Frankenstein 3

At the beginning of Frankenstein not too many bad things happen. Everything goes rather smoothly with no major catastrophes. Then Victor creates his monster, Frankenstein. After the creation, everything seemed go downhill and one bad thing after another happened.
Victor realized what he had done when the monster finally came to life. Once his creation came to life Victor said, "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe." (Shelley 34). From the the beginning Victor reecognized his creatoin as a catastrophe even though the real catastrophes had yet to occur. It did not take long for Victor to become afraid of his creation. The night his creation came to life he attempted to sleep but could not. He woke up to the monster standing over with, "his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me" said Victor about the monster. (Shelley 35). Victor was so terrified he left his apartment for the whole night.
This was just the being of the catastrophes that would haunt Victor. One might say that Victor brought this upon himself, which seems to be apparent. The monster that he obsessed over for so long to create ironically becomes his worst nightmare, taking the lives of the ones he loves, such as his friend Henry.

Frankenstein song!

I found a song the EVERYONE needs to listen to! its kinda of inappropriate so dont listen to it if arent a vulger person.
go to youtube. type in Frankenstein singing critic.
(its a little british guy singing with a guitar). It is so funny. I chose this song becuase it completely sums up everything about frankenstein and what might be going through his head.

Dr. Frankenstein

While reading this novel, Victor, besides being the main character, stood out to me the most. His whole life changed when he created the monster and didnt want to fess up to take the blame for it's actions. In the beginning of Victors studies he shut himself off from the social world as well as his family which is what he did at the end of the story too. Alot of people were felling sorry for the monster, but to me, I personally felt sorry for Frankstein because he simply had a passion for life, creating life, and the science behind life. He didnt know that creating life within his monster would have a negative outlook. How was he supposed to know that creating the monster would result in the death of his brother, best friend, and wife, as well as contribute to two other deaths? In science there are consequences to everything but at first no scientist ways out the pro's and con's of what COULD happen, all they are processing is how famous a discover will make them.

Paradise Lost

I found it interesting that Frankenstein’s creature, while observing a family, obtained such a thorough education. He learned the native language, as well as history, government, religion, geography, and the list goes on. I understand that this was necessary for the sake of the story, but I started wondering about the content of the texts that he read. He acquired a copy of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s LIves, and the Sorrows of Werther. He read all these books as if they were true history, and when considering the affect they had on him, one must take that fact into consideration.
I randomly picked one of these titles to get a better understanding of what these books were about. Paradise Lost was the winner of my inquiry. It’s basically a narrative of Adam and Eve’s creation, and of how they were exiled from the Garden of Eden. It includes the story of Lucifer, or Satan, who declared war on god and was sent to hell.

Frankenstein

In all honesty, procrastination has found me a little too willing to employ it in the last few weeks. I have now snapped out of that cycle, but only after I realized that I hadn’t the foggiest clue as to what theme I would choose to write about, and my topic proposal was due the next day. I made up my mind on three different themes, and then changed it again before finally coming to a decision to write about the “Nature vs. Nurture” theme. Finding something that I could write about wasn’t the problem. I could talk all day about obsession, guilt, isolation, loneliness etc. The hard part is actually finding sources that I could use to draw information from for these same themes.
I did find a couple of good sources for my selected theme. One that most closely and plainly reflects my views on the subject is an article by Percy Bysshe Shelly titled, “On Frankenstein”. He begins the article inviting the reader to ponder what might have been the thoughts of the author, to produce such a work of peculiar nature. He then goes on to describe what I would call the tempo of the book. “We are led breathless with suspense and sympathy, and the heaping up of incident on incident, and the working of passion out of passion. We cry “hold, hold! Enough!”- but there is yet something to come; and, like the victim whose history it relates we think we can bear no more, and yet more is to be born.”(Shelley)
Percy Shelly explains that the direct moral of the book is “Treat a person ill, and he will become wicked.”(Shelly) I’m tempted to finish this posting with quotes from this section of the article because they so blatantly reiterate the theme of Nature vs. Nurture as it applies to the Monster. He wasn’t a wicked creature from the day of his creation, but he did not experience a single interaction with a human that didn’t have a negative result.

Frankenstein

Something caught my attention that I hadn't really thought about until we got our assignment sheet for our annotated bibliography and paper proposal. As I was reading through the list of topics we were provided with, I saw that one of them was about passion versus reason. I hadn't thought about it at all before I read it, but that is exactly what Frankenstein did when he created this monster, put passion before reason. He was very passionate about science after reading the works of Cornelius Agrippa, and even after his father told him he shouldn't be reading it, he continued to be consumed by it. His father said, "Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash" (Shelley 21). This seemed to have made it really strike home for Frankenstein and he continued to read other works, including those of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. He learned all he could and then used this passion to use science to create his monster. He created this monster without even thinking about what the possible outcomes could be and he ended up hurting those he was closest to.

song for frankenstien