Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Chapters 24 to END.
Until this part of the story, I had forgotten that Victor was telling this story as a narrative to Robert Walton.
I realize that I was warned to keep that in mind throughout the story, but I thought it would be more fun to just disregard that request.
The end of the novel was in a way anticlimactic. Victor, for one, dies. Before he dies, however, he requests that Walton continues his hunt for the creature. Walton's crew wishes to go to England as soon as the ice clears. One night, Walton hears a noise coming from the room where Victor's body was being kept. Investigating, Walton found the creature, weeping over his creators' body.
"He paused, looking on me with wonder; and, again turning towards the lifeless form of his creator, he seemed to forget my presence, and every feature and gesture seemed instigated by the wildest rage of some uncontrollable passion" (Shelly, 163).
With no purpose or reason to live any longer, the creature states that without his creator or anyone associated with him left, the creature itself had no purpose left in the world. The creature seems to be begging for pardon from Victor, or maybe God, for his crimes and actions against humanity.
Walton does not eliminate the creature, but lets it go. The creature tells Robert of his woes and his story of his failure to control his impulse to cause Victor the misery that he had experienced in his life. The creature jumps ship into the cold water and disappears into the darkness.
I like stories like this. This story left no loose ends or open ended, for the most part, questions. Great read.
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