Frankenstein

Growing up as a kid seeing all these things about Frankenstein everybody just assumes that Frankenstein is the big green monster zombie looking thing that looks pretty scary because of what the movies and TV has shown us, but in reality, in Frankenstein the book by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is the creator of the monster. The book starts out with Frankenstein chasing the monster in the cold snowy weather of the Arctic. There is where Walton ship gets stuck in the artic. He was planning on trying to find scientific discoveries. Walton finds Frankenstein and tries to help him recover from the extreme cold from the artic. And eventually, when Frankenstein got somewhat better he started to explain his story to Walton and that is where the story of Frankenstein officially begins.

            Frankenstein explains how he came from wealth, and he grew up in Geneva. He was really interested in science but he wanted nothing to do with the old science he wanted to learn stuff that wasn’t so outdated. So eventually he went to school. He really wanted to find out the secret that the world has. (Frankenstein said: “The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.” (49). Throughout his years in university he excels in science. And eventually, he finds out the secret on how to bring something back to life. And eventually, he did it. Frankenstein makes his best creation he brought someone back to life that someone is the monster. Frankenstein was so horrified by what he created that’s what he ended up calling it just a monster. He leaves the monster due to the fact that it was so repulsive. But in my opinion that’s where he made a really bad mistake. While being away in university Frankenstein received, a letter saying that his youngest brother William has been murdered. The plot twist here is that Justine was framed for the murder of William. The true murderer was the monster who framed her with a locket that William had. They executed Justine. Even though they took this to trial and everything. Elizabeth tried her best to defend Justine but it wasn’t enough and she was sentenced to death. Eventually, the monster gets a chance to speak to Frankenstein and explain what it had to go through when Frankenstein left him. The monster came into this world confused and knowing absolutely nothing and had to learn most of the basic human needs all on his own. When the monster starts to find people and then a village he starts to get attacked by them or sees them trying to run away from him. Eventually, the monster finds the De Lacey family and learns how to speak and understand certain things about life through Felix teaching this woman Safie who didn’t know how to speak their language. So, while Felix taught her Frankenstein also was learning in a distance though. Eventually, when the monster could read and understand things on his own he started to dislike Frankenstein a lot once he learned about him and how he just left him alone. The beast is too hideous to find anyone else to be his companion. The monster tries to talk to the father Mr. De lacey because he was blind. Making it easier for him to just talk to him so that way he can’t get scared but in the middle of explaining it to him, the family comes back and basically kicks him out. Eventually, the monster wanted to try again with them but he noticed that Felix was giving up their cottage. The monster said that he would feel good about destroying their cottage so eventually at night he set out just to do that so he would feel better. (The monster said “I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.”) (251).  Then he found out where his creator lived. That is when the monster started to head out to Geneva to find his creator. The monster finds William and once he learns that the boys last name is Frankenstein the monster kills the boy just to get some sort of payback for what his creator did to him. This is where I thought that the reason why the monster is like this is because of Frankenstein abandoning it. If he never had done that the monster would never have a reason to kill anyone. He would still scare people but at least Frankenstein would’ve been there for the monster. So even though the monster is doing all these horrible things if you think about it its really Frankenstein’s fault. One for bringing something back to life and two for just straight up abandoning the monster. Eventually, the monster gets to the point of his story of him wanted Frankenstein to make a monster of the opposite sex of him and that he and nor any other human will ever see them again because they will vanish to the wilds of South America. So, Frankenstein eventually does agree to do it and then tries to work on it but eventually, he gets sick of it and refuses to work on it any longer and then the monster gets furious and says that it will be with you on your wedding night. Frankenstein’s long childhood friend Clerval has also been murdered from the monster and because of this, he became very ill from all the heartbreak that the monster has been doing to him. He finally marries Elizabeth and he knows that the monster will be coming for him that night so he was waiting for him but it wasn’t him he was after it was his wife. The Monster killed Elizabeth. And then eventually the grief got to Frankenstein’s father and then he passes leaving him all alone. He tries to find the monster and dedicates his life and then it leads up to the end of Frankenstein’s story. Then after Frankenstein finished his story he died. Then the monster comes in and tells Frankenstein’s dead body that he will burn himself so his miseries will finally be extinct. Walton stopped his search for new scientific discoveries because after listening to Frankenstein’s story something just clicked where it wasn’t worth giving up your life for this.