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Summary: The BEST book I EVER read
Review: I have read the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, the Hobbit, the Silmarillian, Star Wars books, Treasure Island, and much much more. But this is the best book I have ever read. I would recomend this book to almost anyone.
P.S.Dont expect the flat headed monster from the movie (its nothing like that), but dont try to get bang that image from your head either it fun to see the contrast.
P.P.S. I dont want to insult anyone but if you have limited vocabulary dont read this book, you simply wont apreciate it enough.
P.P.P.S. Please excuse my horrible spelling.
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Summary: Who is the REAL Frankenstein?
Review: Frankenstein is a classic that every child had heard of, but who is the Frankenstein we imagine when we hear that name? A scary, green, ugly monster that holds his hands up like in the maraca? Or is it a lonely and curious scientist that releases an alien creature into a society that kills and destroys? Mary Shelley named the ladder Frankenstein and she did so correctly.
Who are the Frankenstein's in our society today, who are the enemies, who are the destroyers? The scary creatures of man or the quiet, good looking men who smile and fade away? This book is amazing because of the issues it presents by answering this question. This classic doesn't only use the language of the old British that sweep your tongue and give you the feeling of intellectual bliss, but it also poses a question that continues to be asked throughout the centuries. Who are the REAL Frankensteins?
Mary Shelley knew her answer and gave evil a beautiful name that most have used and see each day. Evil is disguised in the finest clothing and the richest words, evil is not in the ugly, the uneducated, the unknown, it is in the men and women who question how to create. Curiosity of God's work, God's hands, God's power. At the end of this book you know where evil resides and who Frankenstein really is. This book will give you a different image every time you heear the word Frankenstein and question, who is the real Frankenstein?
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Summary: Frankenstein Rev.
Review: Frankenstein is a very inventive story. That is a must for any horror story fanatic. The mid-section of the book drags just a little (little too repetitive), but all and all it's a very good book. I could go on, but i dont feel like it. The books ok, i gave it 4 stars ..just ..because. read it u want to, if u dont want to, then dont ...whatever.
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Summary: A Story That Shall Always Be Remembered
Review: I had to read this in my English class and I always wanted to read it. Mary had quite the imagination! The novel did not disappoint me whatsoever. I found it to be a great read and overall one of those stories that you just can't instantly judge as which character is the antagonist or the protagonist. The novel makes you think deeply about both Victor and the monster he created. It's the splitting image of a gothic novel and indeed just as scary and amazingly thought up as can get. To imagine one man creating his own human is an idea that is mad as well as amazing to think even of.
The story starts off where a ship up North finds a man and takes him up on their ship, and the leader listens to the story the man tells in agony and woe. It's of Victor as when he was younger, and happy and fascinated in an idea he conjured, of creating his own human. But only discord happens afterwards, and Victor realizes he must destroy his creation before the whole human race is in danger. But alas, the monster has a negotiation, and Victor must decide if he will uptake it for the sake of his family and the rest of the world's safety.
This is a story that will leave you thinking deeply and possibly shedding a tear. It's up to the the reader nonetheless, to wonder if they dare read such a chilling tale.
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Summary: The name refers to the scientist
Review: I love this book and how fitting it should be written by the child of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelley.
I just think on what my Literary Types prof at the University of Michigan had to say...
"It's the story of a crazed undergraduate."
"All right, Viktor, you put the twelve-inch [organ] on the monster and what do you think he's going to do with it?"
Made a 7 a.m. class worthwhile.
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Summary: This is a Classic?!
Review: I was forced into reading this for my senior AP humanities class over the summer. I began about three weeks before school started, and it took me a week to get though, despite being a relatively short book. I literally almost fell asleep every ten pages. Mary Shelley almost as much in need of a good editor as John Milton with his insanely written Paradise Lost. She spend eons talking about how lovely the mountains are, then spends around five seconds explaining the birth of The Monster. This tendancy to skip over the exciting parts as though they were unimportant may have been intentional (that's what my humanites teacher tells me) but it still bored me. Also, I don't really care what the mountains looked like. Victor Frankenstein whines his way through the entire novel, which is really irritating because everything that happens to him is his own fault. When it comes to the development of The Monster, Mary Shelley seems to think that somehow, magically, The Monster knows way too much. Too many convient things happen. For example, he just happens to hang out behind a hut housing several very nice peasants, and they never notice? Yeah, right. Also, he just happens to find three very important and significant texts that have striking parallels to his own situation? Again, yeah right. It reached the point of ludicrocity. I sincerley did not enjoy this book, and though I know that it may partially be Percy Shelley's fault (evidently, he was her editor), and I know that Mary Shelley had many miscarriages and children's deaths and this book is about that and blah blah blah, I will never enjoy it.
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Summary: A must read
Review: Mary Shelley was ahead of her time in writing what some consider to be the first ever science fiction novel. What I found most intriguing about this book was that the main story was not defined to me until one moment at the very end. In fact, I am still unable to decide for myself whether it is what it is. A definite must read for anyone who is at all interested in fantastic fiction.
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Summary: Who's the real monster?
Review: Mention the name "Frankenstein" and the first image to pop into people's minds is one of a big, dumb, green guy with bolts coming out of the sides of his neck. Anyone reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the first time may be surprised to learn that in the novel the creature is neither inarticulate nor ignorant. He is the product of a zealous doctor's quest to take life and death into his own hands. The creature is shunned by all mankind, including the one person who should feel some compassion or responsibility for him, his creator, Dr. Frankenstein. All the creature ever wants is to be accepted by society and to find companionship. With an intellect superior to that of the average human being, he learns to speak and read. It isn't until after he understands that he is doomed to a life of rejection that he seeks revenge, turning violent and murderous. The underlying question of the novel is, who is the real monster here, the formidable creature or the creator who abandoned him?Through the creature's own words, we hear of his confused awakening and search for understanding. From the start he recognizes that his appearance is so horrifying as to repulse anyone who sees him. Fittingly, once he has taught himself how to speak and read, his first attempt at communication is with a blind man. When he realizes the futility of his search for a friend, he focuses his efforts on another objective - revenge upon the one who brought him into this cruel world. The creature sets out to make Frankenstein's life the same sort of hell as his own. The scientist Frankenstein goes to great lengths to complete his experiment, realizing too late that there are consequences for interfering with the laws of nature. He brings to life a most unnatural beast, and flees in horror from the being he has created. Feeling no responsibility to comfort the creature in any way, he instead wishes to completely abandon it and forget that it even exits, leaving it to struggle single-handedly in a world where it does not belong. Is it any wonder that his creation becomes slightly incensed at his abandonment and seeks to create for Frankenstein a life equal to his own in misery and isolation? Who deserves the label of "monster"? First-time readers of Shelley's novel may have a hard time accepting that the creature is not a purely evil or demonic being; contrary to popular belief, he does not just wake up and start strangling people. The creature in the novel has qualities we more easily identify with, such as the desire to be loved and accepted. On the other hand, Dr. Frankenstein's actions are questionable at times. Is the creature justified in his revenge? Or does Frankenstein get the bad end of the deal, his originally well-intentioned experiment gone sour? Either way, reading Mary W. Shelley's novel presents to us the viewpoint of a very different "monster" than we expect.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: One on a list of many that I always wanted to read... Recently finding the time, i picked it up from the library and read it. It was a great read, its written in old/middle english, but not bad enough that you cant tell whats going on. Its a great story, it really is. Forget what you think you know about the story of Frankenstien, read the book !!!
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Summary: Romantic delight
Review: Rereading this work one wonders is it silly or not, and if it is not silly, why couldn't Mary Shelley have repeated her achievement. She lived a long life, enjoying fame as Shelley's widow.
The work is seemingly as marvellous as ever. The wild story is perfectly balanced by the writing done in the classical style of the times. Frankenstein is, of course, a variant of the Prometheus myth. Both Byron and Shelley were working on the myth in their poetic careers when this novel was composed, rather as a lark.
Mary Shelley describes Scotland and Switzerland, places of particular and significant happiness to her. Victor Frankenstein discovers he has the power of bestowing animation. He beholds the monster he created on a day in November.
Victor learns from his father of the death of his younger brother William. Returning to his father's house, he discovers that a girl, Justine Moritz, is suspected of having committed the murderous deed. Victor puts forth the claim that Justine is innocent. Poor Justine is convicted and seeking absolution at the point of her execution, she makes a false confession. Victor feels that he is really the murderer. His visage shows despair, subject to detection by his cousin Elizabeth.
Victor finds the demon at Mount Blanc. The monster reminds him that he is his creation. The monster recounts to Victor his adventures in voyeurism. He surreptitiously assisted the cottagers upon whom he spied. He gathered wood for them. From them he became aware of language and began to note their poverty. The monster educated himself by means of the works of Goethe, Plutarch and Milton. By showing himself, the monster caused the family to depart.
He wants Victor to produce a female. Victor fears the disappointed fiend, but finds he cannot overcome his repugnance to make a mate for the creature. He is also faced with the duty and desire to wed his cousin, but he is conscious of the threat of death to his bride should he wed. Victor undergoes the death of his friend Clerval and imprisonment in Ireland. His fiendish adversary pursues him to the end. The finale is operatic. The doubling effect throughout the novel is masterly.
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