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Frankenstien (4) (Tales of mystery and Horror)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Hunter said: " What I liked about this book was that Mary Shelley gave the characters excellent descriptions of how they look, feel, live, etc. This caused me to enjoy the book more and relate to it easily. An example of this would be when Victor says, “His yellow What I liked about this book was that Mary Shelley gave the characters excellent descriptions of how they look, feel, live, etc. This caused me to enjoy the book more and relate to it easily. An example of this would be when Victor says, “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but this luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes.” (Shelley 43). What I would recommend for this book is that when Frankenstein and the monster first meet on the hill I would have liked that scene to be longer and more intense and engaging. Mary Shelley did a good job of explaining scenes and making them very interesting, but I thought some scenes could have used more work.
What I didn’t like about was the writing style. Mary Shelley wrote this during the Romantic era, meaning some scenes were very lengthy in descriptions. She could have got to the chase of using 1 or 2 descriptive words instead of 4 or 5. I found it very difficult to connect to the story because Victor and the monster had a really hard time throughout their lives. Dealing with emotional conflicts, internal conflicts, not fitting in, etc. The book was just depressing, and I don’t like books like that. Too many scenes with depression in them. Victor could never find happiness and was always in this sense of guilt and loneliness. Same for the monster, he was always treated horribly and never fit in wherever he went. The book is too depressing for me to enjoy.
I learned a lot of things from this book including, writing techniques, word choice, How it was during the Romantic Era, and how consequences have actions. Victor throughout the whole story has to deal with the consequences of his action of creating the monster. The monster haunted Victor by killing all the people he loved and cherished by the end of the novel. This caused Victor to go into a bad mental state, and it was clearly shown throughout Mary Shelley's writing. ...more "

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