Showing posts with label Frankenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frankenstein. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Frankenstein

The beginning of the book Frankenstein was kind of confusing and hard to follow. The letters Robert was writing to his sister Margaret had me thinking is was going to be this gay sailor writing his siter throughout the whole book. Robert was sad one moment and happy the next, I wasn't really sure if he wanted to be on the voyage or not. He saved a mans life and that man ended becoming something Robert loned for, a friend. Victor wanted to create something like himself. "I should attempt the creation of a human being like mysellf or one more simplier organization.(Shelley 31) So he created the monster, but he didn't know that the monster would act as he did. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I endeavored to form?(Shelley 34) The monster haunted Victor and his family. Victor thought he would fight the monster but he didn't, the monster killed his wife Elizabeth on their wedding day. By the end of the story everyone ended up dieing. I think the creation of that monster was very crazy, it took a intelligent man to create it though. The story was interesting after i got past the letters Robert was writing his sister Margaret.

Frankenstein

The beginning of the book Frankenstein is interesting.My mind really wondered while reading these letters Robert wrote to his sister margaret. Is Robert gay? Why didn't his sister ever write him back? I think its very interesting the way they find the man . They were stuck between ice and when the ice freed the ship, they saw that they were closer to land than they thought. Robert always told his sister that he wanted, well the one thing he was missing was a friend. After the man he found was in the ship a while he begin to think of the man ass his friend. Robert didn't think he would find a friend. " I said in one of my letters my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean, yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart."(Shelley 15) After reading that it has me thinking maybe just maybe Robert is not gay but lonely.