Frankenstein, a tale of a curiosity for life turned deadly obsession, explores one man's unhealthy and immoral fixation on existence. Before I read this book, I thought I knew how this story went. A mad scientist creates a monster. The monster is evil and ugly. The monster kills people. I"m sure I"m not the only one who painted this stereotypical picture in their head of Frankenstein and I"m sure I"m not the only one who thought Frankenstein was the monster's name, and not the scientist's. Although I knew the basic gist of the story, I was wrong about a few things.
While reading Frankenstein, I was surprised to find that the story had a lot to do with Victor Frankenstein's life, rather than his monster. I felt the beginning of the book was somewhat hard to follow and slow-moving. This could have been because I wasn't sure at first who was talking and also because I was anticipating the introduction to Frankenstein's dreaded creation. When this finally happened I started getting sucked into the book a little bit more, although it seemed Victor had a tendency to ramble. .
My favorite part of the book was when the monster explained to Victor his story and explained how he had been living his life while he had been on his own. I thought it was interesting .
how he learned to speak and find food despite the fact that he was made up of a rotting dead person. Even though the monster had a habit of killing the occasional person, I feel Victor should have been a little nicer to his monster. If I was made of a decaying corpse, I"d be pretty mad too.