Partly due to the death of his beloved mother, Victor Frankenstein becomes interested in science. He studies doggedly for years and carries out various experiments for which he steals bodies from church yards. Brooding over the questions of eternal life and resurrection he finally succeeds at bringing a body to life. This moment of triumph is swept away by pure horror. He has created a monster so abhorrent he can’t even bring himself to look at it. When he finally calms himself down and goes back to his laboratory the monster is gone. He believes the monster can’t survive ‘out there’ but he is wrong. The monster, because of his appearance, has become an outcast who he seeks vengeance…
From the middle of the book it’s quite obvious what is going to happen after the monster threatens his creator.
But the main character seems to be slightly blind in that matter, even though the monster repeats the threats several times throughout the book. I had the feeling that Shelley thought the reader was stupid and had to be helped to understand. There was a certain pressure on Shelley to make the book a literary masterpiece and you can tell.
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