Frankenstein
Do you dislike living in an atmosphere of suspense, murder and terror?
If so, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a book you’ll want to avoid
reading. This book takes you on a journey that’ll make you hold your
breath, but intrigue you to see what happens next.
Frankenstein is a story of murder, revenge and the supernatural. It tells
the story of a scientist Victor Frankenstein who’s gifted with pure wide
scientific knowledge that he uses it to give life to a being of his own
creation. However, this being isn’t the perfect creature he imagined it
to be, but rather a hideous ugly creature that is later rejected by both
Victor, his own creator, and the society. For that, this creature seeks
revenge upon people and Victor through merciless killings, resulting in
Victor losing his beloved ones one by one. Frankenstein’s selfish and
greedy misuse of his knowledge ended up being the reason for him
losing his family and friends, and eventually his own death.
The thing that I most enjoyed about this book is that aside from it being
a warning to not mess with the natural order like victor tried to
challenge God, it held a strong moral message about not to let greed
control our actions, and how dangerously impactful it can be to not
consider one’s negative actions. Also, this book reflects how loneliness
and rejection from society can be so effective that they’d drive a person
to become bad, just as happened with the monster, who’s good
character was rather poisoned after his creator and society neglected
him for his ugly appearance. When the monster decides to seek
revenge he says: “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled
my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be
borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death”.
I personally recommend this book because it is such an exciting read. The
dark themes of death, revenge and greed follow the reader throughout the
story, so if you’re a gothic/thriller books reader, you’d certainly love this book.