Totally Horrid!!!

So, i thought the movie was awful! How rediculous was it that Elizabeth was brought back to life? Why did Victor even think that she would be the same as she was before? He saw the results of the first creation and yet he believed that he could bring her back for himself and they could live together normally. I think that the movie was depressing, (of course so was the book, but the movie gives you a better visual) everyone dies!!! But whatever happended to Henry? The last time i saw him in the movie he was crouched down on the side of a wall. In the end, i dont understand why Victor died, i mean he wasnt that old, was he? What did he die from? It seems that he wanted to die and so he just decided to give up living. Before he died he seemed to be running from the monster but when the monster found him dead in the boat, the monster seemed sad, like he actually cared about Victor. If he did care about Victor then why did he kill so many people in his life that meant something to him? I think that this was stupid on the monsters part because he wanted Victor to create a female for him, but then he killed everyone that meant anything to Victor and in doing so he did away with anthing that he could use to threaten Victor with to make him create another monster. It seems that the monster did not know what to do with his life so he dedicated his life to making Victor miserable, because when Victor died it was like the monster thought that he had no reason left to live so he killed himself with the oh so dramatic raising of the torch!! I think that Victor and the monster were both stupid! Victor because, it was kinda inevitable that the monster was going to kill again and he said on his wedding night so who did Victor think he was going to kill? Obviously not him because then who would make the monster his female? Mary Shelley was apparently very imaginative to think of this story but how DEPRESSING!!

The End

Wow, things sure wrapped up quickly in the novel, every chapter seems to have another person dead. Henry, he goes first, although what are the chances that his body appears on the same beach that Frankenstein lands on. Then there goes Elizabeth, how could Frankenstein be so stupid with the whole "I will be with you on your wedding night" of course he was going to kill Elizabeth, he said his goal was to torture Frankenstein not kill him. Then the dad dies, at least he isn't strangled. But what about Ernest, Frankenstein's little brother, after the dad dies all of a sudden we don't hear anything more about him. It is like Shelley forgot he exists.

As for the real end, it is kind of interesting how Frankenstein dies before the monster can get to him, it is also ironic how the monster expresses such sadness at the murder of all Frankenstein's friends but claims that they were necessary, this is the only time the monster seems demented and we have to agree with Victor in his decision not to make more monsters.

England, The Journey

Why did Shelley spend such a long time explaining Henry's and Frankenstein's trip to England. Really there is like three pages devoted to the mountains of Switzerland and the Rhine. I guess it is intended to be a foreshadowing of Henry's death. As why would he spend so much time talking about how great Henry was if he continues to live. But at the time when one is first reading it, it seems pointless and like a filler in the novel just to make it longer. Albeit on a side note the descriptions are good and one can tell that Shelley obviously did travel around Europe a lot.

Volume II Ch. 1-8

The monster's story is no doubt interesting, and I like the way Mary Shelley put that in the story so that we can see things from the monsters point of view, still I think the monster jumps to murder to quickly, he goes from one (okay two) bad experiences then makes it his mission to torture Frankenstein, I think if had been a bit more rational and hadn't killed William, Frankenstein would have probably been overcome with the monster's intelligence and seeing that he had done no misdeed would have gladly procured a second monster for the first.

قرأ بئر [إي] إلى النهاية الفصل 8 وأنا يضطرّ قلت الكتاب يتلقّى يكون يحصل إلى حدّ ما يخفّض, حتّى أنّ نقطة الهولة فقط نوع من يذبل من الصورة وأنت تتساءل إن ميري [شلّي] نسي حول ه وفقط قرّر أن يقول القصة من كيف يخلق حياة أثر منتصرة. غير أنّ بعد ذلك من الاللون الأزرق, اختنقت وليام إلى موت وبطريقة ما هم يتّهمون [جوستين]. أيّ يبدو مثل حجة جميلة فقيرة لأنّ زعما القاتلة "ترك علامته على ويليامس عنق" وبما أنّ الهولة يتلقّى أيادي ضخمة كيف استطاع القاضيات افترضت أنّ سيدة شابّة الذي [موست ليكلي] لا يتلقّى أيادي ضخمة أن يكون قادرة من يتمّ هو. أنا أتمنّى كان [شلّي] قد أتمّ شغل جيّدة أن يجعل هو أكثر معقولة أنّ الناس استطاع صدقت أنّ [جوستين] كان قد قتل وليام.

Translation
(Well, I read to the end of Chapter 8 and I have to say the book has been getting pretty depressing, up to that point the monster just kind of fades out of the picture and you wonder if Mary Shelly forgot about him and just decided to tell the story of how creating life affected Victor. But then out of the blue, William is strangled to death and somehow they indict Justine. Which seems like a pretty poor argument because allegedly the killer "left his mark on Williams neck" and since the monster has huge hands how could the judges assume that a young lady who most likely doesn't have huge hands to be capable of doing it. I wish Shelly had done a better job to make it more believable that people could believe that Justine had killed William.)

By now...

You should have the sense that Victor is mentally unstable. What evidence do you see of this? What might be the causes and the future affects of this "illness"?

I's kind of lost

I have read all that we have been assigned to read and I'm now starting in on chapters 5-10. I just get sort of confused as i read through maybe because we are reading two books at once, however just reading Frankenstein I still get lost. I know that Victor thinks that knowledge and education are extremely important. One professor in particular,M. Waldman becomes a true friend and helps Victor through school and also when he just needs someone to talk to. Victor is what i would call a genius, he is both book smart, and street smart.
He excels is most anything he does. He is particularly intrigued by science and the way the human body works, and is structured. One thing so far that really confuses me is the relationship with his adopted sister. He pictured Elizabeth as an actual gift given to him, which i don't really understand. He also calls her his again and I'm not really sure what to think of that.
~L.C.~