The Final Chapter

13th Blog Post / Revisit of earlier post


I decided to revisit a post from the first weeks reading about the Frankenstein Monster. Besides horror being my favorite genre, the Frankenstein Monster is probably my favorite character in the vast world of creatures goblins and ghouls. The adversity he faces, the misunderstand aspect of his intentions when trying to find Dr. Frankenstein, and the life he was forced to live because of his apparence all lend to this sympethatic approach I get when reading this novel.

As the reader I can find so many things that I can relate to in this novel. The Frankenstein Monster didn't choose to the life he was born into, none of us do. So when he is abandoned by his master Dr. Frankenstein he throws a tantrum just like a new born and then we start to see what he is capitable of. His destructive force that turns into a killing machine, though he doesn't know what its wrong at first but to us, he is this un-human nightmare sent here to kill us which isn't his intentions. He was just scared, but then he starts to learn on his own since he was abandoned.

His ability to learn is the reason he becomes so dangerous. The Frankenstein Monster his forced to teach himself throughout the story. One important thing is speech, with this tool he is able to communicate with Dr. Frankenstein and with every human that he comes across. I found this to be extremely interesting because the Frankenstein Monster is one of the few intelligent creatures of the night. Which brings him up to a human level, I can get inside his mind so to speak because he can voice his thoughts, I start to understand his reasoning towards the end of the book when he kills Dr. Frankensteins wife out of revenge. Most of the time the monsters tend to be mindless animals in a sense, running off their natural instincts. Creatures like zombies, some ghost, werewolves, king kong etc. But at this point in the story, the Frankenstein Monster is actually plotting is revenge for being left alone and is strategically planning who to kill, who is closest to Dr. Frankenstein.

The thought of having something with that mindset and the ability to carry it out is pretty scary because now there is reason. Moral of the story, don't give a monster a reason to want to kill you, especially if he can come up with a reason.