The story behind Frankenstein

Frankenstein,

a reflection by Marta Gmaz

Everyone thinks that Victor Frankenstein’s monster, the character by Mary Shelly, is a monster killing everyone who gets in his way.

However, the opinion changes, if one thinks of him as of a lonely creature, longing for friends and family.

After listening to an extract about his life and learning how his character came to life in literature, I think that the monster actually presents depressed and sad people. The way he kills stands for chaos in depressed people’s minds and the way they feel.

To me, Frankenstein’s monster is a hero and, at the same time, to some extent, I do not like him - but none is perfect and without flaws.

I don’t like when he kills - however, he kills not being aware that other families feel scared or sad because of his mischievous doings.

Also, I don’t like the way other people treat him and I honestly think that in a way people made him a ‘monster-like killing machine’ by hurting him or causing pain while he wanted to defend himself.

People didn’t realize that he had been lonely, they were just seeing his scary and poor appearance, they did not want to understand him and meet a great, sweet ‘monster’, who only wanted some company and understanding friends.

To conclude it is a story about society and different individuals - about differences created by the society and as such - to be sanely dealt with.