Frankenstein

Growing up watching TV and hearing other people talk about Frankenstein during halloween has given me a false impression. I always thought that Frankenstein was the monster and that the entirety of the story of Frankenstein was of creating him and bringing him to life. I was too young to understand that the story of the monster is a long one and that bringing him to life is really just the beginning.

The story itself is a sad tale of a soul who is born without any identity, forced to roam the world alone in search of human companion. The monster sees how humans interact with each other and attempts to interact with them himself, but every time is rejected by mankind. These initial acts of humans has already begun to form his identity. He grows fearful of humans through his own physical appearance. Which in turn forced himself to hide from society. While reading that he was able to go into hiding for a year you would think that he would develop more of a healthy identity for himself while he learns the language and how people interact. Although this was not the case; He was at no fault for trying to fit in but society wouldn't let him. I honestly felt sorry for the monster and did take his side from here on out in the story. Even though he kills Frankenstein's son and frames his wife it was Frankenstein alone who was in the fault for abandoning a 'child'.

Frankenstein's monster is essentially a kid that lost his way, a kid that couldn't make peace with trying to fit in and find a different calling in life (animals, art, nature, ect) because of the hole in his life; love. Unconditional love from his parent would have made the difference of everything in the monster's life. Perhaps even Frankenstein could have introduced him into society slowly through the proxy of an understanding human. The only issue with that was that Frankenstein was not understanding and fled from his own creation. Frankenstein's monster was a monster created out of neglect not test tubes.