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  1. Mar 2023
    1. ven thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good—misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

      The creature says that it should be Adam but however it instead has become the devil yet Adam still committed a sin along Eve. This means in a sense the creature is indeed Adam. Adam did the sin of eating the apple and the creature committed the sin of killing. Furthermore because it has already killed due to misery who is to say that one day upon feeling a fit of rage that the creature would not kill again. How can it truly guarentee that it shall remind virtuous and swear of its murderous habits.

    2. I rose early, but felt unusually melancholy. The rain depressed me; my old feelings recurred, and I was miserable. I knew how disappointed my father would be at this sudden change, and I wished to avoid him until I had recovered myself so far as to be enabled to conceal those feelings that had overpowered me.

      I do not understand why Victor believed that his father would be disappointed in his mood change. does his father expect him to be happy everyday of his life. Does he not expect his son to feel down once in a while. Moreover wouldn't his father be more concerned about why his son is so down in the dumps. furthermore I think his father would be disappointed in not being able to see his son longer after all this time. It just seems to me Victor has his feelings mixed up.

    3. 'Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid from its very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

      The film spawned a cottage industry of sequels, including Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939), as well as multiple remakes. Scenes that were originally cut or censored from the film, such as the prologue and the drowning scene with the young girl, have since been restored. Makeup artist Jack Pierce, who was responsible for the monster’s distinctive look, went on to create the costumes for several other famous Universal Pictures creatures, including the title characters in The Mummy (1932) and The Wolf Man (1941). https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankenstein-film-by-Whale It is interesting to note how in the novel the creature compares itself to Satan but not in the way as being alike but more of envy as even the great evil that is Satan had allies. Be it other devils but at the very least he had someone on his side to admire and encourage him yet still the creature had nothing just pure loneliness. It's also interesting to see that in the films based on the book the creature would have a wive and even a son be created and then on other monsters would come into exist such as the mummy and the wolf man.

    4. sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathising with my feelings, and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows, or shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator; but where was mine? he had abandoned me, and, in the bitterness of my heart, I cursed him

      According to the lengthier Yahwist (J) narrative of the 10th century BCE (Genesis 2:5–7, 2:15–4:1, 4:25), God, or Yahweh, created Adam at a time when the earth was still void, forming him from the earth’s dust and breathing “into his nostrils the breath of life.” God then gave Adam the primeval Garden of Eden to tend but, on penalty of death, commanded him not to eat the fruit of the “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Subsequently, so that Adam would not be alone, God created other animals but, finding these insufficient, put Adam to sleep, took from him a rib, and created a new companion, Eve. The two were persons of innocence. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-and-Eve-biblical-literary-figures Here the monster or Frankenstein's creation is referring Adam and Even from the Bible and how God created Eve from Adams rib so that he could have a companion and not be alone. Yet the creature has no companion. No one to ease its pain nor get rid of its loneliness. Furthermore though Adam could beg his creator for their forgiveness how could it? They knew not where their creator had gone, they just knew their God had left them behind to fend for themselves. To learn and teach for themselves. Due to this they would curse not only their existence but their creator as well.