By DMS
I was enjoying reading Frankenstein until the scene in which Victor Frankenstein's creation breathed his first breath. I felt the horror of what Victor Frankenstein felt when he saw his creation was indeed alive. Yet I blame Victor Frankenstein for what he has done. He created a form of being and rejected his own creature. Why on earth would a parent abandon his child?
I know that from Shelley's description, the monster was such a horrible creature. Shelley writes, "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips." It is indeed the description of such a monster. People who may see the creature would run away; others may faint in place from such a horror. It raises a question for me: is it possible for a mother to give up her son or daughter if her son or daughter's appearance is ugly?
I realize that this question may rise in people's minds when they read Frankenstein. I believe there is a purpose that Mary Shelley wants to achieve: a story that engenders an explicit feeling - either happiness, sadness, or even anguish. According to what I previously stated, emotion is one element that Romantic writers express in their work. This is what Mary Shelley does in Frankenstein.
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