Romantic and Victorian Literature
Karina Cortez Hernández
Socorro Cristoforo Ochoa
3’A Semester
October 22, 2012
Journal 1: First Feelings
The first chapters of the novel describe and set up for the plot of the novel. Without the first chapters we would not be able to see why everything happens later in the novel. I really like the first few chapters and how Victor Frankenstein describes his childhood and his life with his family. It is good to see that even with a good family Victor still has problems that lead to the creation of the monster.
I really do not like the characters of the story a lot. I like them, and how the author describes and creates them, and gives them all a specific personality. Yet, I do not like the characters as people. I do not like Victor. From the beginning of the story we see that he makes everything about him. He loves his family, but when his family needs him he is not there for them. He is so busy making the monster because he wants to succeed that he forgets his family. The women in the novel, I also do not like. They are so passive in the novel. The mother and Elizabeth are not strong characters, so it makes me think that the author was not a strong woman. Victor feels like he owns them, and that is also why I do not like him. Henry Clerval is another character in the novel, him I like. He seems more real; because he lives life more simply not like his friend Victor. He is also a symbol of something that is pure. When Victor sees him, he reminds him of home, and his family. This means that Henry is a character that knows what he wants, he does not want fame like Victor he just wants to be happy.
