Before reading this novel, I had no idea the monster's name was not Frankenstein but indeed was the creator's name. Whenever I hear of the word Frankenstein I instantly think of Herman Munster from the sitcom, The Munsters. My family and I have seen all these episodes so I wasn't too familiar with the actual story of this monster and how it came about. In the novel by Mary Shelley, Victor describes the monster with, "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour of the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips (Chapter 5)." After hearing this description I pictured a scary and mean looking creation. In comparison, the monster from the sitcom is described as green in color and he's rather good-natured, a little clumsy and rather childish. So why do people change the characteristics of this monster?
People change the characteristics of this monster to fit whatever they want to believe. This monster is nameless so there is a sea of possibilities when talking about this monster. Whenever people see this monster, they scream and turn in the other direction. But we must realize that this monster didn't create himself. There was a person behind him which might just be considered a monster himself. His thoughts and crazed idea of knowing the secret of life takes over his life and creates this monster who destroys people he loves. Victor never realizes that he might actually be the monster and he turned into those characteristics of the monster. I take the side of the monster and feel bad for him. All he was looking for was someone who would understand him and be equally grotesque as it. Victor Frankenstein fails to carry out his promise in creating a mate for the monster and ultimately loses his own life over it and the lives of his family members. The ending of Mary Shelley's novel states that when the monster sees that his creator has died, he too can end his suffering and sails off to die on a piece of ice. This made me unusually sad even though we don't know if the monster ever died but leaves the readers to draw up their own ending.
People change the characteristics of this monster to fit whatever they want to believe. This monster is nameless so there is a sea of possibilities when talking about this monster. Whenever people see this monster, they scream and turn in the other direction. But we must realize that this monster didn't create himself. There was a person behind him which might just be considered a monster himself. His thoughts and crazed idea of knowing the secret of life takes over his life and creates this monster who destroys people he loves. Victor never realizes that he might actually be the monster and he turned into those characteristics of the monster. I take the side of the monster and feel bad for him. All he was looking for was someone who would understand him and be equally grotesque as it. Victor Frankenstein fails to carry out his promise in creating a mate for the monster and ultimately loses his own life over it and the lives of his family members. The ending of Mary Shelley's novel states that when the monster sees that his creator has died, he too can end his suffering and sails off to die on a piece of ice. This made me unusually sad even though we don't know if the monster ever died but leaves the readers to draw up their own ending.
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