Frankenstein-live-blogging

It's such a interesting read. It's a real conundrum about the real nature of evil and to what extent can we call what we do justice. And, after all, what's justice and what's revenge.

But, while this was happening it went through my mind: who's wrong, who's right, and what's justice in fact?

The Creature's desire for companionship in the form of someone just like him is understandable, since he can't fullfil his wish with the humans that reject him.

Having said that, I see it as a last ditch effort to find happiness, an effort that could never work.

First of all, his descend into despair and immorality was tragic, but not really unexpected.

The Creatures was, to all intents and purposes, a human being, except for 1 thing that set him apart: his "monstrous" appearance. That was enough to isolate him from society, what, again, not surprising, but very sad.

His journey/life starts with his first and most devastating rejection: the repulse of his Creator, Victor Frankenstein. He was, of course, too young and innocent to understand what was happening at the time, but it still was a shaping moment, what he, himself, comprehends later in his life.

During his early stages, The Creature lived in the wild don't really knowing anything, just following his instintics and making simple deductions about the world. He still didn't know anything about morals, good, evil or violence, he was pure and naive.

His first conscious rejection was met at a village, where he, again, never really did anything bad, but was still rejected based in appearances. That's his first encounter with violence and with what the book calls "human nature" (I don't really agree with the book's concept of human nature, but it's still very interesting to read). He's attacked with rocks and escapes before a mob is formed.

This event traumatizes him, making him reluctant to engage in more human contact, but doesn't really make him feel angry or vengeful. He's still too innocent, he doesn't understand why they attacked him and what that says about his future in the big picture.

And now we finally are at stalking stage. The Creature observes the life of a family through the walls of their house, he's intrigued by them and their virtues and from them he learns to speak, read, politics, geography, morals and much more, finally starting to understand society.

BUT! Now that his ignorance's leaving, giving space to understanding, he's beginning to form a concept of self-identity. He's comprehending the others, but also himself, and that discovery leaves space to the evil of all things: comparison.

He sees the things that all humans but him have - family, friends, lovers, infancy, etc - and the differences between their physical aspects and feels a deep sense of despair and alienation. Now there's a He and a Them, two different categories that could never be the same.

He thinks back on his Creator and wonders: if even the closest thing he had for a parent offered nothing but abandonment, how could anyone with no societal obligation learn to love him.

Despite all that, The Creature still has hope, hope in the virtuous family that he'd been observing now for one year, I believe. In this time he developed a parasocial relationship with them, what's understandable, since they're the only thing between him and complete loneliness.

He sees this family was his own Holy Grail, all his hopes and dreams depend entirely in their acceptance of his "deformity" and when this acceptance didn't came was when he begun to understand the appel of violence, the urge for revenge and the true consuming feeling of anger and injustice.

It's here that he understands that there's no hope for his future among the human race and it's where he decides to go back to his origins, to his Creator, to Victor.

It's a long way, and the lack of human contact and the beauty of nature ends up calming The Creature, but at this moment the narrative decides to, again, punish him for daring to feel happy and hopeful.

No good deed goes unpunished, and his decision to save a drowning girl ends with a bullet hole. THIS is his breaking point, THAT is when he accepts that a creature such as himself will never have a place in society, at least through his perspective and his past experiences.

In a last desperate tentative to form a human conection The Creature tries to kidnap a child, hoping to raise this child to love him, but the kid's afraid of him and he drops his dad's name while trying to escape.

It's pure bad luck that that kid ends up being William, Victor's younger brother, and because of this he is killed by The Creature in name of revenge.

At this point The Creature has no more care for virtue or goodness, he wants Victor to suffer just a he suffered. He don't see himself as part of the human race (again, the categorization of He and Them as two different things) and don't feel the need to offer mercy to them, seeing as they've offered nothing but violence and ruthlessness to him.

We never really knew much about William, but the death of a child's enough of a tragedy on its own. Everyone's devasted and Victor finally goes home, only to find out that the culprit's a family friend, Justine

Or is she? The night before Victor saw The Creature lurking in the crime scene and immediately drew his own conclusions about the identity of the assassin

The only clue the assassin left behind was a missing necklace, found in Justine's possession. She's condemned to death while claiming innocence

We don't get a confirmation of who was the real culprit in these chapters, but Victor's convinced that The Creature he created was his brother's murderer and, therefore, Victor was the one who indirectly killed William and Justine

You can also see Victor's egocentrism through the chapters, when he continues to put his own negative feeling above Justine's. She's the victim of this entire situation, but Victor still says that her suffering doesn't measure up to his

I still don't know enough about Captain Walton to form a opinion, so I'm mostly indifferent, but sure that he's gay for Victor

The Creature didn't really did anything until now so I'm, like, vaguely sympathetic about him

Henry's perfect, he's my baby, he deserves the world, I want to be his friend. He loves Victor but I don't feel like it's romantic, I see them as really close friends. Victor doesn't deserve him

Elizabeth needs a bigger role, more agency and more self-esteem, but I really like her and want to know more about her

The same way that Victor sees her almost as an ornament that bring others lightness and happiness, she seems to also see herself like that

Her interests don't mather, to her they're meaningless, not having the same weight as the intellectual and military pursuits of the ones around her

She loves and misses Victor, and they're really close, but in her letter all she talks about are the interests, life and changes of other people, people that Victor never even mentioned and don't comment on after reading. She never give details about the changes in her life and her interests