A review by emkathh
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

5.0

I have just recently started reading more classics, and though I haven't read all that many yet, Frankenstein is probably the one I have liked the most. I find that a lot of the typical classics can be a little heavy to read, but this wasn't the case with Frankenstein. The writing was easy to follow, and did great in portraying the horror and despair of the story. With the word horror, I do not mean that I think this is a particularily scary story. No, it is actually a very sad one. For someone who has not read Frankenstein, Victor's creation is probably just a monster with bolts in his neck, who grunts instead of speaks, and is evil. But he was not born, or made evil; it is the way he was treated by everyone in his life that made him so. All the tragedies that happened during his life, because of him and his creator, could have been prevented, had only one person treated him differently. His experiences is what carved him into a being capable of gruesome actions, and Mary Shelley did great in making the reader sympathize with him. I do, however, sympathize with Victor too. Somehow, they are both the villain of the story, and at the same time, none of them are.

Because, in the end, Victor was just a young, ambitious and naive man, whose actions gave consequenses he never could have imagined. And as for "his creation", the poor being was born into a world that was never going to give him a chance.