Frankenstein

So I was reading Frankenstein for school. Actually, I was Spark-noting it (if you are American you probably know what SparkNotes is - best website ever). So anyway, I was reading the summary and the analysis and I felt really interested about the story.

It's about this crazy scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who loves nature and who wants to discover all of the misteries about life and death. While he is in college, he decides to create a creature, but it doesn't come up the way he expected it to be. This thing looks like a monster and it is really ugly, so Victor decides to leave it there and walk away. He practically abandons the creature because it is just different from him. The poor creature is left alone, and as time goes by he learns to speak and read, and he starts to understand the world and the society where he lives. People run away from him, and nobody likes him because he is just different. Nobody takes the time to actually get to know him. He tries to make friends, but nobody is brave enough to look beyond his face and discover that he is actually a really good person. This makes him hate everybody, specially Victor, who created him and left him alone. He compares himself to some Bible characters, such as God, Adam, and specially Satan. He starts killing everybody related to his creator, and when he finally meets him, he asks him to create a female version of himself, just as ugly as him, so they can run away to South America and live together in the jungle where nobody else is gonna judge them. Victor accepts to do that, but then he regrets it because he realizes that they can have kids and create a whole new "specie of evil" in the world. The creature gets really upset and ends up killing everybody in Victor's life until there's nobody else. At the same time, Victor's guilt for creating such a thing and for letting it kill everybody, makes him weaker and crazier, so at the end he is left alone just like he left the creature he created. He starts feeling the same way the monster felt, and he starts looking for it to take revenge. At the end of the book, he ends up being the monster he thought the creature was.

My point is how society just leaves people alone because they are different. Victor was the one that made the mistake and he just didn't take responsibility for it. The only thing that the creature wanted was to have a friend, to have someone that cared about him, and someone to lean on whenever he needed a hand, just like Victor had his friends, Elizabeth and Henry.

I think we can all feel a little bit related to the creature. Sometimes we are left alone, sometimes we are judged by society, sometimes we just want to have a friend, and nobody is willing to let us in. We can be the most popular kid in school, and we are still gonna be judged, we are still gonna be alone sometimes.

What I like the most about this book is the title. I mean, when we think of the word "Frankenstein" we think of a monster who wants to kill everybody, and we instantly believe that Frankenstein is that monster. In reality, Frankenstein is the creator, Victor, that's his name. He is the real monster. He is the first one to judge the creature, the first one to leave him alone...

So from now on, don't try to be a monster like Frankenstein... just accept that people can be different. We are all different...

If you wanna watch a 8 minute video about the story go here:

http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/video/frankenstein