Frankenstein Part Two

The book is really starting to escalate and it’s getting really intense! I love that we’re getting the point of view from the monster. Shelley did it in a really creative way and she made it easy to read. I’m starting to feel bad for the monster because he longs so much to have a companion or someone to talk to. He’s an outcast and he even knows it: “I am full of fears; for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever” (Shelley 140).
His relationship with the De Lacey family was really interesting to read about as well. It’s amazing how just by watching the family he learned so much and he actually fell in love with them like they were his own family. He says that he, “tenderly love[s] these friends” (Shelley 141) even when he has not even met them before. I think he loves them because the family actually gives the monster a purpose and something to live for. After the family leaves, the monster becomes really depressed saying that he, “could no longer be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted [his] desolate state, and made [him] feel more painfully that [he] was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure” (Shelley 149). It’s clear that the monster longs for a purpose or a companion.
I was shocked at how smart the monster was as well; however, his knowledge makes him even more of an outcast: “Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was” (Shelley 137). It seems like everything the monster learns only saddens him because he knows he will never enjoy the simple things in life that humans get to experience. Because of this knowledge, he takes it out on his creator saying that he “declare[s] everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who formed [him], and sent [him] forth to this insupportable misery” (Shelley 143). Soon the monster feels rage and wants revenge. I was shocked to find out that he actually killed young William; however he does it solely for the purpose of hurting his creator: “I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him” (Shelley 151). I wasn’t surprised when he went to seek his creator. I would be mad too. He comes to Victor and offers him an ultimatum. He explains to Victor that “[he] must create a female for [him], with whom [he] can live in the interchange of these sympathies necessary for [his] being” (Shelley 153). He soon convinces Victor and he goes back to Germany to start working on the new monster, but he is procrastinating. I’m not sure if Victor is going to go through with his promise. I think something bad is going to happen soon that will make either the monster mad, or will make Victor go insane again. I can’t wait to find out what happens next!