Midu Reads

A quote that stayed with me:

“If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing, of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.”

It made me think if it is our relationships and loved ones that make us human.

A new word that I learned:

Siroc is probably a variation of sirocco, which is a “hot dust-laden wind from the Libyan deserts.

After reading the following lines:

“eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.”

I felt the similarity between Frankenstein and the monster he created even more clearly. I can’t really explain why they seem like the same person.

Review

I am really glad that I did read this book. More than anything, I came from it feeling sorry for the poor creature that Frankenstein created and then abandoned. It gave me a new appreciation for the rules of society, ethics, morality that we take for granted. Without it, we might all turn into monsters.

I also wanted to point out that while the monster was never taught right from wrong, Frankenstein had been. Yet, the creature seemed kinder than his creator.

I don’t think any other conclusion was possible but I still think that it ended rather abruptly.

Wrap Up

Now that I am done with the parent material, it is time to move on to the anthology, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein.

Find the previous updates here and here.

Details of Project Frankenstein can be found here.