"I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavoring to bestow mutual pleasure. I was now alone." (31)
This quote from Victor is the opposite of how his creation’s maturing was going so far. Victor had spent the beginning of his life with considerable amounts of love from his parents and everyone around him and had grown up with many friends and people who cared about him. The monster, however, started his life with a terrified face running away from him, and awful looks and threats from humans wherever he went. Throughout the text, Shelley shows contradictory life events and emotions between Frankenstein and his creation that somehow still tie each of the beings together with a similar bond.
the word "tie" shows up so many times in your entries -- it loses a little bit of its power; still, I think this is a great entry -- showing those contradictory experiences
ReplyDelete