Franki!

After reading Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s biography I realized that she portrayed herself in some way because she grew up without her mother and she was rejected by her father. Probably the feeling of loneliness inspirited her to write Frankenstein.


Victor Frankenstein played with the power of nature even more he challenged the process of life and death and his obsession and ego led him to create this creature “Franki Jr.”. Sadly he didn’t think about the consequences of his actions and he didn’t care about his “son”, he just abandoned and rejected him as if he was an old toy.

Franki Jr. just wanted to know who his family was - his roots, he wanted to be loved and accepted. Everybody wants that, everybody wants to be part of the world. On the one hand he had feelings like a human being. On the other hand as a result of discrimination, abandon and injustice Franki Jr. behaved as a monster killing all the people who Victor loved. That was his revenge. Clearly Franki Jr. was not guilty of having born without a family, without someone who tells him what things are bad or good. For that reason the guilty person in this case was Victor, he caused all his own problems.

This reading made me think that sometimes all of us feel like Franki Jr. when we feel that we don’t belong to certain places, when we don’t feel loved, when we are discriminated, when we are disappointed, when we are not accepted for our clothes, beliefs or attitudes….