Frankenstein

Frankenstein is the waking dream of Percy Bysshe Shelley wife, Mary Shelley. This is the original story of Frankenstein, not the many Hollywood legends that pop culture have seen today. It is relative to the tale of Zeus, Proteomes, and the defiance of Proteomes. How so? We shall take a look.

The book starts with a preface and four letters. The preface talks about how the novel of Frankenstein came about. The Shelleys were on summer vacation in Swiss Alps with Lord Byron and another friend when a storm rolled in. Mary and the other friend decide to have a ghost story contest.

The letters are from Robert Walton, a North Pole explorer to his sister Margaret Saville. The letters are a little dry and lengthy. Walton is the guy who finds Victor Frankenstein and nurses him back to health. In return, Victor tells him his story.

    The first six chapters talk about Victor and his life growing up before he made the monster. His parents were loving and protective. He talks about his adopted sister, Elizabeth, who Victor promises to love and protect. Then Victor talks about going off to college at seventeen to pursue higher education. His mother grows sick and dies. At one point, Victor himself grows and a friend nurses him back to health.

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As the book goes on, drama arises in chapters seven through nine. It’s not much but at least it is something in Victor’s life.

In chapters seven through nine, Victor’s younger brother, William, is murdered. Victor is guilty and leaves to Geneva to see his grieving family. He thinks the monster killed his brother. Ironically, Justine, an adopted girl in the family, is accused of the murder. Even though Victor tries to defend his adopted sister, she confesses to it in order to redeem herself. But Justine tells Victor and Elizabeth she is innocent. (To me this all sounds like Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible.) They believe Justine but she is killed anyway out of punishment.

After Justine dies, Victor falls depressed. He about heads down the path of suicide but remembers his remaining family. Alphonse, Victor’s father, takes his kids on vacation in order to cheer up his son. Victor wanders around but then cheers up.

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Now the reader drives into the book with a splash. A completely big one at that.

Chapter ten opens as a rainy day like on the day I wrote this. Victor falls depressed again and decides to find beauty in his life again. So he heads out to the summit of Montanvert. But when he gets there, it is all ice and snow. Victor also runs into the monster-child that he ran away and neglected due to its ugliness. Angry, the young genius yells at him to go away. His “son” doesn’t do so and invites his “daddy” to sit with him at the fire in a cave. Once inside, the child tells about his life.

The kid tells about all he has experienced. He is aware of the light, darkness, needs, and suffering. The child discovers fire saw he sees it and burns himself when he put his hand on it. Everywhere he goes the monster ends up scaring people. So the son decides to avoid the human race all together. While in a cottage with three residents, he learns how to talk. At first, the son steals food from the neighbors. But then he feels guilty about it and stops. He repays the neighbors leaving wood at their doors at night. When the monster sees he reflection in the water, he sees how ugly he is and why his daddy left him. The son spends winter in Felix and Agatha’s house.

    When spring arrives, a woman appears on a horse. She is a beautiful goth in a veil. Safie, the woman, moves into the cottage and learns the language. The son learns the language as well. In time, he learns how to talk perfectly. The son learns about the villagers’ past as well. De Lacey, the old man, once learned in Paris and was a successful citizen. His children, Felix and Agatha, were well-respected members of Paris. Safie’s father was accused of a crime he didn’t commit and was sentenced to die. Felix visited the guy in prison and fell in love with Safie. They wrote letters often. Felix even tried to help her father escape. But when he got busted, Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey were put into exile and stripped of their wealth. They moved to a cottage in Germany. Safie’s mother was a Christian Arab and in slavery before she met Safie’s father.

While hunting through the woods, the son finds an abandoned bag with clothes and books in it. He learns how to read by reading the books. This seems dandy until he finds Victor’s journals and learns about what his father thought about him and his birth. Crushed, the monster walks back to village and hopes the people will look on the inside and be friends with him. He decides to try and start with De Lacy while Safie, Felix, and Agatha are away because he believes he is unprejudiced. This plan backfires however and the youth return. Felix chases the monster away because of his ugliness. The monster decides to kill of mankind including Victor. He tries to save a girl from drowning but a stupid man with her assumes that the son is trying to kill her and shoots the poor defenseless monster. The son stumbles across William and kills him. But here comes another surprise. The son apparently wants some company! He wants a female monster to be with him. Victor doesn’t want to do it at first. But the monster charms his sense of responsibility with the fact that he is his creator. He blames his violent crimes on his loneliness. And says in return, that he take his mate to South America and be away from the human race. Victor agrees but his son decides to watch him do so.

Victor procrastinates with creating a female monster. But he realizes that he has to do it but he must go back to England for help. Concerned, his father questions Victor on what’s wrong. His son doesn’t answer. In order to cheer up Victor, the father decides to celebrate his marriage to Elizabeth. But Vic can’t marry Elizabeth until he keeps his promise.

Victor and Henry travel to gather more information. Impatient, Victor begins work right away. But he runs into some problems and isn’t satisfied. But in the process, Victor destroys his creature out of fear of reliving the past. His son grows enraged at Victor for it and swears revenge on his creator. Henry and Victor travel again. Victor cleans up his lab and throws the remains into the ocean. He thinks about committing suicide but he is blown off course and onto this nearby town. The people believe he committed murder and take him to Mr. Kirwin.

The witnesses claim they saw parts of a man floating in the ocean. The victim turns out to be Henry. To test this, Mr. Kirwin takes Victor to the body. When the young genius sees his dead friend, he falls sick. He stays that way for two months. When Vic recovers, he is thrown into jail. Mr. Kirwin visits him in jail. Victor’s father visits him as well. Victor is then found innocent and leaves for Geneva.

On the way, Victor and his father stop in Paris. Worried, Elizabeth becomes insecure and asks Victor if he is with another woman. Victor says no. Vic then remembers the monster threat and decides to fight back and destroy his creature. Victor and father finally plan for the wedding. The young genius decides to tell Elizabeth the truth after they marry. They finally marry and leave for their cottage for their wedding night.

This is all some completely deep stuff. It’s too deep for me to break down and throw in my own words to it.

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    Alas, we have reached the end. It’s been a decent novel so far. It’s not my cup of tea but it’s still good any way one looks at it. Here we go with the end.

Elizabeth and Victor take a nice walk around for the evening. It would be peaceful but Vic is paranoid about the monster. (Who can blame him?) He is worried about his loving wife being a witness to the monster and her hubby’s fight with so he tells her to go back to their love-nest for the night. This, however, turns out to be a huge mistake!!!! Because as Victor hunts for the monster, he hears a deadly scream from his love-nest. But he makes it their too late. Thanks to the monster, Elizabeth has gone to the pearly white gates in the sky. Crushed, Vic goes home to be the bearer of bad news to his daddy. Overcome by the tragedy on what was once a happy day, the dad ends up expiring and going to make his maker days later. At the end of his rope, Victor goes to the police about the monster. But the cops think the man is high and don’t believe him at all. So Vic decides to hunt and kill his creation all by himself—even if it kills him.

Without a family, Victor skips town from Geneva for it is too much for him too much for him to bear. For months, Vic hunts for the monster. That when he meets Walton and shares his story. He persuades his new friend to go on the monster hunt.

Walton believes poor Victor. Walt tells his sister everything. His crew wants to go home, however. Victor convinces them to keep going. The men are motivated but they whimp out and convince Walton to go home. He agrees and they do so.

Just before they all go to England, Victor ends up pushing up the daises. Days later, Walton hears strange sounds from the room. Naturally, Wal goes to investigate. He finds the monster crying over his lifeless father. The monster tells Walton about all of his suffering and says he is ready to die. Then Walton leaves onto the ship.