Molly Walsh
April 17, 2012
Post 2 for comparing and contrasting the two books
As I was reading To Kill a Mockingbird and Frankenstein, a few questions have been brought to mind. Were some of the characters really evil, or did society help shape and distort the way there were? If you have the opportunity to do something that could be either potentially amazing or disastrous, should you do it or just leave it alone?
People in Frankenstein always had it out for the Monster for some reason. There wasn’t any person who gave him a chance to show his true self without judgment and hatred streaming towards him. He had moments when his goodness shined through and when the reader could see that the Monster wasn’t completely thoughtless and evil. Actually, at first the only idea that we get he’s legitimately evil is because Victor and the townspeople think he is. They have no evidence about it, though. They make the leap of thought that if he is weird on the surface level then he must be a creeper below. I wonder how the Monster would have turned out if society accepted him, if he found a friend or someone to relate to him. I would like to think that things would have turned out differently and that he wouldn’t have murdered Victor’s family members. I also wonder what would have happened if Victor ended up accepting the Monster and finding him someone to relate to instead of having the weird, violent, volatile relationship they had in the book.
As I was reading Frankenstein I was thinking if it would have been a good choice for Victor to just leave his experimenting alone. His experiments and creation of the Monster brought so much pain and anguish. I like to speculate how Victor’s life would have been different if he didn’t create his monster. I realized that messing with some things, like life, can be a bad idea and that there are consequences, either good or bad, to every choice that we make.
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