The Resolution

"I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell" (pg 211).

Oh my lanta!! I admit...this book was decently boring up until the last two chapters. I want to know what the heck Walton was going on in Walton's mind when he was faced with this story of two monsters (other than what was said in the letters of course). If I were him, I would feel like I was in some sort of dream. Not only did he randomly find this dude who created life with this bare hands...but he found the creation, too, which had killed off all of the creator's family. Insanity. After reading the last chapter, I had trouble deciding whose side I was on in the end: Victor or the monster? Honestly, I think that they ended up having the same personality. They were both benevolent people to begin with. Victor worked hard in his studies and cared deeply for his family, but ended up being alone and miserable in the end. The monster desired to learn language and love from the cottagers, but he ended up being alone and miserable in the end, too. The novel seemed like a big long description of the two characters chasing each other around, trying to get revenge. To be honest, they could have been each other's good friends had they given the other the chance. I enjoyed the book for the most part; however, the complaining and whining about misery grew old after awhile.