Wednesday, May 13, 2009

chapter 21-23

To add more pain to Victor, the monster takes his wife on their day of marriage. He feels so guilty that he tells his father what has happened. When he doesn't believe him, he vows to spend the rest of his life to destroying it.

chapters 17- 20

This starts off with the monster wanting a female companion, letting us see he just wants to have someone the same as him and he is tried of being alone. Victor promises, but later sees this could have more negatives than positives. What if they want to reproduce? What if they become seen by other people? So Victor destroys all his work and the monster vows he will pay. When he arrives back to his room from being alone, again, on the boat, he is suspected of the murder of Henry. These chapters make us see more alone time for Victor. He has spent nearly all of his time after seeing the monster alone. This could mean that he is missing his mother because he has become aware of it again by seeing the monster, he is feeling regret for making Justine die for his mistake, or he is reminded of the horrible creature he brought into the world. He won't even marry Elizabeth until this is over, saying he won't even give in for love.

chapters 14-16

The monster is constantly learning new things from the family he is eavesdropping on. He is learning about the history of their family more in depth now. After he finds the book, Paradise Lost, I think the monster is thinking that most of the world is going through what he is, thinking everyone is alone and unwanted. When he finds Victors notes it really hits him he was a mistake and disgusting. After the rejection by two people, the family and the drowning girl, the monster turns against humans and ends up strangling William, Victors brother. We can see that he has a lot of rage toward his creator, and does not feel any remorse for his killing.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

chapter 11-13

Frankenstein is like a new born child. He has to learn everything from scratch, like how to find food, keep himself warm, and what people are like. He discovers a family in the room next to his and watches them live their life. He soon becomes very attached to the family, and after realizing that his food stealing has hurt them he stops and starts bringing them wood. He then learns how to speak by following their words and actions. This creature is constantly reminding me of the elephant man, how no one would look at him but if you had gotten to know him he was very sweet and caring of others.

chapter 10

In this chapter I found the end very interesting. I did not know the creature was able to speak or was that powerful. I can't wait to read more about his life.

Chapter 9

Seeing that Victor feels guilty but is now moving on from thinking of suicide make me feel like he is really starting to recover and becoming more like the person he used to be.

Chapter 7-8

I think seeing that Victor thinks his monster, Frankenstein killed his brother, William will come into play later in the story. When Justine confesses I couldn't tell if she had actually done it and was covering it up or she just wanted it to end. But over all we can now see that Victor's creation is anything but good.