I FOUND MY QUOTE IN FANKENSTEIN!!!

"That the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard."

I chose this quote because I do not wholly understand it. It makes me very sad (at least the part that I believe to understand about it) because it says that once something is familiar and dear to you... it loses its jive. That once we 'get used' to something, it doesn't just stop being new, but stops BEING at all. To think that we could really be as simple of creatures that we need things to change, to become better, brighter, bigger and faster just to keep us happy, is humiliating. We have lost the beauty of consistency and traded it for insecurity. We found out that if you change things too fast, or too slow, people are never happy. And then they become discontent with the few things in their lives that stay constant, like the color of a persons' eyes or the tones of their voice. We have become creatures that need to be entertained, need to be spoon fed entertainment from different ways of life. We must be told what to wear, when to wear it, and how to wear it. What to watch, when to go to school, when to wake up in the morning. Who we should be friends with and how we should treat our friends. What choices make us cool, and what the definition of 'cool' is in the first place. Our world has us under its belt, and makes us think in a certain way which makes us forget the simple beauties of small consistent things that we had once loved. Sad... but true.

So that is what I got out of the quote... anyone else get something???

Fame Monster

Today we were talking so much about monsters that I got the song Fame Monster by Lady Gaga stuck in my head. I began realizing how many celebratities suffer like Victor did. Pushed to succeed and consumed by fame they begin losing touch with other important parts of the world. Fame is a monster. Look what it did to Princess Di and Heath Ledger. The fame of these individuals was brought on by themselves and became destructive. I think we all can create something that destroys easier than we realize.

Frankenstein! Bwahahaa. (All said with an extreme russian/italtian/german accent)

I think I'm starting to creep my mother out. I'm been reading Frankenstein and I decided to take a break because after about 3 chapters I started to get a headache...anyway I realized how fun it is to say "Frankenstein! Bwhahaha" in this extreme awful accent. It truly is fun...go ahead and try it! But besides the funness of saying "Frankenstein! Bwhahaha" I really am enjoying Frankenstein. Right now, I feel bad for the creature. However, I believe that my sympathy for the characters may change as the book continues. But the creature didn't ask to be a monster or look horrible. He wanted to be loved and cared for and instead Victor ran away abandoned him. It reminds me of those children who are abused or have a bad childhood and then they end in bad situations or in prison even if they started out with good intentions. Okay, I don't know if that made sense at all...but it also reminds of the phrase "No good deed goes unpunished." Both Victor and the creature started with good intentions and then their lives became more miserable and in a way they became punished.

Connection

So this whole thing about Justine being falsely accused for the murder reminded me alot of that story "To Kill a Mockingbird". The black guy (can't remember his name) gets wrongly accused of rape. Also, the mystery behind the plot of both stories is very similar. Atticus and Victor play similar roles...kind of weird.

pain?

Today in brit lit we all had to get on the floor and share. I wasn't sure how to position myself. If I should sit up or lay down. I found that sitting up was very uncomfortable, so I layed on the floor. I also found that laying on the floor is very uncomfortable and this is why I titled this post... pain.

P.S. I really dont enjoy complaining but whatever you have to do to get a blog post right?

poor justine..

Justine got the short end of the stick for sure. She was, like we talked about in class, a victim of Victor's ignorance. It was obvious that Victor knew the severity of his mistake, he was just choosing to keep it to himself and not trying to make amends. A quote on the bottom of page 65 illustrates this pretty well, it says, "every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see every one else predujiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing." In class we talked about how Victor is in actuality a good person, but for some reason, I feel like I need to disagree. I feel like he is extremely selfish and almost heartless. How could he stand by, and allow an innocent human being be accused and punished for a crime that was caused by him.. ?