Life
Mysterious, comprehensible
Challenging, conceiving, creating
Accomplishment, triumph, miscreation, tragedy
Avenging, destroying, retrogressing
Painful, regretful
Death
This poem is based on the character of Victor Frankenstein in his quest to create life. Frankenstein attempts to play God. However, he succeeds not in creating a life that is truly human but rather in a monster full of evil that destroys him and his family. His accomplishment turns out to be a great tragedy. His life becomes a continuous chase to find the monster so he could destroy it. It turns out that the monster is also chasing Frankenstein and in the end kills him. Only God can create life in his own likeness.
The Prometheus Monster
Hopefulness
Coping, fitting
Desiring, seeking, wishing
Acceptance, integration, disdain, rejection
Hating, raging, killing
Isolated, lonely
Hopelessness
Victor Frankenstein’s creation turned out to be an evil monster. Its attempts to fit in to society were always shaded by evil motives and were simultaneously met with rejection. It destroys its creator and people close to the man. It would seem though that the monster may have actually hoped and tried to integrate itself into the community. Unfortunately, the monster was something that seemed to be inherently evil so everything he does turns out bad. As everything turns out hopeless, the monster becomes a rampaging beast looking for Frankenstein whom he wants to destroy. It succeeds in doing so. At the same time, it succeeds in destroying everything that could have given it hope. The monster ends up lost and isolated and floating on an ice floe in the arctic sea, an image of isolation and loneliness.
Works Cited
Opp-Beckman, Leslie. Description for Diamante Poems. 2010. University of Oregon, Linguistics Department, American English Institute. Web. 22 Feb 2013.
Shelly, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Ed. Jim Manis. Pennsylvania State University, 1998. PDF, Web. 22 Feb 2013.
