By murdering William, the Creature comes to realize his own potential for destruction and injury. Until this point, other people have treated the Creature cruelly: Frankenstein abandoned him at birth, and the family in the cottage threatened him as well. The Creature felt powerless. He assumed he could make William love him since he was a child and children are believed to be less judgmental than adults. However, this does not work.
It is at this point that the Creature becomes the monster the other characters assumed he was due to his frightful appearance. Embittered, lonely, and in pain, he decides to inspire fear rather than love, since through fear he might be able to get Frankenstein to fulfill his greatest wish: to make him a mate. When Frankenstein refuses to do this, the Creature continues to heap agony upon his creator.
The creature has been spurned by so many people, and his hopes were so high before they were crushed by judgmental humanity. When he sees William, a young boy, he thinks that perhaps he can kidnap the child and educate the boy to be his friend (since no one else can abide even so much as his presence). William struggles against him, insulting him, and threatening to unleash his father on the creature. When the creature finds out that William is a Frankenstein, from the same family as his own creator, the creature "grasped [William's] throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at [the creature's] feet." In this moment, the creature learns that, like his creator and other human beings, he "too can create desolation." He comes to understand that he is as capable of creating destruction and pain as he is capable of giving comfort. The creature realizes that he can injure his creator, just as he feels that his creator has injured him.
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