Thursday, April 22, 2010
Frankenstein II
Frankenstein contained a large amount of ambiguity, especially at the end. The reader never finds out how the monster was created or exactly why the monster was created. The ending tells the reader nothing concrete. The monster says he wants to die now because his creator’s dead, but there is no proof that he actually dies. Walton never killed him, instead the monster “was soon borne away by the waves and lost in the darkness and distance” (page 211). The monster could still be alive. I have an idea for Mary Shelley: Frankenstein the sequel: the monster’s change of heart.
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At first, the ending really bothered me. Then I realized, perhaps this is the perfect ending to a scary story. This is the part of the ghost story when you turn to the person on your right and say ," and the monster is still out there...NOW".
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