Sonnet: Day and Night

Sonnet

Day and Night

By: Andie Kohrs

Leaves are falling as the transition is ending.

Warm breezy days turn to cold bitter nights.

Upon the trees, no bird songs are ringing 

Sunset has fadeth, leaving the stars to nourish light.

Twlight of the morning bringeth no mournful dark

With ease comes the light, stronger than the wind

Which growls heavily like a large dog bark.

The dark is withheld so thou day moves with bend. 

That glowing in the distance is perceivest by the fire.

Fields grow tired of thee ashes trickling down.

Flames die slow waiting for our lives to expire

Thoughts are swimming in our mind almost to drown. 

Winter’s round may end today,

But is only as long as day and night delay. 

Frankenstein: Humanity

This is a revision of this blog: http://andiekohrsaplit.blogspot.com/2012/10/frankenstein-humanity-of-creature.html


Up to the point we have read in the novel, I've noticed that Victor fails to notice the humanity of his creation. When creating the monster, he took little thought of the outcome of the human nature laws. We are still being forced to call him "monster" for lack of a better name. However, the creation is in many ways not a monster, but human. We can assume that the creation possesses some human DNA, because he is constructed of human parts. Although a body does not necessarily make a human. A body is a body, but nothing else until human factors are placed. Language is one the most important factors to making a human.  Animals do have the ability to communicate, but only humans have developed oral communication. The creation does have the ability to create thoughts, and speak them, which is proving his human characteristic. If it wasn't for his appearance scaring away potential socialization, he would be able to communicate with other humans.
Thought is the next biggest attribute to human. The ability to think, form intelligent ideas and problem solving are crucial to humanity. The creation is able to think through problems and solve them. He understands the ideas of justice, alienation, and rights. Although his rationality fails at times, and he does not choose the right way to solve things, his thought process allows him to produce human ideas. 
Lastly, I believe our emotions make humanity. The creation feels sadness for the cottagers, and also excitement for the cottagers when Safie comes home. The creation expresses the emotion he is feeling to Victor about his loneliness, and the pain he his suffering. 

We can gather from the novel that a body is not a human nor a monster. A human is only something that produces human capabilities. And from the beginning, Victor judges the creation as a monster, even though it is Victors own fault. The  human processes the creation does allow us understand the essentials it takes to being a human, and that the monster should not have been automatically given the name monster when in several ways he is a human.