Part Two (:

Topic1 : Alienation and loneliness
Topic2 : Nature
Topic3 : Tragedy

THEME: Appearance isn't always who you are on the inside.

" I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."

-I chose this quotation that the monster said because it shows how he felt about being lonely and how he was treated, even though he was of nice nature.

"we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such a friend ought to be -- do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."
-Page 14 

 "All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us."
-Page 83

-This quote said by the monster, Frankenstein shows that people hate him by the way he looks but yet his creator, Victor isn't hated and he's the one who created the monster.

"When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?"
-Page 105

 "I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create."
-Page 129

-I chose these two quotations because they reflect the them alienation and loneliness which was what the monster "Frankenstein" was. It tells us how lonely and unaccepted he is.

 "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
-Title page

-The monster conceives of himself as a tragic figure, comparing himself to both Adam and Satan. Like Adam, he is shunned by his creator, though he strives to be good. I chose this quote because it shows that the monster understands how alienated he is from the world.

Point of Views

The point of views in the story change to help make the novel more interesting. It starts off with Walton writing a letter to his sister, then Victor telling Walton his story who has quotes of the monsters story, in which Elizabeth, Alphonse, Caroline, and Henry all talk which show different perspectives. By allowing Victor and Frankenstein to have two separate stories it allows the reader to see each point of view. In Victor's story the reader saw Frankenstein as a mean ugly monster, where as Frankenstein's story showed us his human characteristics.
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When I read this book in 10th grade my teacher made us notice that every time someone died Victor went into severe illness. Which makes you wonder, is Victor really the monster or is he just really depressed when someone dies? “The human frame could no longer support the agonizing suffering that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions,”

-The END

The whole story was being told by Victor who was telling it to a traveler, Walton. Victor found Walton stuck in a glacier while trying to find Frankenstein. Victor was very sick and died after telling Walton the story. A couple days later, Walton hears a noise coming from the room Victor was laying dead in, it was Frankenstein who was weeping over his dead body. He said that he deeply regretted having become an instrument of evil and that, with his creator dead, he was ready to die, he left the ship and walked away into the darkness.

Chapters 18-23

Victor goes to a  island in the Orkneys to complete his project of creating a new mate for Frankenstein. Victor realizes that creating the monster might have difficulties because the new mate might not want to be with Frankenstein or they might have kids and create “a race of devils . . . on the earth.". So Victor destroys his project, mad that Victor broke his promise, Frankenstein promises that he will see Victor on his wedding night with Elizabeth. When Victor leaves the island he enters a town and is accused of murder that happened the previous night. Victor is shown the body and then sees it's his childhood friend Henry Clerval. Victor suffers a long illness for two months. For those two months he was still in jail but after the illness he went to court and they found him innocent. Victor returned to Geneva and on his wedding night he told Elizabeth to go somewhere else thinking it was him that was going to die that night, when really Frankenstein wanted to kill Elizabeth. A few days later his dad, Alphonse died. Victor broke his secrecy and told the magistrate of Geneva that their is a monster lurking around who killed Elizabeth. The magistrate doesn't believe him and he devoted the rest of his life to look for the monster and to destroy him.

Chapters 11-17

When Frankenstein invites Victor into the cave he begins telling Victor everything he has learned; light, dark, warmth, cold, hunger, thirst, and sleep. All of which he had to learn on his own, he figured out that humans are scared of him so he lived outside a families cottage, taking their food and living comfortably. But then, he notices that the family is unhappy because they have no food and is poor. Frankenstein realizes this and stops taking their food out of guilt and starts leaving wood by their door. As he keeps watching the family, he realizes that they have a way of communicating with each other "talking" and he begins to try and teach himself how to do that, it then became writing. After talking and reading and writing, he started to learn about human society and history.
Frankenstein, in my opinion started to show human characteristics. He saw himself in a reflection and realized how ugly he was and became sad, he also realized how lonely he was with nobody to be around. Also, when he started to feel guilty about taking the families food it showed he had a heart and cared and wasn't a scary monster. The monster watched the relationship between the two lovers in the cottage, and it made him lie desperate and want for Victor to accept him and not feel ashamed of him.
The monster tired of loneliness decided to introduce himself to the family, so while everyone went away for a walk he went up to the oldest one who was blind hoping that he would see his nice nature, but the rest of the family came back unexpectedly and told the monster to go away scared of how Frankenstein looked.
Being rejected from humans so many times he decided to stay away from humans. He explained to Victor that he was travelling to Geneva and on the way he tried to rescue a girl from drowning but a man who was there thought Frankenstein was trying to drown the girl and shot him. On the way he saw William Frankenstein and since he was mad at his creator Victor, he strangled William with his hands and slipped the picture of Elizabeth in Justine's pocket while she was sleeping. Trying to prove to Victor that he is lonely and will always be like that he asked for another monster to be his mate. Frankenstein promised to take his mate to South America when Victor is done creating it, and promises Victor that he doesn't have to worry about Frankenstein killing anymore.

Lincoln Park- What I've Done

This song came on the radio while driving in the car and the lyrics remind me of the guilt Victor felt after he created his monster.

Nature and scenery

I noticed in the last few chapters it mentions nature and scenery a lot. It started to affect the way Victor thought and felt. “The rain depressed me; my old feelings recurred, and I was miserable." Then it said that he went to the summit of Montanvert which had a beautiful scenery to make him feel better. I think this might be another theme in Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley frequently uses imagery in order to give a detailed description of the different exotic locations. While Shelley uses various sensory images for description of scenery, she also uses them as a method of describing the character’s feelings. For example, when Walton describes the climate of Petersburg in his first letter to his sister, he describes the slowly cooling of weather. While he “walks in the streets of Petersburg”  he “feel[s] a cold northern breeze play upon [his] cheeks” that “braces [his] nerves and fills [him] with delight” (Shelley 1). Shelley uses the same idea with Frankenstein. When Frankenstein lives on a desolate island to create his second monster, Frankenstein describes the view outside his laboratory using sensory images. He tells how “the sea…was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon” (Frankenstein 145). While Shelley does give an account of how the moon and the sea look, she also shows how Frankenstein uses the view from the beach as an escape from his toils of creating a monster. While describing the cold breeze and the temperature using sensory images, Shelley also describes how this makes Walton feel rather than simply stating that the weather is cold. In other situations, Shelley uses imagery to describe the scene. When Frankenstein travels to the Swiss Alps, he illustrates “the abrupt sides of vast mountains” and “a few shattered spines” as the “glorious presence – chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment” and even “the thunder sound of the avalanche” (Shelley 78). Frankenstein’s detailed description helps the reader visualize the scene clearly in their mind as well as the surrounding sounds and the texture of nearby objects. Altogether, Shelley uses imagery as a tool for describing the setting as well as a method to dwell into character’s feelings.

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The depression of Victor

Victor's dad writes Victor and tells him that his brother William was murdered, and there were finger marks on his neck. Victor goes to Geneva immediately, but when he arrives it's already late and all the gates are locked. Victor started to walk in the woods and go to where his brother William was killed. He saw the monster lurking in the woods so Victor started to think that the monster was responsible for killing his younger brother. When Victor returned home though, he learned that Justine was accused of the murder because William took a picture from Elizabeth before he was killed and it was found in Justine's pocket. Victor tried to help Justine and tell everyone that she was innocent but Victor was afraid that if he kept going people would think he was insane due to the harsh evidence against Justine. She admitted to the crime thinking she would gain salvation but told Elizabeth and Victor that she is innocent. Justine was executed for the murder of William.
Victor could have stopped Justine from being executed if he just told everyone of the monster he created, but again he didn't want to tell anyone. Because of that, Victor started to feel guilty knowing the monster he created killed William, and allowed Justine to be executed. Another theme: GUILT.
Victor feels so guilty that he has thoughts of suicide and becomes depressed. Alphonse tried to cheer up Victor and took his family to a home in Belrive to get away from everything. Victor wanted to clear his mind with the scenery so he went to the summit of the Montanvert. It did the opposite, there he saw the monster he created and the monster invited him into a cave where he started to tell Victor about what has been going on in his life.