So we've reached the point in the novel when Victor finally comes face to face with his creation for the first time since he was created. What did you think of the way Victor reacted and talked to the monster? What about how the monster responded? Who do you agree with?
Was anyone else suprised by how smart and eloquent and LOGICAL the monster was?
Go creation!!
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I was shocked that the monster could not only talk, but talk well. I also thought that Victor was being a whiny little baby. I get that the monster (that he CREATED) was scary-looking, but it also seemed to speak in a level-headed manner. It can't be all that bad.
And isn't this supposed to be a horror story? I'm not scared...
I totally agree with the monster. He is right that VF has a responsibility to him and needs to fulfill this. VF was only thinking about himself and how bad his life has been due to the monster but he didnt ever think of how bad the monster's life was due to him. It was a surprise how well the monster could speak and how logically he could think. I think this makes him seem more human and makes the reader more sympathetic towards him.
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maybe the horror of the story is behind everything....the "horror" is that he actually created life. that it is actually possible. Now it isn't near as scary as the thought of it was back then but still.....or the horror could be that the "monster" that he created has a mind of its own and can't be controlled. It's its own person just like you or me but wasn't "created" like a normal person. Maybe the horror in this book isn't the scary movie type horror but the power that humans are gaining and what we can do with it type of horror. idk...just a thought.
Bravo Vanessa. I think that makes perfect sense, and it's totally true. "Horror" as we know it today has changed a lot since this book was published. Plus our society has become rather desensitized.
I suppose that's possible, but it did win a "scariest book" competition. I just wish it was, you know, scary.
Two years, it took the monster two years to learn to reason. And he was made from parts and pieces of other things. This is an impossibility.
Then he goes and finds out where Victor lives, figures out who is family is and starts picking them off? I don't think so.
These things are scary. Otherwise, nothing seems to be happening. Everything is circumstantial. The monster's reaction is overdramatic as is Victor's.
The characters simply aren't believable.
heh..maybe all the other stories in the contest sucked...a lot
thanks! i dont think rather desensitized is the right word for it. we put things out like the saw movies and call it entertainment. society today has just become extremely demented. scary doesnt really begin to describe what we do today....back to the book: another thought, maybe this book is about the horror that Victor faces bc he created this monster....it's his horror story, not a story to scare people?
to comment on alyssa's comment; humans find anything that they dont understand or cant control "scary" so maybe this book won bc it was about something that they could neither control nor fathom.....this was not a creation that they could control and maybe the thought of it coming to life (people's imaginations tend to work overtime sometimes) was extremely scary to me. i mean if i created something that all of a sudden got a lot smarter than it was supposed to i might be a little scared too....
At the time this book was written, it probably was a frightening book. Now, with Stephen King, slasher movies, and science fiction, there's nothing in this book that we haven't seen before. Desensitization takes away the shock factor.
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