This book is good, I like it, and I just stopped reading it pretty much in the peak of the good part, where Victor just got married but has not seen the monster yet. I was wondering why Victor thought he was going to die on his wedding night, and not Elizabeth. This was jumping out of the page at me, and I would guess that Elizabeth is going to die in the near future. This would hurt Victor much more then his own death. Although for as sad as Victor seems, he is also very scared of his death. He has avoided it with the monster, and when he was in danger of dying out at sea, he was really scared as well. I am not sure, but I would think that if you were in that much self-caused pain, that it might be weird to still be terrified of death, almost as if he likes being in this misery and turmoil.
When the monster was telling his tale, one of his actions jumped out at me, and I think it happens in real life a lot. In sociology, they call it something like the labeling theory. The monster wanted to be loved by his "protectors," and wanted to be good to them. After the family sees the monster, Felix moves the family away from their cottage in fear of another encounter with the monster. The monster then continues to light the cottage on fire until it burns downs. The family would have heard about the cottage burning down, and thought they were right about moving away and the monster being awful. I think this happens a lot in general. If a teacher labels a kid a trouble maker, then a lot of times the kid figures that if he is already a trouble maker, why not be funny or whatever and cause trouble. Or if kids in a bad part of town are not expected to go to college, then there is no consequence if they put no effort forward and drop out of school.
Are Victor and the monster the same person? If so, why does Victor want to kill his loved ones?
-The word "wretch" is first found describing Victor by Walton when they find him n the beginning on the sled in the ice
-he describes the monster as a "wretch" as well
-he then describes that he spent the night wretchedly
-he uses the word a lot in general, now there are words like that too like "cool" ,"sick" or "gross". That dead thing is gross, or That's a gross hoody (means cool)
-his father describes the environment (which was created by the monster) that Victor would come home to as wretchedness because William died
-when Victor is going home, he says that he is destined to become the most wretched of human beings
-Elizabeth is described as thinking that she caused the murder, and that made her very wretched
-It seems to me that the word wretch follows the murderer around, so maybe they are the same person?
This is a very interesting thing to think about. Part of me thinks that there is no chance this is the case that they are the same person because of the fact that the monster tells about how he watched that family for a year, and things like that. Although Victor I guess could just imagine this, and imagine in is head some part of his inner self could be scaling mountains, which seemed like kind of a stretch anyways. The real flag to me though is his mother hurt him by dying. So why would Victor kill other people close to him? I do not think he would be protecting himself by killing loved ones since that is the way his mother hurt him so bad. I feel like he fears that the most, so I'm not sure why he would do that. I would think it would be better for him to just run away forever, or something like that.
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