For Shelley this may have been an expression of her own anxieties regarding both motherhood and the fear of giving birth, but feeling no connection to the child; fears he often discussed. Critics often speculate that the experience of living in post-French Revolution Britain may have had an impact on Shelley's writing and the moral themes presented in Frankenstein. Fears common to many of Shelley's British middle-class companions of this period often included the use of violence, revenge, and revolution. The Creature may be determined to have similarities to a proletariat, who although potentially having good intentions, is unable to execute them effectively and therefore, once it surpasses the "creator" or upper class in power, enacts violence and revenge. Shelley seems to present this path as undesirable since, in the novel's closing chapters, the Creature appears to feel great remorse for the murders he has committed, and upon Frankenstein's death he feels so guilt-ridden that he takes his.