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There are many, many passages that draw me in and make me think in Frankenstein, but of the recent chapters the one passage that haunts me is "During my youthful days discontent never visited my mind; and if I was ever overcome by ennui, the sight of what is beautiful in nature, or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man, could always interest my heart, and communicate elasticity to my spirits. But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit, what I shall soon cease to be -- a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself" (Chapter 19). When I read these words, I can visually see the remorse and regret that lies in Frankenstein's heart. He is a man whose soul has been hit by a bolt of lightning--selfish power has destroyed him.
In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the novel is filled with powerful imagery. Personally I think this passage is most effective, "Iam alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me, but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me" in this passage i can imagine this creature alone. He is wallowing in self pity and realizes the cruel facts of life. This creature has just discovered that life is not as easy and kind as he once believed. He is so desprate to be loved he would condem another just like him.
I agree with Kylee that the quote she has chosen shows how the creature takes his look on life and how he is now coming to realization on how life really is. I also think that it shows how society can make an innocent creature become a monster.
Mary Shelley writes, "God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours."(Chapter 15)This quote helped me visualize how ugly he is and how ungodly he is. He is what may be portrayed to as the antichrist. I also feel as if the creature is ashamed of his appearance along with the appearance of his creator, Dr. Frankenstein.
I agree with Austin that the quote helps give a visualization of the wretchedness of the creature, and I also believe that it creates the connection and shows the similarities of him and Frankenstein. There are also many passages that provoke thought for me in the novel. One that really provoked strong emotion is "I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired. As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs" (Chapter 23). Frankenstein gives hints that this was the true meaning of the creature saying he will be there on his wedding-night, but this passage still hit me like a bullet. The imagery of this scene is able to bring up that feeling of dread and misery inside of me. This really brought me over to Frankenstein's side of the conflict because the cruelty of this act is beyond any boundaries of evil. The creature took away the single most innocent, sweet person that still existed in Frankenstein's life, and I despise him for it.
Holly McKenzie
I disagree with Holly on her passage because when I read it the emotion going through me was that of anger because of how Victor had been to selfish of his own life to realize that the creature was targeting his new bride. The passage that gave me a picture that remained in my mind through the hole of the book is "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!--Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips" (Chapter 5). This passage describes the creature which we have to live with through the rest of the book. These descriptions of it paint a picture of a hideous creature that, unlike the Halloween Frankenstein monster, is big and has yellow skin that is so thin that everything beneath it can be seen and his black lips that foreshadow the cruelty of this creature.
Travis Stennett
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