An excerpt from Chapter 17. The monster speaks first, and Victor Frankenstein speaks second.
The Creature: "You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede."
The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers, and, as he said this, I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me.
Victor Frankenstein: "I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world! Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent."
What is the conflict in this passage?(1 point)
a. The monster demands Victor Frankenstein’s daughter come live with him in the woods, and Victor Frankenstein is horrified.
b. Victor Frankenstein orders the monster to find a wife, and the monster says he doesn’t know how.
c. The monster wants Victor Frankenstein to create a female monster, and Victor Frankenstein declines.
d. The monster demands affection from Victor Frankenstein, and Victor Frankenstein insults him instead.