Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Frankenstein

I personally feel that Frankenstein has two themes the first is that you cannot run away from your problems and the second one is that if people judge you by your appearance that your appearance will make you become what people believe that you are. First let’s talk about how you cannot run away from your problems when Victor first sees the monster is alive he that say "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." What this in a nutshell means is that first he was ashamed of what he created. It was funny how he thought that if he was to go asleep the monster would simply go to sleep or I guess just die again.  This is where the running begins, and in the morning when he wakes up the monster is standing over him.  In the mind of a monster he is only doing what children sometimes do to their parents when the children cannot sleep at night but back to the theme; when he sees the monster he leaves his house and leaves the monster there. He then runs from the monster during the whole rest of the story and only stops for a moment when the monster tells Victor how lonely is and that he will stop being evil if Victor builds him a companion.  Which victor then changes his mind when he again sees the one monster that he has already created and then I guess this is the first time that he did not run from his problems. He then runs from the monster during the whole rest of the story and only stops for a moment when the monster tells Victor how lonely is and that he will stop being evil if Victor builds him a companion.  Which victor then changes his mind when he again sees the one monster that he has already created and then I guess this is the first time that he did not run from his problems. 
 The second theme is that you should not judge people based off of their appearance or you can make them evil like you how see them as. In the beginning the monster is innocent like a child but as the story goes on he eventually turns evil, and this is because people seen a big ugly human like monster and when you see something like that your body goes into fight or flight mode. 
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  1. UnknownOctober 5, 2017 at 7:16 PM

    I too would agree that you should not judge one solely off of their appearances. Appearances cannot always be helped. Like in today’s society your looked at as being “poor” if you aren’t wearing the newest style of Nike, or Jordan shoes, or if you don’t have the new “Michael Kor’s” watch, wallet, or clothing, when that isn’t always the case. There are VERY wealthy people who wear clothes from the thrift store down the road. They simply have a different style than others and that is perfectly okay! Those that are gothic tend to be labeled as “Satanist” when they aren’t they just simply like darker colors, different types of music. It’s all about the way they express themselves. I feel like people look too deeply into someone’s appearance instead of looking what is deep down inside of them.”Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung; in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.” Felix didn’t even attempt to ask the monster or try to conversant with the monster as to what he was doing in his house or what the monster wanted. He simply judged the monster by his looks and then took action by beating the monster instead of trying to look within the monster and who he is as a person he based it entirely off of his appearance.

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  2. Thomas CrossOctober 6, 2017 at 4:50 AM

    I agree that a main theme of “Frankenstein” is that you can't run away from your problems. It is made clear throughout the story that no matter where Frankenstein went the Monster would always catch up with him. Just like problems find people in real life the monster always finds Frankenstein. Also Frankenstein avoiding his problem that being the Monster only creates more problems throughout the story. I also agree that another theme one could get from this story would be if people judge you by your appearance then you will become that which people think you are. The Monster is a good example of this in the story. The monster is not violent or mean at first, but everyone assumes that he is violent. This causes people to treat the Monster with violence. The Monster then has to use violence to defend himself, but just causes more violence. So overall I agree with your main points of people not being able to run from there problem and that people will become what society tells them they are.

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  3. SamanthaOctober 6, 2017 at 8:02 AM

    I totally agree with you on the theme of Frankenstein being that you can’t run away from your problems, and also about you can’t judge someone by their appearance. People are always saying “you can’t judge a book by its cover” and you really can’t, for instance a wealthy person may be wearing out of style clothes, older shoes, etc. and people will assume they are poor, when they really aren’t. But the person was so quick to just put them in the poor category because of their appearance before they even knew anything about them. Just like Victor who didn’t even get to know his creation because as soon as he was created victor got scared and ran. Speaking of running from your problems, Victor states “unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room” he was so quick to judge the monster that as soon as it was created he just decided to leave.

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  4. UnknownOctober 6, 2017 at 6:40 PM

    I also agree that the main theme of this story is that running away from your problems is never the answer to the actual problem. If you simply decide to run from all your problems only 1 of 2 things are bound to happen. You will either create more problems from running or run right back into the same problem that you were trying to get avoid. This ties into this story perfectly because in running from the problem, that was created by the decisions he made, he only created an ever bigger problem. He created an actual monster. I also agree with the second theme my classmate stated in that prejudging someone will turn them into the person you thought they were. When the "monster" first came about he wasn't even a real monster. It wasn't until he treated him in such a way that the "monster" actually became evil and violent.

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  5. Cle'Varus OneyOctober 6, 2017 at 7:20 PM

    I agree with the idea that Frankenstein shows the people will become what they are seen as. I believe this would only be at a time of extreme mental or emotional weakness. People will either become the negative view that people already have of them, or they will come to terms with it. The creature was treated as a monster, so that’s what he became. There’s the possibility that the creature could have come to terms with how he looked to others and later became someone accepted by some small village. I’d consider it the same as a fat or bigger kid choosing to let others cloud his judgement, instead of coming to terms with how he looks and finding his stronger points. The creature’s strong points would have been his strength and kind heart, he just came on a bit too strong. Overall, it is a nice view at how people can be changed by the actions/responses of others.

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  6. Courtney AhrnsOctober 6, 2017 at 7:23 PM

    Victor definitely tried running from his problems, although he didn’t get very far. I know that he was very tired from creating the monster, but that wasn’t really a good reason to leave him like that. On the third page, Victor said, “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his so completely as I should deserve theirs.” Frankenstein thought of himself as the father of this creature, and knew that he couldn’t care for him, so he just left him. I also agree with your point about the appearances. If the monster would have been loved on instead of judged so harshly, he would have had better self-confidence and not have been so evil. Although Victor Frankenstein was a fatherly figure to this monster he created, he wasn’t a very good one, and he treated his “child” very awful.

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  7. Katie_Nix_HSUOctober 6, 2017 at 8:00 PM

    Katie Nix
    I completely agree that the main theme in Frankenstein is that no one can run away from their problems. I believe this goes with our class discussion about taking responsibility for our actions. Frankenstein rejects the monster and runs away. He refuses to truly acknowledge what he has done and tries the easy way out, to literally run away from his problems. We see that the monster still remains an issue and in fact, turns into a problem that affects more people than just Frankenstein himself. Sometimes our problems can end up affecting more than just ourselves and cause serious damage. Frankenstein could have dealt with the monster in the beginning, facing his problem head on, and we would have seen a different story. When examining this idea/theme, the story becomes easy to relate to (as a learning tool). We can relate to Frankenstein’s reaction to run away from the problem. It is easier to simply run away and hope the problem vanishes then to actually face it. But it will cause fewer problems if the issue is dealt with in the beginning then if we wait and let it grow.

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  8. Zachary LunnOctober 6, 2017 at 9:12 PM

    Running away from your problems seems to be the norm nowadays. I completely agree with your thought that the main point was revolved around running away from the decisions we make. As a human I want to do my best at everything I do. I never want to make mistakes, so when I do make a mistake I either feel embarrassed or just decide to hide/run from my mistakes. Victor thought his plan was great and thought he was going to succeed in a way that would appease his dreams, when in reality it was just his nightmares. He should have just faced his problems head first instead of running from them because as we know and as I exemplified with my own experience, that doesn’t work. With your second point I think people get judged so much just by how they look and its extremely frustrating. If we could just sit and have a conversation with someone before instantly judging them that would solve a lot of problems.

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  9. UnknownOctober 7, 2017 at 8:58 PM

    I agree that if people judge you by your appearance then that will have a big impact on who you become. When people are younger, how people treat them and act around them determines who that person will become in the future. I was raised around a loving and caring family, which is more than likely why I am the loving and caring person I am today. Those who are raised in kind environments and like the saying goes, “hurt people, hurt people.” Though the monster did not go off and harm others, he was still hurt in his heart because he longed to receive the love that he deserved, given that he had done nothing wrong to be treated the way he was. It is not something that I or anyone has control over, but everyone should be treated with care and respect, especially those who are inocent and deserving of it.

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