A Book You Thought You Wouldn't Like, But Ended Up Loving
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I had just been exposed to too much popculture regarding Frankenstein that I believed it couldn't possibly be a good story on any plane of existence. Then it got assigned to me to read as a senior in high school and I wanted to shoot myself. Until I picked up a copy of the book and started reading it. We were running out of time in the year so it was decided we wouldn't read the whole book as a class - we just had to follow along at certain points in the book and watch the Halmark mini-series.
I was the only one in the class who actually read the whole book - because it was so amazing and such a surprise from my preconceived notion. I was picturing the horrid Frankenstein from the movies and his bride.
However, Frankenstein's Monster was brilliant, made excellent points, used rational thinking, and was completely in the right. From where I'm standing anyway. I will still argue that the real villain of the story is in fact, Victor Frankenstein. I kind of hate him actually. Force someone into existence, take one look at your creation, and peace out? Really? That's mature.
And all the horrid treatment the monster gets by random civilians just because he looks different. He totally helped that family out, chopped wood for them, did random odd and end jobs around the mini-farm. All he wanted was human interaction - and all he got was chased out and threatened. Classy job humanity.
I think the Monster is entirely justified. And I would have been his friend. I would happily be his friend. So, I leave you with a quotation from the Monster, "Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous." - Mary Shelley.
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