The cuddly bear within!

So if you’re a senior who is going to stop trying at all work after the APs, say “I.” I think the monster got kind of soft towards the end of the story. This blog is trying to get at the fact that there is a little monster on the outside of all of us but on the inside we all have a cuddly bear or what have you. Personally mine is a squirrel but that’s a story for another day. In Chapter 24 Walton hears a strange sound coming from his cabin on the ship, only to find the hideous monster weeping over the body of his creator, who he hated. So why now would the monster be doing this, well it’s because that was his only friend. As sad as it sounds the monster was hated by his “parent” but the monster still felt connected and therefore grieved at his passing away. So this establishes the fact that society never truly knows how a person is on the inside until it gets the chance to see that person when “the chips are down” so to say. We truly get to know a person’s characteristics when they are in a bad or just hard situation because it’s in these situations where we show our true colors. This stands true for the monster because underneath that green ugliness, he too had a cuddly bear within. Now go out and find that cuddly bear in you!

Alastair loves his woman, yes its pertinent!

I honestly have been sitting here staring at the screen blankly for about 30 minutes… yea I got nothing… nothing but women, or a woman, on my mind. This reminds me though that Victor and the monster have that in common with me! Both Victor and the monster had a special bond with women that each sought to fill the voids in their lives. Victor often said that Elizabeth was is only joy, in this same manner the monster says it is his soul right to a female companion. The monster even uses his own “desperate loneliness” to guilt victor, as his creator, into creating the monster a bride. Both of these men view women as peace and happiness, the kind of joy that no other source may bring them. Equally binding, each man has his struggles with society that he can set aside when he is with a female companion, except the monster never gets his chance to. So needless to say, my love for Alexis is linked to the fact that I absolutely despise school this close to the end of the year and I need relief from stress, but mostly just love...don't judge me!

Frankenstein and ground squirrels, UNITE

So once again I feel the need to introduce my blog with a random topic… how about ground squirrels? Did you know that they can chew rattlesnake skin to create a paste and then rub it one themselves to deter rattlesnakes from attacking!!! Another motif I noticed in the novel was that of abortion. At one point in the novel the monster says “I the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” This proves first that the monster is an intelligent being but also has feelings. Fancy that, a monster with feelings. The monster has this understanding that he has been left alone by his master and, although he hates him, still longs for his companionship but feels like he is an abortion. The monster knows he is ugly and that society shall never accept him, thus linked with his master’s hatred, he makes the connection he is not wanted. This sorrow turns into anger and he transforms into the monster, which I think could have been avoid if Victor would not have been a fool and used his noodle.

Frankenstein, why can't we all just love?

I would like to start with a random question that has no pertinence to this blog, would you rather be known as the school's "Bad bully who loves Dora the Explorer" or be known in school as "The nerdy freak"? Ok so personally I feel that everything these days is up to society. I mean yes one can go off and deviate from the norm but how cool does that really make you? In the monster’s instance society did not accept him and prejudged him. Not one person truly took the time to get to know how the monster was on the inside; instead even after he saved a girl from drowning, her boyfriend shot him. It is because of this blatant hostility from the society that the monster was born into that he was turned evil.

Frankenstein, super freak!!!!

So I was actually paying attention to some of the discussions in class today and came up with this. Nothing really ties together or makes too much sense in the book, for example the monster being eight-foot-tall but having limbs from humans. Now I might be going out on a limb here, that was a pun get it, but it does not make too much sense for normal human limbs to make a creation reach eight feet. I also noticed that in the novel Victor talks about the skin almost not covering the entire body, this puzzled me. Unless the limbs were stripped of skin for some reason there should most definitely be enough skin to reach around the body comfortably correct? Finally, why did Victor not just take an entire corpse from the grave or mortuary, why hack them up…freak.

Frankenstein, super freak!!!!

So I was actually paying attention to some of the discussions in class today and came up with this. Nothing really ties together or makes too much sense in the book, for example the monster being eight-foot-tall but having limbs from humans. Now I might be going out on a limb here, that was a pun get it, but it does not make too much sense for normal human limbs to make a creation reach eight feet. I also noticed that in the novel Victor talks about the skin almost not covering the entire body, this puzzled me. Unless the limbs were stripped of skin for some reason there should most definitely be enough skin to reach around the body comfortably correct? Finally, why did Victor not just take an entire corpse from the grave or mortuary, why hack them up…freak.

Frankenstein 5

Personification – With the use of personification or the giving of inanimate objects a human form or characteristics, Shelley uses personification to give life to nature just as Victor gives life to the monster. The giving of a human form to an inanimate object also ties to the greater theme in Frankenstein of creating life and playing the role of God. The quote “…partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery.” (Shelley, 25) reinforces the bonds between man and nature. The strong affiliation that Shelley feels toward nature can be attributed to the amount of time she spent outside as a child. Shelley was forced to give human characteristics to nature due to the lack of human companionship as a child. Just as Shelley sought this human companionship in nature, the monster also looked for camaraderie from those who would not judge him.