I decided to make a website for this project because I wanted to be able to use photos to help illustrate my points. Using Weebly was not only more aesthetically pleasing than google sites, but it also had more elements that could be inserted into the website. A website is also more interesting than just writing an essay, and also more assessable.
At first I thought Frankenstein was going to just be a typical horror story, with Frankenstein as the monster that comes back from the dead (much like a man-made zombie) and haunts the villagers. However, after reading the novel I realized that Frankenstein is much more than just that. Not only are there more emotional and logical explanations to Frankenstein's monster's actions, but he also seems more "human" than Frankenstein himself. When Frankenstein's monster first came out to the world, he was quite child-like, wondering about the world and only wanting to make friends. He learned the hard way about the cruelties of the world, and that was what drove him to his actions later on in the novel. Frankenstein not only exploited his monster for his own good, but also didn't take responsibility for it. He blamed his creation for all the tragedies that befell him, but he didn't realize that it was mostly his fault for not teaching his creature what was right and what was wrong.
Back in the time Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the very idea of defying death and bringing something back from the dead is quite radical and horrifying. The extents to which Shelley describes the actions Frankenstein takes to obtain materials for his experiment is intended to strike fear in the readers. The reason why Frankenstein doesn't have that fear factor is because of how evolved the horror genre has become. There are much more gruesome ideas and movies than Frankenstein that have been produced and that we have come in contact with in one way or another, so Frankenstein isn't that much of a horror story.
The ideas presented in the novel are quite interesting, with the main character or hero not actually being the good guy. There are also much more to this story, with Justine's unjust killing and how this story helps convince Walton not to go on his journey to the North Pole no matter what. Frankenstein is less of a horror story than I thought and is actually more of a warning to people to not try to play God. Although I don't enjoy the horror genre, this story is an exception.
At first I thought Frankenstein was going to just be a typical horror story, with Frankenstein as the monster that comes back from the dead (much like a man-made zombie) and haunts the villagers. However, after reading the novel I realized that Frankenstein is much more than just that. Not only are there more emotional and logical explanations to Frankenstein's monster's actions, but he also seems more "human" than Frankenstein himself. When Frankenstein's monster first came out to the world, he was quite child-like, wondering about the world and only wanting to make friends. He learned the hard way about the cruelties of the world, and that was what drove him to his actions later on in the novel. Frankenstein not only exploited his monster for his own good, but also didn't take responsibility for it. He blamed his creation for all the tragedies that befell him, but he didn't realize that it was mostly his fault for not teaching his creature what was right and what was wrong.
Back in the time Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the very idea of defying death and bringing something back from the dead is quite radical and horrifying. The extents to which Shelley describes the actions Frankenstein takes to obtain materials for his experiment is intended to strike fear in the readers. The reason why Frankenstein doesn't have that fear factor is because of how evolved the horror genre has become. There are much more gruesome ideas and movies than Frankenstein that have been produced and that we have come in contact with in one way or another, so Frankenstein isn't that much of a horror story.
The ideas presented in the novel are quite interesting, with the main character or hero not actually being the good guy. There are also much more to this story, with Justine's unjust killing and how this story helps convince Walton not to go on his journey to the North Pole no matter what. Frankenstein is less of a horror story than I thought and is actually more of a warning to people to not try to play God. Although I don't enjoy the horror genre, this story is an exception.