Frankenstien--Post 2!!!!

Molly Walsh

April 17, 2012

Post 2 for Frankenstein

“To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.”

            When Victor Frankenstein first starts to become addicted to learning and experimenting about life, he is on a slippery slope that easily consumed him.  He forgot about his family, friends, and everyone who cared about him.  Instead of enjoying life and living it to the fullest with the people who cared about him, he became obsessed with the origins of life and how to manufacture it.  It’s weird that in his search for the secret of life, he wasn’t really living. 

            Eventually, after much experimenting, he got his wish and found the secret of life and made his creature, the monster.  His reaction though was of panic and repulsiveness.  He could tell that he made a mistake creating the monster and it wasn’t how he imagined or hoped it to be.  He thought the monster was terrible, ugly and horrifying.  “Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment.”  It just goes to show that people cannot mess around with life because it’s not necessarily going to turn out as planned and once it exists, what’s done is done and can’t be controlled.

            It’s sad and tragic to me that the Monster never really had a chance.  He was condemned from the beginning and pegged as an evil creature, even though no one knew who he really was.  He was born with the mind and innocence of a child, only to become jaded and hardened to the bitter world that rejected him.  The monster was weighed on the superficial qualities and I don’t think very many people gave him the chance to reveal what was below the surface.  This creature wasn’t asked to be created, but he was and there was no way back from that.  When he tried to fit into the world that didn’t want him, bad things happened.  The monster had no one to console his loneliness, especially after Victor destroyed the Monster’s future female counterpart so he resorted to violence to exact revenge and shows Victor the same kind of pain he felt.  So, sadly, he ended up fulfilling the vision that people had of him.