Frankenstein (blog 2)

The next section of Frankenstein portrays the mood change of the novel from what was once an informative diary to something with a little bit more tragedy and horror. Victor pursues his knowledge more than any other aspect of his social life. He gains all the knowledge he can get before his curious mind takes over. After that, we learn that Victor isolates himself from the world for several months becoming completely obsessed with his creation that his overly eager mind had conjured up. This monster that Victor pieces together, I believe it to be an evil twin to his subconscious because he lived this pretty much picture perfect childhood and this thing that is created is something so opposite from him and anything human in general. When Victor finally decides to spark this puppy to life the result terrifies him and is utterly horrifying. He tries to go to sleep but is haunted with harrowing nightmares from the abomination that he has brought to life. I believe the nightmares to symbolize this opposite subconscious that I was talking about, Victor can’t handle what he made because it is foreshadowing the death of Elizabeth (as we find out to be very ill in the future), not to mention the horror of the whole situation. He awakes with this thing standing over him with this devilish smile and runs out of his apartment, screaming like a girl I can imagine. Who can blame him though? Because I know for a fact that if any one of you woke up with this thing standing over the top of you, you might just freak out to!
Victor wants to escape from the evil genius scientific world that he has created. Very quickly, he falls extremely ill. But almost if by fate, a close friend of his finds him and nurses him back to health, his name is Henry.

Henry came to Ingolstadt to study science just like Victor and brings him back into the realm of sciences that Victor was trying to escape from. This brings back all the memories of the horrific monster that has tormented him for so long. However, Henry also brought good with him. He brought Victor back into the social world and is caring towards him. I believe that Henry would be the foil to Victor for that reason alone.

Further into the novel, we learn that Henry receives a letter from his sister Elizabeth while he was sick. In this letter she tells us that after the death of their mother, an old family member has moved back in with them, Justine Moritz. The story gets a little crazier when Justine is accused of murdering Victor’s brother William. He goes for a walk to try and clear his head and sees the monster looming about the location where William’s body was found. At that moment, Victor knows that Justine is in fact innocent and the monster must be responsible for the horrible death of William. However, he doesn’t want to tell anyone this because he is afraid that everyone will see him as insane. So were just going to have to keep going to see what his reaction is to help save Justine.