Frankenstein 2

In short, Frankenstein is a story about a man who was obsessed with life, and decided to create his own. His curiosity into this subject lead to his discovery of the secret of life, which is never revealed to us. He lives in fear of the monster, who goes off to live his own life. But, on the way to living a 'normal life', the monster kills off members of his creator's, Victor, family. Victor realizes this, and eventually is confronted by the monster, who is seeking partnership. Victor, in a backwards threatening kind of way, agrees to make another monster. He runs away to Scotland to create the female, yet when he reaches near completion, he decides against it, realizing his previous mistake. The monster is furious and eventually they chase each other back and forth across the arctic promising to kill each other. On one of the runs across the ice, Victor meets a sailor, to whom he recounts the whole story to, and who later buries Victor. I'm not sure if, at this end, I like the book. I was certainly surprised, that's for sure, continually by the way that this one event, the creation, pretty much ruined Victor's life. He set out to do something grand, something earth-shattering, but ends up with the exact opposite; an abnormal if horrendous end. His greed and judgement prevent him from ever finding happiness.