Smith post #2 Frank

The human species has a tendency to try and play the role of God, to rewrite the outline of our fate that has been tucked away somewhere up in the clouds. We make these tricks with science and invention and we create these things without understanding the potential of their impact. Victor Frankenstein is a man who is fascinated with the endless possibilities of creation and thereby creates a monster. Throughout the first hundred and twenty pages the reader experiences many different emotions for this creature that is becoming more and more human in his cravings and actions. Frankenstein’s monster starts to internalize the loneliness of a world that does not accept him with open arms and builds the desire for a companion. He felt the pain of rejection when we revealed himself to the family that he studied and learned from for months and months of observation. He had hoped that the blind member of the family would accept him and make other members of the family accept him as well but when Felix saw him he sent the monster off the property. This led to the monster truly wanting a companion and someone to love him the way he is.“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more then he pities me?” (103). This passage shows the change in heart of the monster and the longing that he is developing for something new. Victor Frankenstein is being given the role of the “God” and creator of life in the eyes of his monster and his monster recognizes the hold that this man has on him to give or take away what makes him happy. Giving Victor this sense of being the master of creation is exactly what man-kind as a whole has begun to strive for and this is where the disconnect is between reality and fantasy.