverence for the cottagers grow.