Emi’s Reviews > Frankenstein > Status Update

Round four. Excited as ever.

"For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self."

(the way this woman describes insurmountable experiences,,,,,,,,,)

it wasn't enough that this book is stuffed full of innuendo about nature, birth, creation, gods, nooooo the creature had to go and find a copy of paradise lost. milton won't leave me alone

how does this woman write a horror story and somehow still manage to make me cry-

"the reader is left after a struggle between laughter and loathing, in doubt whether the head or the heart of the author be most diseased. Such venomous comment came, not because the book failed to inculcate a lesson of conduct, manners or morality– its moral lesson that pride must have its fall be obvious to the most indifferent reader."

FUCK. i'm sorry. this woman warps the concept of monstrosity SO WELL

here we go again (for the third time). the book that made me violently change career paths.

but this time it's for class