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Exercise Two -- KEY:

Each of the relevant sentences from Exercise One deserves to be regarded as supplying an explicit step for the purposes of this exercise.  Once again, these are (2) - (10) and (12). However, not all of those steps are on the same level.  Here is a brief evaluation of the relevant sentences:

(12) -- This is the main conclusion of the argument.  The creature has captured Victor and forced him to listen to his story, which ends with several arguments designed to convince Victor to create a female as a companion for the creature. The argument in this paragraph is intended to establish that conclusion.

(2) - (5) -- These are reasons that establish the cause of the creature's malicious ways.  Steps (3) - (5) provide support for (2), and so serve as a supplementary argument for that step, which is a part of the main argument.

(6) -- A reason for the main conclusion.  The creature is vengeful and violent, but he would be a sweetheart if only someone would be nice to him.  As this is something Victor desperately wants, this is intended by the creature as a reason for his main conclusion.

(7) -- Another reason.  Problem is, the creature is so hideous that no human can be nice to him.  

(8) - (10) -- These go together to support another reason, viz., if the creature cannot "inspire love", then he will go medieval on people, and especially Victor.  The implication (to be discussed in the next exercise) is that unless Victor makes him a mate, the creature will make his life miserable.