"I sickened as I read. 'Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?" (pg 93).I thought this was the first time I would blog about a rhetorical question, but it is not... so sad. This question really made me laugh. I just wanted Victor to respond with some ultra witty and sarcastic remark, but unfortunately, Victor has been proven mentally deranged and Mary Shelley clearly has no sense of humor after writing a book like this, but that is for another blog.
Now, I would be delusional to think that this reading material was not a symbol of something. There is a reason that many high schoolers do not read. See, books are often associated with people who have a lot of time or want to escape the real world and travel distant or make believe locations. For the Frankencreature, books were an escape from his solitude and his hope for a normal human life, cause you know, a lot of dogs read cat guides so that they can one day be a parrot. Nothing strange about the logic at all.
I must admit, the Frankencreature's vast learnings from these books is far passed any knowledge I learned from this novel. Seriously, how did a book about sorrows teach the Frankencreature not only to hate humanity, but to also commit suicide by burning himself.
Imagine if the Frankencreature had read a book about dragons and unicorns. Can you even imagine what would have been his thoughts on humanity had that happened? I must kill all the fluffy kittens and unicorns for their eternal joy!
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