Well, this criticism was really something. There was just so much information packed into these 30 or so pages, but nonetheless it really intrigued me. I have been learning about Freud in other classes so it was neat to see how classes do overlap. The most interesting part to me was the fact that sometimes our writing is often portrayal about personalities within us. I never thought of this, but in all honesty sometimes people write like who they were, who they are, or who they would like to become as a person and a writer.
Now moving on to the "meat", so often times we overlook the fact that Victor did approve of his creation ( for a short moment, of course). I liked how the criticism made note of that because human nature is to remember the negative over the positive. What finally clicked while reading this was the fact that Victor was creating himself but after the monster opened his eyes, Victor regretted making the monster immediately. Victor does not see himself as the monster and then he wants to destroy it. He desired to create someone for himself that resembled himself. A down scaled example would be simply in writing. We put our hearts, breathe, and time in creating something beautiful but after seeing the final product sometimes we just want to start over. This is difficult in the case of creating a human being from dead corpses, don't you think?
On an ending note, I just want to point out one of my favorite quotes from the excerpt : "We read all the stories in the novel as if a hand is over our eyes, too, and at any moment it will be lifted and the novel will transform from something read into something seen --- perhaps someone seen in a mirror."(page 293) Often times I correlate what I am reading with people I know, and this is an interesting thought to ponder. Do you guys ever relate what you are reading to reality? To yourself?
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Yes, I usually try and relate whay I read to reality, and that helps me to comprehend it in its entirety.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you in saying our human nature is to remember the negative over the positive. Many times we often overlook the things that have helped us in life and just concentrate on the rough parts of life. But it is those rough times that have made us into the people we are today.
Wow Holly! It weird that we chose nearly the exact same thing to write about in our blogs! What do you think it is that caught our attention not only to Victor actually liking the monster originally, but also comparing Frued and the others to previous classes? You said it before but I will say it again, we really do think alike!
ReplyDeleteAnyway I would like to say that often I do relate what I read to what I know in reality. Often I relate a character to someone I know. Often in stories I see faults in characters and either recognize the same fault in myself or in someone I have encountered in my life.
Tesia-
ReplyDeleteYou always look on the brighter side of things :) Reality and reading, in my opinion, do mingle together in my mind.
Kathryn- I know we really do think alike :0) I think the fact that the same thing was being taught caught our attention and we had one of those light bulb moments. Like you, I tend to relate people with books I read. When I was younger, I would honestly get confused with reality and the books I read where I placed people in the positions of characters in the book!
ReplyDeleteThats so true about how people write and the way they do so.As a writer I tend to make my charcters out to be what i would never see myself do in real life. I think it's scary for one to create a new life out of an old life, not to mention it's playing with creation. in the end victor had a mess on his hand as a result. I too have read novels where if good and captivating I've gone on with my day in my mind as if i"m one of the charcters from the story. I have to remind myself it wasn't me, it never happend and that it was only a book, right? Thats why i love to read because although it's not real for that moment it is and no one can bring me out of my fairy tale.;
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