Up to the point we have read in the novel, I've noticed that Victor fails to notice the humanity of his creation. When creating the monster, he took little thought of the outcome of the human nature laws. We are still being forced to call him "monster" for lack of a better name. However, the creation is in many ways not a monster, but human. We can assume that the creation possesses some human DNA, because he is constructed of human parts. Although a body does not necessarily make a human. A body is a body, but nothing else until human factors are placed. Language is one the most important factors to making a human. Animals do have the ability to communicate, but only humans have developed oral communication. The creation does have the ability to create thoughts, and speak them, which is proving his human characteristic. If it wasn't for his appearance scaring away potential socialization, he would be able to communicate with other humans.
Thought is the next biggest attribute to human. The ability to think, form intelligent ideas and problem solving are crucial to humanity. The creation is able to think through problems and solve them. He understands the ideas of justice, alienation, and rights. Although his rationality fails at times, and he does not choose the right way to solve things, his thought process allows him to produce human ideas.
Lastly, I believe our emotions make humanity. The creation feels sadness for the cottagers, and also excitement for the cottagers when Safie comes home. The creation expresses the emotion he is feeling to Victor about his loneliness, and the pain he his suffering.
We can gather from the novel that a body is not a human nor a monster. A human is only something that produces human capabilities. And from the beginning, Victor judges the creation as a monster, even though it is Victors own fault. The human processes the creation does allow us understand the essentials it takes to being a human, and that the monster should not have been automatically given the name monster when in several ways he is a human.
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