Blog #20: Frankenstein

The end of my blog marathon is over. I am choosing the last and final scene of the book where Frankenstein is found caressing the body of his creator. Shedding tears for him, now that he is gone. Walton saw Victor as a noble, tragic figure, Victor saw himself as an overly proud and overly determined victim of fate, and Frankenstein saw his creator as a reckless creator, too self-centered to care for his creation. In all, I really enjoyed this book. This is my kind of book to read. Just the weird thought of it all happening is crazy. YAY 20!!

Blog #19: Frankenstein

Well well, I already knew that Frankenstein would totally go for Elizabeth, when he mentioned I will be seeing you on your wedding day. But that is the breaking point for Victor, because he finally finds it in him to go out to the public and tell them there is a monster on the loose. I keep finding a bunch of Hamlet allusions as well. Now that everyone in his family is gone, in Hamlets case betrayed him. Now Victor has taken over Frankenstein’s emotions and too becomes bloodthirsty and seeks revenge.

Blog #18: Frankenstein

God I’m Crazy but I, trying to finish these blogs before 12 tomorrow cause I wanna enjoy at least half of the niners game.

I was pretty sad and scared of the capability of Frankenstein. He has like an internal GPS just for Victor. Once he found out that Victor stopped trying to create the Bride than he went berserk. I can’t believe he was able to find his best and closest thing to a friend that Victor has and took his life. It seems like Frankenstein was ripped from his only companion he could have had, while Victor lost his only friend who was beginning to walk in his footsteps.

Blog #17: Frankenstein

I finished the book but I didn’t even out my blogs so I need to go back in to this book.

I forgot to talk about Paradise Lost in a couple of blogs ago. I was reminded when I heard my sister say that title and that is why I am here writing about it. The monster when finding the satchel filled with writing and later in the end of the book he is in confusion whether or not he is similar to Adam or Satin. He shows to be curious and executes his curiosity as Adam did, but takes more evil paths connecting him to Satin as well. I see him as more of an Adam though. He isn’t generating this evil by himself, but the position society is putting him in inflames his rage. Comparing him to Satin in mine eyes is to cruel for his sweet caring soul.

Blog #16: Frankenstein

WOOW. I can see both sides, but ultimately I can’t believe why Victor would make a female monster for the monster. Now since there will be two monsters in the mix I will now be calling the male monster Frankenstein, and the female will be Bride. J Ok getting back to my point, now there will be two monsters, which means more horror for him and more destruction for civilization. But Frankenstein’s promise to Victor on no causing havoc seems legitimate. I believe Victor feels sympathy for the monster for not being able to be with company, a feeling Victor knows very a well and a theme that brews in this book.

Blog #15: Frankenstein

I cant believe a book mad me feel as sad as this book made me. As the monster is venting to Victor, he does it in such a way that makes him look like less than dirt. I felt bad for him which is weird because he killed an innocent little boy, William, out of rage. Yet you can only feel for him, for being shunned my everyone. He has proven to be an intellectual by learning the language and even having a conversation with the blind man. And just because his appearance, he has nowhere to go. Without Felix in the cottage, The blind man, De Lacey, wouldn't have been alarmed at all.

Blog #14: Frankenstein

I’m dead tired after soccer I’m like physically unable to move, but just for Frankenstein I will do this blog.

So women as I have stated before are kinda belittled without power, kinda like in the Carpe Diem poems, and in Hamlet. But Safie, she turns the stereotype around by disobeying her father and tries to flee to Felix, her love. She portrays a strong character, probably the strongest in the book, although the very small role. Like her father and the monster, Safie is an outsider. She though is the only one that finds friends. I am taking a gander and guessing this may be a character that parallels Mary Shelly herself.

Blog #13: Frankenstein

Before i go to practice i shall blog really quick. I am very crunched this weekend with these bloggs but, oh well.

Felix’s willingness to risk everything for the sake of someone who has been unjustly punished, I think will give the monster hope that Victor will recognixze the hurtful injustice of abandoning him. What a comparison, Justine to the captured Muslim Turk, and Victor to Felix. Justine and the Turk were both sentenced to death off of a wrongful accusation. However, just as Felix’s bravery in helping Safie’s father escape stands in stark contrast to Victor’s shameful unwillingness to save Justine, so does Felix’s compassion for Safie underscore Victor’s cold hatred for the monster.

Blog #12: Frankenstein

The monster and Victor also share guilty feelings.  The monster feels bad for the poor family that is loosing everything because he is going around and taking their food.  He expresses his feelings, by going out and about and try to do as many good deeds as possible for that family.  I hope he confront them soon to make new friends hopefully, but sadly he is discouraged by his hideous features he finds in the reflection on the water.  Although the monster is learning a bunch of new things as he tells Victor, like the English language, and writing, by observing others the monster has learned to perform many human like abilities.  

Blog #11: Frankenstein

"Knowledge is permanent and irreversible..."  Once I heard that line I had to talk about it, and also I'm trying to get my blogs done before monday.  I thought a lot about that line as i stared at it for a while, than the thought of Victors knowledge on being able to create the monster hit me.  I see the monster as a creation of Victor's knowledge, and therefore being permanent and irreversible.  There is now no way to hide or run away from him anymore because he will always be there.  I just found that interesting.  Ok now time to go to school! 

Blog #10: Frankenstein

I find it really interesting how the characters are narrating through each other.  I don't know but it's like the monster speaks through Victor, which talks through Walton, which may be a mirror of the author herself.  And how the monster is equally fascinated by nature like his creator Victor.  They also share the same secretive trait.  Victor secludes himself from his family while, the monster runs away from society because of his ugliness and language barrier.  The monster is like a caveman in the 20th century. 

Blog #9: Frankenstein

What really popped out in chapters 9 and 10 were the instances of how the inspiring nature influences Victor feelings. He is all cherry and happy when out in the family home his father brought everyone, yet sad without its presence. It also can bring up reoccurring ideas, or thoughts of how depressed he I, “The rain depressed me; my old feelings recurred, and I was miserable.” Kind of like the monster, they both feel in there happy place when they are out in the landscape.

Blog #8: Frankenstein

I cannot believe that Victor let Justine confess for a crime she did not commit. The heavy burden of guilt now lies on his shoulders. If i were in Victors shoes, I don't know what i would do actually. When i sat down to think about that decision, i was mind bottled. The secrets will just keep building and building up until he finally tells someone. I wonder who he might tell first. If he told anyone at this time, they would flip out.

Blog #7: Frankenstein

I wonder how hard it could be for Victor to sell out his own creation to save Justine. When put into my own perspective if I spend numerous years working on creating something no one has ever done, it’s hard to throw it all away like that. But inside Victor’s head it doesn’t seem like he has that care for his creation. He left it out to roam the world for 2 years unattended. Women don't have a high role in this society, for no one believe Elizabeth's words, and luckily they are backed by Victors, but he still wont sell out the monster that he suspiciously say at the scene of the crime during a lightning storm.

Blog #6: Frankenstein

The letters from Elizabeth, come off very intense to the reader. I found it, that those same letters can be meant for Walton the initial narrator. How his sister feels for him. She wants him back but he is on his quest. Elizabeth also talks about Justine, the house keeper who is a very loyal woman. After the long while of Victor’s sickness he is still sickened by any chemical tools. He and Henry study together for a while delayed by the weather to journey back to Geneva.

Blog #5: Frankenstein

The theme of secrecy begins to peak out, from Victor’s shame and regret for having the thought of bringing the dead to life. Placing a wedge between his loved ones and himself, he walks in the alchemist’s shoes and works alone in solitude. He is also terrified of his own creation he spent year and years on. It was very odd how he imagined his love, Elizabeth, and his mothers dead body what trying to escape his problem he created.