Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Frankenstein, Charecters
The characters of this book are developed in a tragic manner with our two main characters being the misunderstood monster and the semi insane doctor. The way the monster is characterized is through the description of his look, being made up of a lot of different people's body parts and then being reanimated and treated as a scary mindless being with no feelings. But then later on they use the monsters emotions to characterize him when he develops a voice after he escapes and picks it up from the people he crosses paths with. He then goes down an angry path of rage, that leads to him hiding in the north pole and later killing himself after the death of his creator.Then we have Dr. Victor Frankenstein a who is characterized as the guy that got what he worked his whole life for but when he gets it, he ends up not liking it, and in fact comes back to haunt you. Also almost everything in this guy's life goes wrong with the death of his mother at an early age to when his own creation the monster kills his brother and then he goes into a rage state were he doesn't care if he lives or dies as long as he put's a stop to the monster from harming anyone else but in the end the person he was protecting the most his wife is murdered by the monster. This leads to him feeling a loss for any meaning in life, and he almost becomes emotionless in his pursuit of the monster as he tracks it down to the north pole, and is never able to kill his creation but instead is killed and it ends the book on the monster drifting along on an ice raft ready to die, and the book ends with the two main characters being dead along with all their friends and that leaves it on a tragic note, and it brings up the question of who's more powerful the creator or the creation.
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ReplyDeleteWow Andy! I think that last question you posed is really powerful. I think our "creations" came become more powerful/impactful than we ever imagined. I think parents (and teachers!) hope their kids are more successful than they were and want more for their kids than they had.
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