Creation

The past week, which I nigh forgot to speak about, is in reference to the first book required to read: Frankenstein.

I think when reading it I was surprised for though the story speaks of much horror and fear, the story is not truly terrifying. Actually, as we talked about in class, it seems a conscious (or perhaps subconscious?) reaction to family, need and creation. In the story Frankenstein creates a monster and when it truly lives, he is in fear and abandons it as if ignoring the problem will make it go away. I just remember thinking that the character shows an incredible lack of foresight into what he will do with his creation. After all, if you worked so hard on such a project, would you not think on what you will do with it when it is completed and works?

Apparently not. Frankenstein abandons the creature to itself and its lack of knowledge about the world around it. Which is not right for it spawns incredible anger and resentment in the monster. The monster goes from being gentle and observing to what it is called and considered- a monster.

But does that account for the horrors that the creature begins to set into motion? Is his disdain for the life that Frankenstein made for him fully responsible for his brutality? He did learn things in his time alone, enough to find himself in possession of moral fiber. Was it his fault he began to kill? I think that if he truly had the eloquence that he was written with that he could have found a way to live without killing a child and then an innocent woman. I think that it was very convenient for him to blame Frankenstein rather than deal with the idea that he may have to live and survive on his own without troubling his maker. That does not absolve Frankenstein of blame but when he decided not to build a mate for this creature, he at least tried to prevent putting more horror into the world.

But, perhaps, if he was going to play God and make this creature, he could have continued to do so and destroyed it rather than wait for the doom that would be bestowed upon him.

In a way, this story I believe influenced Anne Rice's Taltos race... and how in the Mayfair Witches (and later in the Vampire Chronicles), they did not wish to deal with the Taltos race and the horrors they were beginning to bestow upon the world. It is a very... disturbing pattern that I often see in novels. It almost seems like a form of mercy upon the creatures.

But sometimes mercy isn't always deserved for the wicked.