Week One:The Gothic

From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley,

The “Monster”, the name of the creation Doctor Victor Frankenstein had created from a dead body. The conflict that I found in this story started from the name of this novel ‘Frankenstein’ and the Monster is basically the main point of the story.  Although, Frankenstein is the name of the doctor/ creator who create the Monster, some people nowadays still believe that ‘Frankenstein’ is the name of the Monster. Some people have been calling him Frankenstein all along until now without knowing that it is the creator’s name? Isn’t this mean that Frankenstein is the real monster? And not the Monster that he created. At this point, it is not too hard to find out who is the real monster anymore.

            From the story, when the monster was created, he was innocent and pure. He had kind heart just like other people/ babies that have just been born. He didn’t do anything wrong and it was not even his choice to be born or to be born that way (to be called the Monster). Doctor Frankenstein who created him, decided to abandon him because he is afraid and disgust with the external appearance of the Monster. The Monster who was left alone with rejection from his own creator and societies became bitter; he started thinking about taking revenge from Doctor Frankenstein.

From this point of the story, it is Doctor Frankenstein’s fault to create the Monster, to abandon him; he is the person who turned the Monster into the monster. He is the Monster himself. This can be relates to our present life that we should not judge a book by its cover.

            Frankenstein is a Gothic novel which focuses on mysterious and supernatural aspect. In my opinion, the mysterious aspect from the story is; what inspired Doctor Frankenstein to create the Monster? The supernatural aspect is; how did the Monster who was a dead person came back to life? How did Doctor Frankenstein bring him back from dead?

Doctor Frankenstein is surely desperate and pitiful but it is his own fault to create and abandon such thing that haunted him and took away his love ones’ life.