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Last but not least, Victor dies.

"Alas, Do you dream?" said the daemon. I do not understand what the monster meant by this. The fact that he was so torn apart by his murdering of Victor makes me sad... Why did he have to kill his creator? I wonder if we a humans would kill God if we were able to. But in the end what would we gain? The monster knows he will eventually die, and I wonder if the book could only end this way. It's like when Ms.Sobrero said Hamlet could only end the way it did, I wonder why this book could only end the way it did. Maybe I saw too much religious aspects to it, but it made it easier for me to understand. Maybe it has nothing to do with god, and just human nature itself. We are all monsters.

So what did I gain from this book. It was AWESOME. I actually think I liked it better than dracula.............. I think it's that I could relate to this book, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it was to read. So what is the monster, evil ? or a victim of life's evils? I think he's just human.

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I always thought Frankenstein ended with a village of people running to kill him because he was a monster but was innocent. In reality he was innocent, but became tainted. In a way I sympathize Frankenstein because it was not his fault he was made.. I wonder if God feels guilty for making us? I mean I'm not too religious, but I just sense a lot of religious ties to this book. "My reign is not over," is what the monster said. It's so sad, it's like seeing a family broken apart. I could tell the had a father and son bond, but it was never meant to be..

Look who died,

1. William
2. Justine
   
3. Henry
4. Elizabeth

So Victor seeks revenge and even tells Walton who I forgot was, to seek revenge if he himself ever dies.

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I think Victor got what was coming. He created this monster and it killed his best friend. Maybe it's like God regretting that he made man kind, because mankind betrayed him. But... i don't know for sure.. Why hasn't he told anyone yet of his monster? And where is he hiding? Seriously man, like If I knew some beast might possibly kill me or my wife I'd let everyone know. It reminds me of spy kids when the creepy guy was hiding away from these creatures he made because they thought they were going to hurt him.

Frankenstein 17

Again..... Frankenstein proved me wrong. Instead of creating his bride, he destroys her! I don't get him, it's like he's so stuck between whats wrong and right................Wow.. that just sparked me another religious thing. Honestly I have no idea if this book has any religious ties to it, but it reminds me of like a person debating to sin or to live a holy live, and it's so hard to make the right idea. Sometimes that's how I feel. Maybe I should go make some monsters.

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I wonder what drives Victor to do what he does. Maybe the death of his mother really just affected him, and the fascination of life and death is what makes him do what he does. It's like he finally has the ability to control something in his life, the ability to control life. It's like why anorexics don't eat, because that's the only thing they can control, eating. He feels all this guilt but still he allies with the monster, and even goes off to create him a bride! I feel the monster is more sane than he is.

Frankenstein 15

Almost there!

So, I find it interesting that the monster wanted a mate due to his loneliness. It's like Victor always being so lonely. I think the drive that made the monster kill due to loneliness, is like the impulsive drive Victor gained when his mother died, also tied to loneliness. Again, so why do people call the monster Frankenstein, if Frankenstein is the creator. This is where the Bride-of-Frankenstein spinsoff, but ... Frankenstein is the creator?

Frankenstein 14

I wonder how the scene went between Frankenstein and the blind man. Like when Felix caught him, was he like "Wait wait, I'm innocent." But then again, If I saw a monster talking to one of my relatives, I would be like WTFUDGE!? and freak out.... moral of the story? Don't judge a book by it's cover. Now another religious tie ? Okay so the monster kills William, who is part of the Frankenstein family. And since the monster is almost like a part of the family, it is kinda like Cain and Abel, the first sin in the bible.

I don't think the monster is a monster, I think he's just human.

Frankenstein 13

I wonder what relief Frankenstein felt when he read Paradise lost. He begins to ask questions such as "Who am I? Why am I here?" Which again reminds me of the whole religious tie I mentioned earlier. I wonder if this book has to do with human nature and our purpose? But I don't know why Mary chose to make him a monster and how that ties with humans. Unlike Adam and Eve, the monster hated his creator. Maybe it has to do with why God created people with sin?

Frankenstein 12

I'm not going to lie, I don't really know the symbolism to the story of Safie. I'm sure it has to do something between Frankenstein and the monster, but I don't quite get it. Does it have to do with Frankenstein really adoring his creation, but that he could not be with him since it is a monster?

I think it also has to do with the love that the monster so eagerly wants. He even questioned "But where were my friends and my relations?"

Frankenstein 11

I forgot the word that Sobrero said which is like when an author writes something random to make the story work. I think that's what Mary did for this part of Frankenstein. There just so happened to be some foreign lady who wanted to learn how to speak and write english and the monster just so happened to be able to be there at the right place and time. And again, I feel so bad for him. He feels happy when the family is happy, depressed when they are sad.

Frankenstein 10

Poor monster..... his background story shows how he is just an innocent creature trying to figure out how to live. Now this reminds me of Tarzan learning how to turn from a wild animal into a human. He observes a poor family and feels guilt for taking their food. Again the theme of being alone shows up when he just watches and helps them anonymously. The fact that the POV is now the monsters is also interesting, it shows the relationship between Victor and his baby.

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The relationship between Frankenstein and his monster reminds me of God with Adam(& Eve_) for some reason. The whole nature where God loved his creation, but was ashamed of their sins so he banished them and thus they felt pain and hunger and what it was like to be human. I feel so bad for the monster, he seems so innocent and nice but is a monster. I wonder if Mary felt this way about herself? Like what was the underlying message of the monster. Was she describing herself or society or someone?

Frankenstein 8

Victor is trying to be all hippy prancing around in nature. I think the nature of element is important in this novel. It seems to relate to how he feels, like when it started raining he was gloomy. Yet he goes to it to feel better because once he gets all depressed again he decides to go to some mountain to make him find the same feeling of calmness previously.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.

We rise; one wandering thought pollutes the day
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;

It is the same; for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free,
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow
Nought may endure but mutability!

I'm not going to lie, I have no idea what that means....
I think the most AWESOME part of this book was when the daemon spoke to Frankenstein. I was like WOAH HE TALKS? Because in movies he's portayed to talk all "Uuuuuoooaaaffff feeeeeeed meee o00oouggghhh"

Frankenstein 7

I have to say, I wonder what it felt like to know that your own creation killed your family. Again this ties back to why didn't he just show the people his monster? Maybe he could've lied, and said he didn't make it. I also wondered where was the monster this whole time? Just chilling in the woods? He claims that he had an "obscure feeling that all was not over, and that he would some signal crime," so why didn't he search for him. Because at this point, he seems to hate Frankenstein with all his guts... and Justine was executed for his crime. I don't know, you could always tell he felt an attachment to his creation

I don't really know what to call the daemon. I mean I always thought "FRANKENSTEIN" was the daemon, I didn't know it was his creator... it's confusing

Frankenstein 6

When Victor's cousin was killed, and he knew it was his creation who did it, I don't understand why he simply didn't tell people. Yeah he would''ve been seen as crazy, but he could've showed them what he created. I don't know if he loved his creation, because he didn't tell them, but he still claimed he would've. I think at this point you can tell Victor is a little loony, and so much is going through in his mind. In the book the diction is very dark, saying words like evil and daemon and gloom, in this particular part, so I'm not sure yet of his relationship with his monster...

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"Like one who, on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more in his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread "

pg 57

Again, Victor wraps himself in a life of loneliness and creates the one and only FRANKENSTEIN! It is horrifying to see, and even scares his own creation. I think the monster is a reflection of himself. But anyways, his friend Henry comes and visits him and Victor so stressed ends up sick. Elizabeth sends him a letter telling him to "get well and return to us." I love how there is a romantic aspect to this novel, and it's not all dark and spooky how I thought it would be.

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The death of Victors mother really stirred him up which is what I think triggered him to study the human body and life. I don't know if his creation of a "person" is sick, sad, or demented. I mean he ends up isolating everyone and I can only imagine what that does to the human brain. I wonder where Mary got the inspiration for this character which I will google up later.

Frankenstein 3

Victor's mom died from scarlet fever. I don't know if women have a play on this book, since Elizabeth and his mom got scarlet fever, but then again I could be thinking too much. I never knew why Victor ran off to Ingolstadt instead of being with Elizabeth. The book has lots of things to do with loneliness but he ran off to loneliness. Maybe his love for knowledge was greater than Elizabeth's, but Victor is reminding me of those creepy scientests from old hollywood horror films.

Frankenstein 2

I never knew that the name "Frankenstein" was the name of his creator. I always thought he himself was named Frankenstein. I have also researched to see that Frankenstein was actually written before Dracula, so maybe Bram Stoker was inspired from this book. So in the beginning of the book it's Robert Walton writing the letters to his sis, and talks about

1. he's heading out
2. he's lonely
3. he meets Victor Frankenstein

When I read this book I didn't know if they had any significance, but upon finishing I thought up some conclusions which I discovered later.. As a child Victor was friends with a girl named Elizabeth and I he became interested in alchemy. This of course probably is what will later make him create the monster. Despite his background claiming to be so well, I still had a feeling that things were not as they seemed

Frankenstein 1

The letters remind me of Dracula, and I wonder if this novel was written before or after Dracula since they are both "gothic" novels I think....... What I knew about this book before I started getting into it is that Frankenstein is about some "creature" made that is good but then gets killed by villagers because they think he is a "monster." I heard that it has romantic elements, and what trips me out the most is that the girl was 18 when she wrote it!