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Compare with
Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born
Remember that this is Satan’s goal. Satan is trying to prove to God that Job was only faithful because he had a good life. So Satan did everything he could in order to make him curse God.
Remember also that the wretch has identified with Milton’s Satan, the outcast.
So he’s fulfilling his role here, paralleling Satan in the story of Job.
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…Yeah, that’s not good.
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Nature is mirroring the wretch’s disposition- but it also affects his disposition.
Who could blame him for being miserable in that weather?
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We still don’t know if the wretch killed William.
Shelley does a good job of keeping the reader interested without sacrificing clarity.
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Once again, the wretch shows his thoughtfulness.
I know that at times when I bore a hell within me, I didn’t stop for reflection on my situation.
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OK this is where these annotations really come in handy.
Remember way back in chapter 2 when Frankenstein witnessed an oak tree destroyed by lightning?
As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
Frankenstein witnessed the tree destroyed, and he fell in love with science. He used this knowledge without thinking things through, and he ended up creating a horrible wretch who has wreaked havoc on people now.
We’re all horrified at what the wretch has done, but it isn’t as different from what Frankenstein did as you might think. Both used their knowledge to harm people. (And both used fire and trees.)
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Many brilliant people can probably relate to this.
Schopenhauer locked himself in his room and wrote an entire essay on how much he hated other people’s noise: On Noise
Beethoven used to throw things at his servants. As he went deaf, he went a bit mad. Oh, and composed his famous Ninth Symphony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOw0R03BuCE
Lord Byron, whom Mary Shelley knew well, wrote beautiful poetry like “She Walks in Beauty”… and had a pet bear. Enough said.
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You can’t help but feel deep sympathy for the wretch.
Frankenstein created him and abandoned him basically because he is ugly…