Katy Misel
I have finished reading Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly. I had left off on
my last blog post Frankenstein the monster was feeling bad for himself, because he
was different. He is having deep international conflict about his creation. So
the monster and Victor make a deal. If Victor creates another one of his kind
he will leave Victor alone. So Victor gets to work make a female monster for
his first creation. But one night when he is working he begins to have thoughts
about the monster terrorizing people together, and perhaps have babies and
reproducing a whole race of devils. So in this thinking he destroys the
progress of the creature he is making. Frankenstein the monster sees this and
vows to be at the wedding of Victor and Elizabeth. Victor then collects his
things and the body from the laboratory and throws them out to sea whaile on his canoe.
The next morning when he is rowing back into the town, angery towns' people are there
to greet him, and he is under suspicion for a murder the previous night. When
the police (not really police) show Victor the body to see if her reacts to it, he discovers it is
his old friend Henry Clerval, who helped him though his illness in the beginning
of the book. Upon seeing his friend’s body he knows the monster (his creation)
has killed him, and Victor falls into a two month sickness. When he awakens he
is still in prison, but his father is there. They go through the trial and his
found not guilty. When Victor and his father arrive home they begin to plan the
wedding. But Victor is wary about the monsters promise to be there on his
wedding night. But Victor is ready for the battle to take place. When the day finally arrives and Victor and Elizabeth are in their
honey moon vaction house. Victor takes a walk around the home one last time after
telling Elizabeth to go to bed. All of a sudden he hears a scream, and realizes
the monster wasn't after him he was after Elizabeth. Victor gets back before it’s
too late. Elizabeth is dead. Victor then returns home to tell his father the devastating
news. Two days after hearing the news, Victors dad dies. Victor then devotes his
life to finding and destroying the monster. After no luck of finding the
monster, he runs into Walton (at the beginning of the novel this is where the
letters came from). He then tells Walton his story and begs him to continue his
search. After Victor dies on the ship Walton hears noise in the room that
Victors dead body is being kept. When he goes to investigate he is startled to find
the monster who is crying of the dead body of his creator. He proceeds to tell
Walton how he never wanted to hurt anybody. He then says how he now wishes to
die. He then walks off into the darkness. I ended up really enjoying this book.
It did start of very slow and that's why I think I had a hard time getting
going. But the book had action and romance. It had a lot of feeling that put
you right into the action book. I defiantly think the main theme was that even though
you can be privileged and have wealth you still have to do what's right in life
and follow the rules, or bad things will happen. I definitely think Victor was
the best character. He had kind of grown and changed, but I don’t really think
for the better. "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay. To mould me Man,
did I solicit thee. From darkness to promote me?" In this quote Frankenstein
the Monster is trying to say that he did not ask to be created. He did not want
to be man. And when Victor did create him why leave him in the dark from all other
things. Kind of like, you wanted me to be hear so why did you desert me. Victor
is all the monster ever knew. And even then Victor didn't want him. I have no
questions about my book. It's amazing how over the years this book is still
popular and can even catch the attention of readers today.
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