Frankstein Articlee.

My reaction to the article about the novel, Frankenstein, is that Christopher Schildt had a vaild point. Schildt's thoughts as to what Mary Shelley based the novel on made much more sense then the common opinion of most people.
"Mary Shelley was writing about the suffering and loss and pain, the feeling of being ostracized, that I think she knew very well (Schildt)."
Schildt had stated this in the beginning of the article and while thinking back to the novel and Mary Shelley's past, it made much more sense for her to being writing about such pain and great loss rather than the evils of science. It makes much more sense because Mary Shelley went through severe loss and heartache herself, such as, her mother passing away just ten days after Mary was born, therefore, she never got the chance to know her own mother; having to go through school and life itself without her, and being forced to see happy families and girls with their mothers. This had to of brought great pain to Mary Shelley, as it would to anyone. Mary Shelley's father was also not someone who was easily pleased, being a repressive patriach with rigid belief in his own rightness, therefore, Mary dealt with the stress of her father, and the feeling of never being good enough in his eyes.
Finally feeling like she had a break from the pain and suffering, Mary married a man named Percy, but, unfortunately for Mary, only one of the three children they had together, survived to adulthood.
Mary Shelley spent her whole life suffering, even when she started to feel as if she was breaking free from her suffering, it was soon taken away and suffering came knocking on her door once again. Therefore, Mary Shelley must have had similar feelings that the creature felt and was able to relate to the creature in many ways and occasions. Mary Shelley could have been expressing how she felt her entire life through the creature, such as, needing someone to be there, just so they did not feel so alone and hurt. Just like how the creature asked for a companion:
"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrbile as myself would not deny herself to me (Shelley 133)."
Here, the creature is almost begging Victor, his creator, for someone who he can love and be loved back in return. He feels ostracized, much like how Mary Shelley felt throughout her lifetime, and just wanted someone who they know will always be there. Someone who accepts them for who they are and still loves every part of them.
In conclusion, Christopher Schildt had a valid point:
"It's just easier for us to say that the movie moves us because it's about the faults of science, rather than saying it appeals to me because sometimes I feel hunted and lonely and ostracized, too (Schildt)."
In the end, when you look around, you cannot see the pain that every person has gone through or is going through, but no matter what, no matter how different we may be from each other, or how similar we might be, one thing that is certain is that we all suffer, we all feel alone at some point in our life. We all know how it feels to be in a crowded room, but yet feel like you are all alone. The feeling of pain.