"I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence f the whole human race." p. 121
There are many instances that motivation comes up in this story. The motivation behind Victor destroying the female creature was that he came to terms with how selfish he was being. He did not know that was in store for him or the creature. If he were to create another, he believed that, possibly, all hell would break loose. Deciding not to take his chances, he destroyed the second creature.
Because of this act, the first creature is overcome with rage, and most likely extreme disappointment and hurt that he will no longer have a partner, that he vows to kill everyone that Victor loves by saying that he will see him on his wedding night. That was the motivation behind the creature killing Henry as well as Elizabeth.
This was not the first time that the creature had given into his anger and frustration. After he found the journal in his lab coat pocket and after he had been rejected by his "protectors", the creature decides that he is going to hurt the man that put this horrible life into his hands. That is what motivates him to kill William. He believes that William is Victor's son when he hears the boy say "Frankenstein", and ends up strangling the boy to death. All in all, motivation plays a big role in the novel and understanding why characters did the things that they did.
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