The Creature of Frankenstein: Friend or Murderer

The Creature of Frankenstein: Friend or Murderer

By: Nikki L.

In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, Shelley illustrates the story of Victor Frankenstein being fascinated with the creation of life and decides to create life in a non-living subject. On a cold and rainy November night, Frankenstein gives life to lifeless being that he had created from stolen body parts from dissecting rooms and slaughter houses. Thinking the creature would be beautiful, Frankenstein gave the creature life. After seeing how hideous the creature was, its yellow skin not covering its muscular system and its blood vessels, along with it being about eight feet tall, Frankenstein abandoned the creature hoping that he could live a normal life forgetting he had created a hideous creature.

Years passed by before Frankenstein gets word of the misfortunes back at home. Upon arriving back home, he sees the creature where his late baby brother has been found and comes to the conclusion that the creature had murdered his brother. However, Frankenstein does not tell anyone of this experiment and lets Justine take the guilt for killing his brother. Frankenstein kept quiet about the creature due to the fear of having no one believe him.

Frankenstein decides to ponder his thoughts in the mountains. He travels to the top of the mountain where he dwells for days about the past events, waiting for the creature to appear and show himself to him. The creature shows himself to Frankenstein and Frankenstein immediately attacks the creature accusing it of murdering his brother. The creature asks Frankenstein to listen and hear his side of the story before Frankenstein leaves and condemns the creature to solitude for the remainder of his existence. Frankenstein agrees to hear the creature’s story before judging him.

But will the creature’s story console Frankenstein to the point where he will love the creature for who he is and what is looks like, or will Frankenstein shun the creature away and take his revenge against the creature by killing it because he killed his brother and led to the death of Justine? Can the creature of Frankenstein be trusted as a kind-hearted friend or a murderer who has sought revenge against his creator for abandoning him? I believe that the creature will compromise with Frankenstein, who then begins to create the creature’s demand but before finishing the project, Frankenstein decides that for the world and the community, he will dispose of the project because he does not trust the creature will keep his promise once the creature gets his female companion and that if the creature does have a female companion, will the world be terrorized for centuries to come because the creature and his companion have created young monsters that will terrorize villages for generations.

Victor Frankenstein’s creation will not only cost him his life and sanity, but the lives of the ones he loves the most, including his dear father, baby brother, and wife Elizabeth whom he has known since he was a young boy.

But the most controversy question in the novel is whether the creature of Frankenstein is a friend that can be loved and trusted by others, or is a murderer who has a hideous face and is taking revenge of the town’s people for isolating him from the world and taking revenge on his creator for abandonment.

My Table

My favorite part about English class is my table, it consist of Me, Ryan, Scott, Dustin, and our leader David Bell. All in all, its a pretty dope set-up, we all talk trash on Dustin cause he's going to get back with S______ "again" and he gets all sad when we call him a ........... Ryan and Scott (when he tries) are the brains of our table and hold the dynamic of the group together. While David and I are the swag of the group, we're just completely awesome and do work. So all in all, i like English class, Mrs. Elliott is pretty sick and her swag teaching swag is untouchable.
On another note I like learning about poems they really expand on my horizon, especially the ones that are about who you are and where your from. These poems go tme to think a lot and i ended up writing one of my college applications on the basis of what we learned in class :)
-Jake Kent

Frankenstein discussion by Jessica Danial

Earlier in the week we discussed Frankenstein in class and how Shelley relates to her character Robert Walton based on the letters he wrote to his sister. What I found was that Shelley incorporated aspects of her life into Walton's stories and insights. When Walton would began to describe his adventurous experiences, he compared them to that of a child's: "with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat...on an expedition of discovery up his native river". This relates to Shelley's life in that her children would all pass away at a young age and she might have reflected her fantasies of a child's playfulness into her book. Also, she had an expedition of discovery herself when she began to read her mother's books and decided to become a writer herself. Walton's letters also revealed a sense of loneliness when he would tell his sister of his longing to have someone to talk to and it could be possible that Shelley herself felt lonely and found writing to be her way of expressing herself.

How does Shelley incorporate aspects of her life into this weeks reading?

To Be of Use Mock Writing by Chanel Chu

The people I love the best

Say whatever they want

Without worrying about getting weird responses

And laugh to the most ridiculous of jokes.

They are at most peace when together

The rosy cheeks of their faces

Exploding from excessive laughter.

I love people who are honest to themselves; Gandhi against all others

Who stick to his opinions, with unrelenting force,

Who believes firmly in his morals and upbringings that he was raised with

Who tell it like it is, to anyone to everyone

I want to be with people who protect

No matter the case, who step up in front of me

And refract all harm and eliminate danger

Who are not pusillanimous poltroons and hazard flee-ers

But stand in a chivalrous stance

When the fears come in or the nightmares reign

The character of the world is difficult as calculus

Complex, it is this and it is also that

But what I love about you all

Is the diversity, that strengthens, entertains, and ameliorates.