Frankenstein Chapters 5-8

   In chapter 5 of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I noticed the allusion to Dante which was made. After retiring to bed to sleep trying to forget about the horrors of just creatung a monster, Frankenstein sees the creature in his room. "He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me,"(Shelley,35). The shock of Frankenstein's face-to-face encounter of the creature upon waking up frigtened him so that after fleeing from the home, he regards the monster as something "..even Dante could not have conceived,"(Shelley,36). This allusion signifies the nastiness and evilness the creature must have withheld to be so terrible not even Dante, who having been in the fires of hell, could have imagined. This allusion furthered the image of Frankenstein and his hideousness. Continuing on past chapter 5, I noticed the toll that creating the monster had on Frankenstein, who later came to the conclusion that his creation was the murderer of his brother William. Frankenstein, assuring Elizabeth the death was not her fault, but rather another's, found it hard to explain that the monster was at fault. Frankenstein didn't want others to know about his experiment. But, secretly, Frankenstein was being eaten alive by the guilt he felt for creating the monster which lead to such terribleness. In Frankenstein's low state, I noticed the mood which describes how depressed Frankenstein became. "I cannot describe what I then felt. I had before experienced sensations of horror; and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endure,"(Shelley,57). The use of words such as "heart-sickening" reveal Frankenstein's despair over what he believes to be his fault. Frankenstein seems to be at his lowest because throughout chapter 8, I notice more negative tone. "But I, the true murderer, felt the never dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation,"(Shelley, 59). Frankenstein feels pain which he compares to a pestering worm which lives within him. Overall, I don't believe Frankenstein should blame himself for his curiosity going wrong which developed a horror.