The Monster

Victor Frankenstein, who was born in Geneva, had a brilliant mind, full of friends and family. He even knew who his future wife would be, Elizabeth, who had been adopted by his parents. Frankenstein was always interested in books about science, animals, and resurrection. One day, he created a monster from different parts of corpses, to which he granted life during an experiment. Nameless, the monster was almost two meters tall, he has strange skin color and pieces of body parts stitched together. Eventually, Frankenstein, became a sick-minded person without humanity. However, his monster is a sensitive and emotional intellect but is not accepted by people. This causes the creature to hate the creator who is Frankenstein.

Frankenstein is a selfish person obsessed with being God who tries to create a perfect human. The novel makes us think of loneliness, discrimination by the physical appearance of people, immortality, wisdom, egotism, the search for friendship, and even the limits of science. One point that I reflect on is the possibility of technology creating issues that we think we can control, but we cannot.

Also, I think that what makes a person human and what is important for people, are definitely their feelings. They are the feelings that indicate where there is humanity. In the book, Frankenstein, when he let Justine be killed and did nothing about it, he began to lose the feelings that made him human. Instead the monster, wanted to belong to a family, it was interesting to see how Frankenstein became more like the monster, and his monster became more human.

Mary Shelley wrote this novel when she was 18 years old. A few days after her birth her mother died of a fever. Like the monster or creature, Mary was raised without a mother. The monster is created in a laboratory and without the mother figure. This book may be based on her life and her feelings.