Frankenstein

What do the following words from the excerpt indicate about the creature's interaction with humans? But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.

Read this excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:

Shall I respect man, when he condemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and, instead of injury, I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance. But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.

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Because he inspires fear, the people the creature interacts with hurthim in turn..... both physically and emotionally. Thus, he vows revenge for the wrongs done him out of ignorance and fear.