2nd Post: Reaction to Christopher Schildt

I agree with what Christopher Schildt said about Frankenstein. " Mary Shelley was not writing about the evils of science and progress, but sufering and loss and pain, the feeling of being ostracized that i think she knew very well." (Schildt). Shelley did go through tough times in her life. She may have written the book in realtion how she felt to other people or society. Her mother died when she was ten days old, Shelley's premature born daughter died, and her husband died when his sail boat sank in a storm. I also agree that we all feel a little like the creature at times. Most kids feel as an outcast sometimes. " I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched." Mary Shelley went through many things in her life time, similar to what some people have to go through today. The monster is a representation of all of us.

1st Blog: Personal Reaction to Frankenstein

This far, Frankenstein has been an interesting book. The beginning of the book was slow, but it has picked up. I think the book is very well written. It is a true horror story for the time period it was written in. Mary Shelley is a great author.

Frankenstein has had many twists in the book so far. I did not expect for the creature to have murdered William. The creature has also almost self-taught himself how to speak English and learned how to read and write. I did not expect the creature to have its own feelings and really be able to function as a human life form. " God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance." (Shelley 119) This shows how the creature has feelings and gave me a different perspective on the real story of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been a great book so far and continues to leave you wondering what happens next.