Reading - Frankenstein

May 2017

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein who creates a humanoid. It was supposed to be a good-looking, strong man but the result was an ugly unpredictible monster. When the creature opens its eyes, Victor is aghast and runs away from him.  The humanoid tries to contact people and deserve love; nevertheless, he is repeatedly driven away. Even his creator damns him. The monster begins to take revenge. It murders Victor's dearest one by one. 

 

Justification

I bought this book in the secondhand book shop in Barnstaple this year. I asked for it and the shop assistant said that the book had just arrived and told me his story. He was a little boy and read it when he was at home alone and how he was scared. So I bought my Frankenstein published in 1945 and I love the book and the story inside. The narration is dark and thrilling. My 8-year-old son wanted to know every day how the story continuoued. I read also this book due to requirements of  Nineteenth-Century British Literature

 

Reflection

There were some expressions that I had to look up again and again. They were those that are not used in everyday English and I kept forgetting their meaning. At the end of the book I grasped them. They are mostly verbs and they are crucial for the developing of the plot. Here they are:

behold

render

bestow

retire (not only as a pensioner)

resume my labours

dissipate

 

appaling

eloquent

loathing