This creature has officially read more books than me.

"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!

Make out like it never happened, and that we were nothing.

"You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not.  I am weak; but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength" (pg 161).

If you haven't heard this song, then I recommend that you do so.  I can't decide if Gotye or Kimbra's lyrics are more likely the Frankencreature.

So you told us to blog about whether or not Victor blames himself for the happenings and I think the above quote is a major piece of the puzzle.  In the quote that I picked, Victor blatantly states that the mishaps were not his doing, but rather he was being controlled by a higher power.

Funny, the Frankencreature said the same thing about his own rage.

"I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture; but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey" (pg 164).

While writing this blog I decided that the best way to characterize Victor, was through the Frankencreature himself. See, the two were very similar in that they were both driven by destiny, but their madness isolated each of them.  Not to mention that both of them were really tall and had yellow skin and superhuman strength extremely dedicated to the point of madness because of their passions.  Like non-biological creator, like son.

I think this blog post was pretty deep if I do say so myself.

Truth hurts.

"I passed an hour in this state of mind, when suddenly I reflected how fearful the combat which I momentarily expected would be to my wife, and I earnestly intreated her to retire, resolving not to join her until I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy" (pg 144).

When I read this paragraph I legitimately lost every ounce of respect for Victor and quickly joined Team Frankencreature.  For those keeping count, I am now on Team Iago,  Team anti-dad in Death of a Salesman and now Team Frankencreature.

I can't help but laugh when I reread this paragraph just now and actually caught the second irony on it.  Well, the first one is pretty obvious and really is more of a foreshadow that something bad was going to happen to one of them, but my dog even caught it when she read the book with me.

When I reread this just now, I could not help but notice the last clause of Victor's quote.  I have some strange feeling that Victor did not actually know that he would be joining Elizabeth by realizing that the Frankencreature's situation was murdering his wife.  Remember that one time Victor murdered the Frankencreature's lady friend?

I truly believe that a water balloon fight between the Frankencreature and Victor would have been an invigorating conclusion to this novel, but I suppose that is why I just read it.

Well Victor, you really showed the monster that time!  I am so glad you were able to fulfill your duty to not join your wife until you found out where the Frankencreature was.  Why not just vow to follow the creature where ever he goes while you are at it?

Oh, well this is awkward.