Frankenstein ~ Week 2

This part of the book simply amazed me. It is honestly true that you can not judge a book until you have read it, as proven in Frankenstein. Victor seems to resemble Shakespeare's character, Hamlet, in one of his most popular tragedies. Victor contemplates the idea of suicide (with Hamlet reciting the infamous quote, "To be, or not to be") but turns away with the reminder of his relatives. Hamlet also shuns suicide with the thought of his lover, Ophelia, whom later ironically commits a questionable suicide, herself. Anyway, Victor and Hamlet find themselves with little to cling to, but those who are dead and gone.
The part that really shocked me was when Victor and his creation have an almost pleasant conversation with each other. Now, I am well aware that a talk with a grotesque creature in a freezing ice cave is far from a tea-with-granny kind of pleasant, but they actually held a reasonable conversation. The fact that the creature is so naive yet intelligent (contradictory description, there?) is unbelievable. We picture in our minds a tall green monster who simply moans and walks about with no reasoning at all. But rather, this mysterious person/invention teaches both Victor, and the reader, that we look at life the wrong way. It tells it's creator that humans work so hard in life to receive simple material things of physical value, yet no one is truly happy in the long run.
This book has opened my eyes to the theme of spawn teaching master, not master teaching spawn. Life is about taking pride in accomplishments, rather than taking short-lived pride in what's in your pocket. The book in itself can show us that viewing something stereotypically is not the correct way to go about doing things. Frankenstein is in fact an odd character of great wisdom, not a lime-colored killer.
Well, that is all I've taken out of the book so far, and I can't wait to read more.
Sayonara!