Fiction Reviews: Frankenstein

 

Frankenstein and the modern Prometheus starts with a series of letters written by a young adventurer, Robert Walton to his sister Mrs. Saville.

In these letters is described the difficulties to reach the North Pole through a vessel. He wants to uncover the scientific secrets of the North Pole.

The Frankenstein family is altruistic, Victor Frankenstein thinks that he can do something for others, he wants to penetrate the secrets of nature to give life.

Victor has reached his goal, he has created a living being, through a thunderbolt. 

Victor decides to abandon his creature; he is completely alone.

He wanders through the countryside and finds refuge in a farmhouse inhabited by poor people. Here he will begin to know the human being.

His main desire is to be accepted; he wants a family to discuss a poem that he has appreciated enormously, Paradise Lost, written by Milton.

He believes to be Satan.

The creature asks its creator for a mate, the proposal will be denied, one wants to kill the other.